Process TU Delft

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Delft Skyline ca. 1660 (J. Vermeer)

Process Technology

@ TU Delft

Yesterday

Today

Tomorrow

Sef Heijnen

Michiel Kreutzer

Rob Mudde

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Founded in 1842 by King William II.

Oldest and largest University of

Technology in the Netherlands.

8 faculties offer 14 Bachelor’s programs

and 38 Master’s programs; the programs

offer comprehensive education and

research.

About TU Delft

Oldest and the largest Process

Technology community in Dutch

academia (14 full-time Chairs related

to Process Technology; >150 PhD’s)

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YESTERDAY:

long tradition and remarkable achievements in (bio)chemistry and

(bio)process technology

Jacobus Henricus van ‘t Hoff (first Nobel Prize in chemistry, 1901)

Outstanding alumni and

professors

Drik Willem van Krevelen

Hans Kramers Israël Waterman

Albert Jan Kluyver Martinus Willem Beijerinck

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4 www.process.tudelft.nl

• Important national and

international initiatives

• Kluyver Centre (genomics &

fermentation technology)

• BE-Basic & Bioprocess Pilot Facility

• European Process Intensification

Centre

• European Roadmap and Research

Agenda for Process Intensification

• Numerous prestigious

awards and research

grants

• High positions in world’s

rankings

(22

nd

_{in 2010)}

Energy Prize

Process Technology at TU Delft

TODAY:

quality

• Several members of Royal

Netherlands Academy of

Arts and Sciences

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TODAY

the world around us is changing at high pace

• Clear societal expectations concerning the challenges of the

future (energy, health, food & water, etc.) in solving of which

Process Technology plays an important role

• Increasing industrial needs (due to changing R&D models in

industry)

• PT graduates enter new sectors of industry – new topics & skills

need to be taught

• Industry invests heavily in R&D in fast developing regions of the

world which brings increasing competition from universities in

those regions

• Less students, less money, etc.

• To remain on top more focus in research and excellence in

research are needed

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Towards

TOMORROW:

Delft Skyline Debates

• Challenging visionary project with 75 top scientists and talented

scientists-to-be

• Aim: relevant scientific vision on long-term developments in the field of

process technology in general and process intensification in particular

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Special Issue:

Delft Skyline Debates

Special Issue:

Delft Skyline Debates

• Efficient technologies for worldwide clean water supply

• High-efficient decentralized electricity generation and

high capacity energy storage

• Low-cost small scale processing technologies for

production applications in various environments (e.g.

mass produced factories)

• Design, engineering and intensified production

technologies for recyclable (composite) materials

• Intensified fuel cell based systems (including biomass)

• Full control of the reaction pathways at molecular level

in chemical reactors

• Sustainable recovery of scarce elements

• Production of artificial organs

• Chemicals from biomass – integrated solution on

• Describes 10 of Key Technology Milestones for 2030

identified during the Delft Skyline Debates

• Contributing authors from Austria, Belgium, Denmark,

France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands,

Spain, South Korea, Switzerland, UK, USA

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Towards

TOMORROW:

TU Delft Process Technology Institute (DPTI)

The key: multidisciplinarity in research…

CHEMISTRY APPLIED PHYSICS BIOLOGY ELECTRONICS ENERGY TECHNOLOGY MATERIALS NANOTECHNOLOGY CATALYSIS PROCESS TECHNOLOGY AND MORE…

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Towards

TOMORROW:

TU Delft Process Technology Institute (DPTI)

10-16

10-10 10--6 10-4 10-2 100

102 _m

M o l ec u l ar p r o c e s se s

Catalyst/reaction processes, particles,

thin films _{Processing units}

Processing plant/site Hydrodynamics and

transport processes,

single- and multiphase systems

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Fundamental aims of DPTI

• increase the coherence and the internal collaborations

within Delft PT- community, both in research and education

• create

optimal conditions for every PT-scientist

at Delft

to develop his/her talents and to realize his/her personal

scientific ambitions

• drive the

education of excellent engineers and scientists

in the area of PT from BSc through MSc to Process Designer

and PhD

• improve the

international visibility and impact

of TU Delft

in the field of Process Technology to such a degree that it is

ranked in the world’s top 10 within the next 10 years

• increase the

relevance for and collaboration with the

industry

in terms of education and research

• ensure a

sustained financial health

of Process Technology

at TU Delft by creating a better access to the research

funding;

• intensify

constructive collaborations

with other

universities, research organizations and industry in NL and

abroad

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TU Delft Process Technology Institute at glance

Supervisory Board

Institute Director

International Program Committee

Process

Intensification

Research Area:

Process Technology for

Advanced Materials

Research Area:

Biochemical Process

Engineering

Education

Secretariat

Research Area:

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TU Delft Process Technology Institute at glance

Institute Director

Process

Intensification

Research Area:

Process Technology for

Advanced Materials

Research Area:

