Objective
Intensified continuous processes are a key innovation of the last decade for the production of high quality, high value and customer-specific products at competitive prices in a sustainable fashion. To realize the potential of this technology, key steps must be made towards long-term stable, tightly controlled and fully automated production. The goal of the CONSENS project is to advance the continuous production of high-value products meeting high quality demands in flexible intensified continuous plants by introducing novel online sensing equipment and closed-loop control of the key product parameters. CONSENS will focus on flexible continuous plants but the results will be transferable also to large-scale continuous processes.
The research and development is driven by industrial case studies from three different areas, spanning the complete value chain of chemical production: complex organic synthesis, speciality polymers, and formulation of complex liquids.
Innovative PAT technology will be developed for online concentration measurements (mid-resolution process NMR), for the online non-invasive measurement of rheological properties of complex fluids, and for continuous measurements of fouling in tubular reactors. New model-based adaptive control schemes based on innovative PAT technology will be developed. The project results will be validated in industrial pilot plants for all three types of processes, including validation in production containers that have been developed in the F3 Factory project. Further, methods for sensor failure monitoring, control performance monitoring and engineering support for PAT-based solutions will be developed.
The exploitation of the new technologies will be facilitated by a tool for technology evaluation and economic impact assessment. A Cross-sectorial Advisory Board supports the transfer of PAT technologies and adaptive control to neighboring sectors of the European processing industry.
Fields of science
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensorsoptical sensors
- social sciencessociologyindustrial relationsautomation
- natural scienceschemical sciencespolymer sciences
- natural sciencesphysical sciencesopticsspectroscopyabsorption spectroscopy
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementemployment
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Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation action
Coordinator
51373 Leverkusen
Germany
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Participants (14)
92700 Colombes
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44227 Dortmund
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2595 DA Den Haag
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1853 Strombeek Bever
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65929 Frankfurt Am Main
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51373 Leverkusen
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67063 Ludwigshafen Am Rhein
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12205 Berlin
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09124 Cagliari
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47058 Duisburg
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69003 Lyon
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06560 Sophia Antipolis Valbonne
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
69730 Genay
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47877 Willich
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.