Process Systems Engineering | PSE
Process Systems Engineering (PSE) section comprises a professional team dedicated to advanced computational research, with a collective focus on advancing the PSE field to bring new insights and sustainable developments, while contributing significantly to the field of chemical engineering and reinforcing TU Delft's position as a leader in chemical engineering research and education.
PSE is all about making educated decision at all size and time scales, implying out-of-the-box thinking and design going from molecule to enterprise level, having a sound basis in natural sciences with mathematical rigor. The PSE section aims to create viable solutions for novel sustainable chemical processes that are low-carbon, energy efficient and cost effective. Here is a partial list of research topics that we work on, with applications in many areas such as bio-based chemicals/fuels, chemical recycling, carbon capture and utilisation, thermo/bio/electro-chemical conversion, and others:
- PSE methods and tools for informed decision making
- Process modeling and simulation, surrogate modeling
- Process synthesis and conceptual process design
- Process dynamics and plantwide control
- Process optimization and optimization techniques
- Techno-economic assessment
- Value chain analysis, and uncertainty analysis
- Life cycle assessment (LCA), Ex-ante LCA, social-LCA
- Machine learning, data science, artificial intelligence
- Molecular property prediction
- Process intensification for reaction and separation systems
- Product and process design methodology
- Design thinking and design project execution
PSE section consists of several Principal Investigators: Prof. Anton A. Kiss, Prof. Andre de Haan, Prof. Andrea Ramirez Ramirez, Dr. Ana Somoza Tornos, Dr. Artur Schweidtmann, Ir. Pieter Swinkels (Affiliated), Dr. Farzad Mousazadeh (Affiliated), Dr. John Posada (Affiliated) and Em.prof. Johan Grievink (Affiliated)