Process Intensification

Jan Harmsen; Maarten Verkerk

Published by De Gruyter 2020

Process Intensification

Breakthrough in Design, Industrial Innovation Practices, and Education

Jan Harmsen and Maarten Verkerk

In the series De Gruyter Textbook

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110657357

Overview
Contents

About this book

Process Intensification is a comprehensive textbook and treats the theory of process intensification design, and all innovation steps from idea generation to commercial implementation, and all focused on contributing to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. This book covers the ‘hard’ elements of design, modelling, and experimental validations and the ‘soft’ elements, values of engineers, interests of stakeholders and beliefs of society.

Process Intensification (PI) provides a novel way of designing and developing which creates value for all stakeholders.
Students and educators will benefit from the numerous case studies of the theory of PI being put into industrial practice.

Author information

Jan Harmsen is currently the Director of Harmsen Consultancy BV (founded in 2010) after a 33-year career at Shell, where he obtained his industrial experience in research, development, design, start-up, operation and de-bottlenecking of chemical processes. Hence, he knows from experience how to innovate, i.e. to get from idea to commercialisation in an effective and efficient way.His experience in chemical process technology as well as biotechnology, is what gives Jan Harmsen a unique approach in process design; knowledge of both these fields help to evaluate the most sustainable processes in industrial technology.
Current positions and functions:
– Independent Consultant Sustainable Process Innovation
– former Teacher Sustainable Design at Groningen University and Delft University of Technology.- current Teacher Sustainable Design at Delft University of Technology. – Editor of the Elsevier Journal of Chemical Engineering, Processing, Process Intensification
– Editor of the Open Springer Journal of Energy, Sustainability and Society
– President of the Dutch Process Technologists Society (Nederlandse vereniging van ProcesTechnologen)
Clients include: AKZONOBEL, Corbion, Det Norske Veritas, DSM, ECN, Flowid, FrieslandCampina, Hogeschool Utrecht, Huntsman, ISPT, University of Groningen, TMC Chemical, TU Delft, TU Einhoven, ZETON.

Maarten Verkerk (1953) is extraordinary professor of Reformational Philosophy. He studied chemistry and theoretical physics in Utrecht (1977) and received his PhD in technical sciences at the Technical University Twente (1982). He was a senior researcher at the Research Laboratory of Philips (1982-1986). In the period 1986-2002 he was manager in the industrial area (development, manufacturing) in The Netherlands, Germany and Taiwan. In the period 2003-2007 he was division manager and director of a psychiatric hospital. In 2004 he received a second PhD at the University Maastricht. The title of this thesis was Trust and Power on the Shop Floor. An ethnographical, ethical, and philosophical study on responsible behaviour in industrial organizations. The research interests of Maarten Verkerk include: feminism, responsibility processes in industrial organizations, change management, ethics of technology, ethics of management and organization, and innovation in health care.

Prof. Verkerk also holds a chair of Reformational Philosophy at the University Maastricht. Besides that he is director of an innovation network in health care (VitaValley).

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Authors’ Biographies Publicly Available Download PDF	XV
1 Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part A: Theory
2 Process intensification design Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	5
3 The role of sustainable development goals Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
4 Values, interests, and beliefs – three perspectives on industrial innovation practices Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
5 Multidisciplinary assessment – integrating different knowledge types Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
Part B: Application of theory: guidelines and methods
6 Discovery stage Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
7 Concept stage Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
8 Feasibility stage Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
9 Development stage Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
10 Engineering procurement and construction (EPC) stage Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
11 Start-up and normal operation stage Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Part C: Industrial practice cases
12 Summary PI industrial practices Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
13 Rotating cone reactor biomass pyrolysis process Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
14 Eastman chemical methyl acetate multifunctional integration Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	152
15 Shell OMEGA only monoethylene glycol advanced process Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
16 Intensified ethanol production by cyclic distillation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
17 Pharmaceuticals case Jan Harmsen, Maarten Verkerk and Koiranen Tuomas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
Part D: Educating PI – academic and industrial
18 Process intensification education BSc courses Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
19 Industrial sustainable intensified process innovation training Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Appendix 1 Pharma case: production increase by combined evaporation crystallization and cooling crystallization Jan Harmsen, Maarten Verkerk and Koiranen Tuomas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Process designers and developers in the process industries; postgraduate students and educators in Chemical Engineering.
Pages
- Front matter: 18
- Main content: 219
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 9
- Coloured Illustrations: 9
- Tables: 8
Keywords: Process Engineering; Industrial Chemistry; Industrial Design

eBook

Published: July 20, 2020
ISBN: 9783110657357

Paperback

Published: July 20, 2020
ISBN: 9783110657340