Abstract
Achieving the United Nations sustainable development goals requires industry and society to develop tools and processes that work at all scales, enabling goods delivery, services, and technology to large conglomerates and remote regions. Process Intensification (PI) is a technological advance that promises to deliver means to reach these goals, but higher education has yet to totally embrace the program. Here, we present practical examples on how to better teach the principles of PI in the context of the Bloom's taxonomy and summarise the current industrial use and the future demands for PI, as a continuation of the topics discussed in Part 1. In the appendices, we provide details on the existing PI courses around the world, as well as teaching activities that are showcased during these courses to aid students’ lifelong learning. The increasing number of successful commercial cases of PI highlight the importance of PI education for both students in academia and industrial staff.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 15-24 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Education for Chemical Engineers |
Volume | 32 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jul 2020 |
Funding
DFR acknowledges support by The Netherlands Centre for Multiscale Catalytic Energy Conversion (MCEC) , an NWO Gravitation programme funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science of the government of The Netherlands . The participation by Robert Weber in the workshop and this report was supported by Laboratory Directed Research and Development funding at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) . PNNL is a multiprogram national laboratory operated for the US Department of Energy by Battelle under contract DE-AC05-76RL01830 NA acknowledges the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - TRR 63 "Integrierte Chemische Prozesse in flüssigen Mehrphasensystemen" (Teilprojekt A10) - 56091768. The authors thank the Lorentz Centre for hosting this workshop (Educating on Process Intensification) and all attendees of the workshop for their invaluable input, vision for process intensification technologies, and candid discussions. We are also grateful to other participants who voluntarily are not co-authors of this manuscript: M. Goes (TKI Chemie), P. Huizenga (Shell), J.P. Gueneau de Mussy (KU Leuven), C. Picioreanu (TU Delft), E. Schaer (Univ. Lorraine), Mark van de Ven (National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), The Netherlands). The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the position of any of their funding agencies. We acknowledge the sponsors of the Lorentz’ workshop on “Educating in PI”: The MESA+Institute of the University of Twente, Sonics and Materials (USA) and the PIN-NL Dutch Process Intensification Network. DFR acknowledges support by The Netherlands Centre for Multiscale Catalytic Energy Conversion (MCEC), an NWO Gravitation programme funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science of the government of The Netherlands. NA acknowledges the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - TRR 63 “Integrierte Chemische Prozesse in flüssigen Mehrphasensystemen” (Teilprojekt A10) - 56091768. The participation by Robert Weber in the workshop and this report was supported by Laboratory Directed Research and Development funding at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). PNNL is a multiprogram national laboratory operated for the US Department of Energy by Battelle under contract DE-AC05-76RL01830, The views and opinions of the author(s) expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of the United States Government or any agency thereof. Neither the United States Government nor any agency thereof, nor any of their employees, makes any warranty, expressed or implied, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed, or represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights.
Funders | Funder number |
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MCEC | |
Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu | |
Netherlands Center for Multiscale Catalytic Energy Conversion | |
U.S. Department of Energy | |
Battelle | DE-AC05-76RL01830 |
Shell | |
Laboratory Directed Research and Development | |
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | |
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft | 56091768 |
University of Twente | |
Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap | |
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek | |
Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu |
Keywords
- Chemical engineering
- Education challenge
- Entrepreneurship
- Industry challenge
- Pedagogy
- Process design
- Process Intensification
- Sustainability