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Design of Sustainable Process, Products, and Systems

1. Contact details

Organisation University of Groningen
Name Prof. ir G.J. Harmsen and Dr ir G.H. Jonker
Address (1) Chair Sustainable Chemical Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering
Address (2) Nijenborgh 4
City Groningen
Zip Code 9747 AG
Country Netherlands
Telephone +31 50 3634484 / +31 50 3634282
E-mail Jan.harmsen@shell.com
g.j.harmsen@rug.nl
g.h.jonker@rug.nl

2. Details of activity

Status Current activity
Title of project/activity Design of Sustainable Process, Products, and Systems
Target audience

PhD students and industrial participants from chemical engineering and related disciplines.

Brief synopsis of activity

A course aimed at teaching students how to design processes, products and systems with sustainable development goals and constraints. This is achieved through a series of group exercises, lectures and workshops.

Detailed description

The purpose of this course is to learn to design processes, products and systems with sustainable development goals and constraints. In the course, PhD students design in project groups a chemical industrial plant, based on principles of sustainability (triple P), and make use of life cycle analysis, renewable resources, etc, taking into account environmental societal and economic criteria. Experts introduce main topics on sustainability and technologies in lectures and workshops. The course week is finished with group presentations of designs with assessments on Triple P sustainability.

Funding

Netherlands Research School in Process Technology OSPT

Open to collaboration Yes

3. Future Collaborations

Areas of interest

Development of new sustainability courses and rapid sustainable analysis methods for students in science and engineering studies.