PEC12-25 CAPEC-PROCESS Industrial Consortium ... - DTU Orbit
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4.4.2 SustainPro<br />
SustainPro is an EXCEL based software, which provides options for retrofit analysis and<br />
performance analysis of a given process. A new version is now available with more<br />
automated steps. The objective is to perform sustainable process design through SustainPro.<br />
As highlighted in Fig 4.5b, the inputs to SustainPro are the mass and the energy balance<br />
data that can be collected either from the plant or from process simulations. To perform the<br />
retrofit analysis, SustainPro also requires as input, several cost related data (the prices for<br />
utilities, the prices for chemicals, etc.). SustainPro is able to read the mass and the energy<br />
balance from an EXCEL file generated by a commercial simulator. The EXCEL interface<br />
guides the user through the steps of the work-flow (solution steps). After applying all the<br />
steps SustainPro gives as output for the retrofit analysis, a new design alternative<br />
suggestion for improving the process being investigated. When the software is used for<br />
performance analysis, the output provides the calculated values of the sustainability metrics<br />
and the safety indices. As it can be seen from Fig 4.5b, the two options can be combined,<br />
which means that they complement each other. After applying the retrofit analysis, the<br />
performance analysis is performed and compared with the base case design.<br />
Figure 4.5b: Overview of the main features of SustainPro<br />
4.4.3 Virtual Product-Process Design Lab<br />
The idea behind the virtual product-process design lab is the following: instead of doing the<br />
experiments needed to search for a product and its process to manufacture it, the<br />
engineer/scientist performs virtual experiments, through the vPPD-lab software. The<br />
software therefore contains a large knowledge base of data (of chemicals, of solvents, of<br />
plants, of microcapsule devices, etc.); a large collection of models (models for property<br />
prediction, models for controlled release, models for mixing, etc.); of design algorithms<br />
(methods for formulation design, methods for molecule design, methods for polymer<br />
design, methods for process flowsheet synthesis, etc); other tools (property prediction<br />
software; model generation software; equipment design software; design of experiments<br />
software, etc.). All of the above are organized through a framework for efficient<br />
management of the complexity. Figure 4.4c gives an overview of the main features of the<br />
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