After successful completion of the course, students are able to:

- understand the conceptional and computational aspects of the systematic methods in process design.

- apply heuristics together with graphical and analytical methods to develop optimal designs.

- systematically deal with process systems of diverse scale and complexity (unit operations, production lines and plants, industrial clusters etc.).

• Process Synthesis and Analysis: Formulation of the design problem and its hierarchival structure, continuous vs. batch operation, retrofit- vs grassrootdesign, the role of modelling, sumulation and flowsheeting, decomposition/aggregation of process systems and their modelling, examples of "unit operation" models (e.g., flash, distillation, reactors,...)

• Process Assessment: Sizing and cost analysis, environmental aspects (e.g., LCA, SHE hazard- and risk-analysis), flexibility analysis

• Process Integration: Heat-, Heant and Power-, Mass-integration and design of the correspnding networks (HEN and MEN design)

• Reactor networks: Introduction in graphical methods
  

• Distillation ”Sequencing”  and Integration

• Batch Processes: Examples of batch operation for "unti operations" (e.g., reactors, distillation, crystallisation, filtrationBeispiele von Batchbetrieb für Reaktoren, Destillation, Kristallisation, Filtration, „Multiproduct and Multipurpose“ plants, and „Scheduling“ concepts

The contents are taught through lectures, calculation examples and processing of various tasks and questions.

Written through exercises at home during the course, one exam in the middle and one at the end of the course, and one chance for repetition after the course.

Basic knowledge of Process- or Chemical-engineering