Industrial visit as a replacement of a lab exercise for Modern Chemical Process Technologies course

Description:

The course of Modern Chemical Process Technologies (MCPT) aims to give the students a comprehensive understanding of modern highly efficient chemical process technologies and provide in-depth knowledge on key topics within design and scale-up of chemical processes. The course has a focus on process simulations, process integration, process intensification and optimization.
Students in this course are required to design a highly efficient chemical process and make an assessment of it (group design project running throughout the semester). The activity proposed in this learning design is an industrial visit as a replacement of a lab exercise. It aims to enhance the students understanding on how the designs are eventually scaled up and implemented in practice as well as to show how complicated they can be. After this, students will have put all course curriculum into context (from basic process design by linking all necessary unit operations together, integrating them to take advantage of their synergies, intensifying and optimizing, safety and environmental issues to economic considerations).