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and retrofit of processes for changes in feed materials while focusing on energy, water and
environmental issues will need special attention.”
6.2 Future Plans
Based on the above, CAPEC-PROCESS research collaboration will address the following
questions:
• How does one identify the chemicals and their synthesis routes that will help to meet
future economic demands, taking into account, also the questions of sustainability and
protection of the environment (eg., energy conservation and water resources)?
• How does one find their replacements for feedstocks and reagent as well as product and
the processes to manufacture the products? The sources for many of the raw materials
used, especially those derived from oil, gas, and some plants/animals continue to be
depleted and may soon be economically infeasible to use (eg., bio-refinery and green
chemistry).
• How to develop and provide the necessary models, methods and tools through which
the future problems can be addressed (eg., multiscale modelling &
integration/intensification)?
CAPEC and PROCESS plans to invest heavily in the following areas:
• Product-process modelling: Development of a generic computer aided modelling
framework through which product-process models of different forms and scale can be
generated/created with significantly less time and resources than current practice.
• Product-process design: Use of a multidisciplinary approach because the processproduct
knowledge (including data) will come from different sources and the
performance criteria, factors, etc., will involve other research groups (expertise). The
opportunity for CAPEC and PROCESS is that it can play the role of the “integrator” or
“glue”.
• Sustainable and greener process development: Develop systematic solution approaches
that combine methods and tools from different sources into problem specific flexible,
reliable and efficient systems.
More specifically, for CAPEC and PROCESS to meet the challenges for the future, the
following topics will have higher priority:
• computer aided frameworks for generation and use of multi-scale models (further
extension of the predictive-generic property-product–process models)
• methods for design of experiments to collect and analyze data (efficient use of resources
in data collection) and, verification by experiments (through collaboration between
CAPEC and PROCESS)
• methods & tools for process-product monitoring/control systems (and their design)
• sustainable process-product development (such as, hybrid processes, green chemistry,
process intensification)
• systematic methods for product discovery (further extension of computer aided
molecular and mixture design)
• evaluation of alternative processes for sustainability, retrofit and process modification
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