Workshop Title: Optimal Process Intensification using SPICE: A Tool for Systematic Process Design and Discovery
Instructor: Dr. Faruque Hasan, Texas A&M University
Overview: Process intensification is a design technique that can drastically reduce the size, cost, energy consumption, waste and emission in a chemical process. In this workshop, we will discuss systematic intensification techniques and provide an overview of SPICE (Synthesis and Process Intensification of Chemical Enterprises), which is a process design, optimization and technoeconomic analysis (TEA) software prototype. SPICE enables “systematic innovation”, which is to say that process designers and process engineers now can systematically discover out-of-the-box design/retrofitting solutions without exhaustively enumerating all plausible alternatives. SPICE provides a seamless transition from the phenomena-scale to the task/equipment-scale to the flowsheet-scale, and allows model-based screening and optimization of potentially advantageous intensification pathways that current designs do not yet support.