Objective Processes combining reaction and separation into a single, integrated operation become ever more attractive for chemical, pharmaceutical and related industries. Such reactive separations show several important advantages like energy and capital cost reduction, increase of reaction yield and reduction of waste emission. Both feasibility and efficiency of reactive separation operations are predetermined by a correct choice of the column internals. Traditional design of reactive separations is ultimately linked with internals offered to the market by suppliers. However, these internals are far short of optimum and cannot provide optimal process functioning. The proposal is aimed at the creation of a principally novel methodology for the design of reactive separations. This methodology together with the relevant software tools and experimental techniques establishes a new relation suppliers-end user which enables process optimisation based on the development of new "intelligent", "tailor-made" column internals. This is an active way by which a column design approaches from both structural operational points of view.-Integrated Design System consisting of an expert system (ADVISER), a CFD tool (CFX-INTINT) and a process simulator (PROFILER) for homogeneously and heterogeneously catalysed reactive distillation and stripping*ADVISER including the case-based selector, GUI, the database of the accepted solutions (software code) and manual-PROFILER including the detailed rate-based model, model library for homogeneously and heterogeneously catalysed processes (software code) and manual-CFX-INTINT including GUI, grid generator, modelling capabilities for different internals geometries with relevant post-processing facilities (software code) and manual-Model library, database and input files for physicochemical properties and transport coefficients of the test systems (software code and description)-Experimental results on system-related model parameters (VLE, reaction kinetics) for five chemical systems-Experimental results on hydraulic and mass-transfer parameters for all catalytic internals-Manufactured column internals and their modifications-Commissioned experimental set-ups for reactive stripping and reactive distillation and pilot plant experiments for different systems in different equipment, for known and modified geometry-Methodology combining four steps, namely the pre-selection of the relevant internals class by ADVISER, a preliminary sensitivity study by PROFILER, the generation of new internals and their investigation (virtual experiments) by CFX-INTINT, and the completing analysis of the reactive separation unit by PROFILER-Demonstration of a number of industrial applications at pilot scale and establishment of standardised experimental techniques for the parameter estimation and scale-up-Experimental validation of PROFILER by the reactive distillation and reactive stripping experiments-Web pages summarising the results of the project Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwarenatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdatabasesnatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligenceexpert systemsengineering and technologychemical engineeringseparation technologiesdistillationnatural sciencesmathematicspure mathematicsgeometry Programme(s) FP5-GROWTH - Programme for research technological development and demonstration on "Competitive and sustainable growth 1998-2002" Topic(s) 1.1.3.-1. - Key Action Innovative Products, Processes and Organisation Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator N/A Address See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (12) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all AEA TECHNOLOGY GMBH Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Staudenfeldweg 12 83624 Otterfing See on map BASF AG Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Carl-bosch-straße 38 67063 Ludwigshafen See on map DSM RESEARCH B.V. Netherlands EU contribution € 0,00 Address 1,koestraat 3 6167 RA Geleen See on map INSTITUT DES SCIENCES ORGANIQUES DE SYNTHESE 'BLACHOWNIA' Poland EU contribution € 0,00 Address Energetykow 9 47 225 Kedzierzyn kozle See on map INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING - POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Poland EU contribution € 0,00 Address Baltycka 5 44 100 Gliwice See on map JULIUS MONTZ GMBH Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Hofstrasse 82 40723 Hilden See on map LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Finland EU contribution € 0,00 Address Skinnarilankatu 34 53851 Lappeenranta See on map OSRODEK BADAWCZO ROZWOJOWY NATIONAL REFINERY Poland EU contribution € 0,00 Address Chemikow 5 09-411 Plock See on map POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST Romania EU contribution € 0,00 Address Polizu street, building a, room a134 78126 Bucuresti See on map S.C. SOCIETATEA NATIONALA A PETROLULUI 'PETROM' Romania EU contribution € 0,00 Address Calea victoriei 109 70176 Bucuresti See on map SULZER AG Switzerland EU contribution € 0,00 Address Eduard-steiner str. 7 8401 Winterthur See on map University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address Sackville street M60 1QD Manchester See on map
