INTINT: Intelligent column internals for reactive separations

• Research unit: EU RFP
• Project number: 99.0724

Key words (English)

Reactive separation; column internals; CFD; process simulation;
Economic Aspects; Environmental Protection; Industrial Manufacture; Innovation; Technology Transfer; Safety

Alternative project number (English)

EU project number: G1RD-1999-00048

Research programs (English)

EU-programme: 5. Frame Research Programme - 1.3.1 Innovative products, processes and organization

Short description (English)

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Partners and International Organizations (English)

Coordinator: Universität Dortmund ()D)

Abstract (English)

Processes combining reaction and separation into a single, integrated operation become ever more attractive for chemical, pharmaceutical and related industries. Such reactive separations show several important advantages like energy and capital cost reduction, increase of reaction yield and reduction of waste emission. Both feasibility and efficiency of reactive separation operations are predetermined by a correct choice of the column internals. Traditional design of reactive separations is ultimately linked with internals offered to the market by suppliers. However, these internals are far short of optimum and cannot provide optimal process functioning. The proposal is aimed at the creation of a principally novel methodology for the design of reactive separations. This methodology together with the relevant software tools and experimental techniques establishes a new relation suppliers-end user, which enables process optimisation based on the development of new 'intelligent', 'tailor-made' column internals. This is an active way by which a column design approaches from both structural operational points of view.

References in databases (English)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
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Swiss Project-Number: 99.0724