The Role of Models and Computation in Process Development

Models are a vital part of process development, and are often employed in a number of important process development steps, including scale up, cost estimating, process optimization and energy integration, and control strategy development and testing. Models may be implicit in the computations used in process development, or can be explicitly constructed for purpose. They may also take a number of forms, like kinetic expressions, steady-state process simulations, dynamic models of unit operations or processes, or CFD models for mixing and heat transfer. This session will focus on practical applications of modeling and computation used in process development.