Intensification Fundamentals
- Introduction to Process Intensification
- Integrating Process Steps
- Moving from Batch to Continuous Processes
- Challenges of Process Intensification
- Process Modifications
Design & systems · Years 3–4
Process Intensification & Integration for chemical engineers
A course on process intensification and integration, covering enhanced transport, mass targeting, and direct recycle networks with pinch technology.
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The subject
What Process Intensification & Integration covers
This course covers process intensification and integration as methodologies for enhancing processes and achieving performance targets. It begins with the definition and benefits of process intensification, enhanced transport processes, the integration of process steps, the move from batch to continuous operation, and the associated challenges. Mass targeting is then developed through stoichiometric targeting and mass integration, including targeting for minimum waste discharge and maximum product yield. The course concludes with direct recycle networks in the form of sink and source methodologies, covering the selection of sources and sinks, sink and source composite curves, the design rules of material pinch technology, impure fresh scenarios, process modifications and the source-sink mapping diagram.
What you’ll be able to do
- Identify the 1970s origin of process intensification concepts
- Explain how fresh sources may be replaced by equivalent recycle
- Define benchmarking as determining a standard of excellence for process performance
- Identify the pinch point distinguishing the two zones
- Define recycle as the use of a process stream in a process sink
- Identify heat and mass transfer coefficients and available area as controls on transport rate
The lessons
Every lesson, theme by theme
18 lessons in 6 themes, pitched at Years 3–4. Your year decides what comes first, never what you can open.
Sources & Sinks
- Selection of Sources & Sinks
- Sink & Soruce Composite Curve
- Source-Sink Mapping Diagram
Mass Integration & Targeting
- Introduction to Mass Targeting
- Mass Integration Targeting
- Targeting for Minimum Waste Discharge
Pinch Technology
- Design Rules Material Pinch Technology
Direct Recycle Networks
- Introduction to Direct Recycle Networks
- Imputre Fresh Scenario
More in Process Intensification & Integration
- Enhanced Transport Processes
- Benefits of Process Intensification
- Stoichiometric Targeting
- Targeting for Maximum Product Yield
Before you start
What it builds on
How you’ll learn it
Process Intensification & Integration, at your pace
Video lessons
18 lessons and 20 videos, each with what you’ll be able to do by the end.
Practice, marked as you go
10 practice questions, marked the moment you answer, with hints when you’re stuck. Step-by-step worked solutions come with Core.
CERA, when it doesn’t click
Ask CERA to explain any idea in Process Intensification & Integration another way, or to test you on it. Every day, on every plan.
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