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

Larissa P Cunico (LACU)
CAPEC
Marina Fedorova (MFAD)
CAPEC
Modelling of phase equilibria and related properties of
mixtures involving lipids
The objective of this project is to perform a systematic
numerical analysis to determine the needs of phase equilibria
and related properties in the production of edible oils, biodiesel
and other oleochemicals. The available data in literature will be
analyzed for consistency and then used to develop/adopt the
most appropriate models, for example, group-contribution
combined with atom connectivity based models. For systems
that are not in literature, some experimental work will be
conducted in UNICAMP – Department artment of Chemical
Engineering in Brazil, where the necessary facilities exist. These
developed predictive models will be used to determine the
sensitivity of design variables with respect to uuncertainties
in the
predicted properties. The application of the he developed properties
models will be illustrated through case studies involving
different lipid compound processing steps. Then, the obtained
results will be implemented in process simulation software and
will be applied on industrial cases from Alfa Lav Laval Copenhagen
A/S as one of the means to validate the models.
Supervisors: RaG, Prof R. Cerriani, Dr. B Sarup
Start: 1-3-2012; End: 28-2-2015
Research areas: A, F
Systematic methods and tools for computer aided modelling
Models play an important role of increasing importance in
design and analysis of chemicals/bio-chemicals chemicals based products
and the processes that manufacture them because of the
increasing use of computer-aided aided methods and tools. The
advantage of using these model-based based methods and tools is that
they have the potential to reduce the number of experiments,
which can be expensive and time consuming. As the required
models may be complex and require multiple time and/or
lengths scales, their development and app application for productprocess
design is not trivial. Therefore, the modelling
framework can contribute by reducing the time and resources
needed for model development and application, thereby
reducing the overall time and cost for product product-process
development
The objective of this project is to develop methods and tools that
will allow systematic development of models and their solution
using a modelling framework, which consists of a model
generation tool, a model analysis-solution solution tool and templates for
solving ving different modelling problems. Through a number of
modelling case studies, the novel features of the modelling
framework will be illustrated.
Supervisors: RaG, GSI
Start: 1-4-2012; End: 31-3-2015
Research areas: B, E, F
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