Advances in chemical product design

Chemical Product and Process Design

Chemical Product and Process Design Education

This paper discusses approaches for providing chemical engineering students a contemporary experience in product and process design. Current trends and issues in chemical engineering education are reviewed, as well as the interaction between business decision-making and product and process design. Then, the Stage-Gate product development process is examined as utilized by product and process en...

Chemical product design: challenges and opportunities

This paper highlights for a class of chemical products, the design process, their design with respect to the important issues, the need for appropriate tools and finally, lists some of the challenges and opportunities for the process systems engineering (PSE)/computer-aided process engineering (CAPE) community. The chemical products considered belong to the following types: chemical/biochemical...

Integrated Chemical Product-Process Design: CAPE Perspectives

In chemical product design, we try to find a (chemical) product that exhibits certain desirable or specified behaviour. This can be a single chemical, a mixture, or a formulation, where an additive is added to the original chemical product (molecule or mixture) to significantly enhance its desirable functional properties. Examples of chemical products, such as functional chemicals (solvents, re...

An Introduction to Chemical Product Design

T his paper derives from an undergraduate course in chemical product design which we ®rst taught in 1998/9 and are still in the process of developing. We are in the process of writing a text book to accompany such courses. We explain our approach to chemical product design and why the subject is important. The distinctive features of product design (particularly in contrast to process design, a...