RAPID

There is no current commercial software available that allows for novel conceptual process designs without requesting equipment and flowsheet structures beforehand, and at the same time, provides a specialized PI model library. The tools developed in academia either disregard process intensification or are incapable of encompassing the whole roadmap required for an operable process design. Hence, the resultant design procedures, software prototype, and model library generated within this program will be unique with its holistic view on process intensification via integrating the process synthesis, design, optimization, and control tasks in a single software platform. The application showcase on thermal decomposition of methane will provide a commercially promising pathway for large-scale production of high-quality carbon materials. SYNOPSIS will contribute to bridging the gap between lab scale and commercial application of methane pyrolytic conversion by combining process synthesis, reaction engineering, and heat management. In doing so, it will demonstrate a generic process for employing PI for challenges across industry.