PEC12-25 CAPEC-PROCESS Industrial Consortium ... - DTU Orbit

• In the pharmaceutical sector several projects (BIONEXGEN, ENG-BIO, AMBIOCAS
and BIOTRANS) sustain the development of the next generation of enzyme based
methods for the synthesis of optically pure molecules. These EC-funded projects are
with many industrial and academic partners. The Center is also involved in a 5-year
project with Lundbeck aiming at moving from batch towards continuous production,
Specifically on the development of microbioreactors, PROCESS has initiated a project
of the Free Research Council – Technology and Production Sciences (FTP) (Novel
greener and lean processes using integrated microfactories).
• A new FP7 project (BIOINTENSE) is in the negotiation phase to start in mid 2012
focused on microscale approached to the rapid development of biocatalytic processes.
PROCESS are the project coordinators.
• PROCESS has joined the SANITAS project, an EC-funded project (ITN) with focus on
the development of the next generation of modelling and simulation tools for
performance evaluation of wastewater treatment plants.
The vision of the Center for Process Engineering and Technology is to provide the
necessary support to enable the next-generation of processes to be implemented in industry.
In this way the new developments in biotechnology, catalysis and separation science
alongside process engineering can be translated into industrial practice. New processes with
reduced waste, high efficiency and based on all the principles of sustainability can be
developed which will help develop the European industrial sector in the production of
chemicals, bio-based materials and chemicals, as well as pharmaceuticals.
1.3 CAPEC-PROCESS Activities
While maintaining their unique center activities, it has been decided to join forces on a set
of research topics of mutual interest within the pharmaceutical, agrochemical and bio &
food industrial sectors. The interaction between the CAPEC and PROCESS centers at the
level of the industrial consortium is illustrated through Figure 1.2. For the industrial
consortium, the CAPEC-PROCESS collaboration should result in increased dataknowledge
on chemicals based products and their processes, design of the product-process,
control-monitoring of the product-process, and, development of more sustainable and
“greener” products-processes. The two centers tackle these problems from two different
approaches: CAPEC employs a model-based systems approach that also leads to computeraided
tools, while, PROCESS employs a systematic experiment/data based process
understanding to perform the necessary process analysis and evaluation. The CAPEC-
PROCESS collaboration therefore is able to generate methods and tools that are not only
able to provide new innovative product-process designs but can also provide fundamental
understanding, analysis and evaluation of the design problem. This is essential for future
implementation of these processes in industry.
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