Biochemical Process

Engineering

Education

Secretariat

Research Area:

Participating Departments & Chairs

Jerry Westerweel Fluid Mechanics

Bendiks Jan Boersma Energy Technology

Geert Jan Witkamp Process Equipment

Dirk Roekaerts Reactive Flows & Explosions

Andrzej Stankiewicz Intensified Reaction and

Separation Systems

Thiijs Vlugt Engineering Thermodynamics

Process & Energy

Luuk van der Wielen Bioseparation Technology

Sef Heijnen Bioprocess Technology

Mark van Loosdrecht Environmental Technology

Biotechnology

Jan van Esch Self Assembling Systems

Bernard Dam Materials for Energy Conversion

and Storage

Chris Kleijn Rob Mudde

Harry van den Akker Transport Phenomena

Freek Kapteijn Catalysis Engineering

Michiel Kreutzer Process & Product Engineering

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TU Delft Process Technology Institute at glance

Institute Director

Process

Intensification

Research Area:

Process Technology for

Advanced Materials

Research Area:

Biochemical Process

Engineering

Education

Secretariat

Research Area:

Participating Departments & Chairs

Education

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Education

• expansion of job markets for chemical

& process engineers beyond the

traditional chemical process industries

• increased diversity of expectations with

regard to the skills of our

graduates (from basic design of

distillation column to thin layer

technology or product formulation)…

• new educational models are needed

• we want to give our graduates solid

knowledge of fundamentals together

with broad insights into the newest

developments

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TU Delft Process Technology Institute at glance

Institute Director

Process

Intensification

Research Area:

Biochemical Process

Engineering

Education

Secretariat

Research Area:

Participating Departments & Chairs

Research Area:

Process Technology for

Advanced Materials

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Process Technology for Advanced Materials

Novel methods and

devices for reactions and

separations in highly

viscous and rheologically

complex systems

continuous flow processing of complex materials drug delivery in-situ (by)product removal in highly viscous systems capsules, surfactants, polymer solutions

and melts

_{Polymer engineering;}

Rheology;

Supramolecular

Chemistry;

Physical Chemistry;

Spectroscopy;

Materials Science;

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Process Technology for Advanced Materials

Intensified processes for

tailored solid materials

crystallization of complex materials: proteins, pharma polymorphism optoelectronic materials (quantum dots) high-precision catalysts

Materials science;

Product engineering;

Physical Chemistry;

Nanotechnology;

Catalysis;

thin film technology

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Process Technology for Advanced Materials

Design, engineering and

intensified production of

formulated products

small-scale production, microplants drug delivery rational formulation of soft products integrated chemistry/design

approach

Materials Science

Food engineering

Physical chemistry

Pharmacology

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TU Delft Process Technology Institute at glance

Institute Director

Process

Intensification

Research Area:

Process Technology for

Advanced Materials

Research Area:

Education

Secretariat

Participating Departments & Chairs

Sef Heijnen

Biochemical Process

Engineering

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Biochemical Process Engineering

Multi-scale design of

cell factory-based

production systems

kinetic/thermodynamic models of metabolism and genetic regulation

scale-up pathway scouting

& engineering

design of fast

protocols for selection of efficient cell

factories

Cell Biology: Signaling,

Genetics;

Biophysics;

Microbiology;

Analytical Biotechnology;

Biocatalysis;

Non-linear dynamics;

mixed cultures

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Biochemical Process Engineering

Integrated systems for

chemicals and fuels from 2

nd

generation bio feedstocks

char-free biomass to fuels biorefineries integrating conversion with separation small-scale, economic systems for distributed

energy production

Catalysis;

Chemistry;

Energy technology;

Materials engineering;

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Biochemical Process Engineering

Intensified high cell

density processes

integrated Down Stream Processing biofuel cells tissue/organ engineering

large high-cell density fermentors with integrated cell retention/product phase separation

Cell biology;

Surface Chemistry;

Physical Chemistry;

Rheology;

Medicine;

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TU Delft Process Technology Institute at glance

Institute Director

Research Area:

Process Technology for

Advanced Materials

Biochemical Process

Engineering

Education

Secretariat

Research Area:

Participating Departments & Chairs

Process

Intensification

Research Area:

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Process Intensification

Ultrahigh interfaces for

energy & mass transfer

micro-/nano- droplets, bubbles & cavities high-density structured catalysts “capillary vein” microchannels and surfaces

Physics;

Physical chemistry;

Materials science;

Condensed matter physics

Nanoscience

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Process Intensification

via energy-material-

medium interaction

energy for control

of molecular interactions

light

emitting/absorbing surfaces

photons and electrons in catalysis (light, microwaves, electrocatalysis);

Applied physics;

Physical chemistry;

Reaction dynamics;

Material science;

Electronics;

Energy Technology

Spectroscopy

special materials in equipment design

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Process Intensification

Intensified methods and

devices for information

generation

Bits about molecules (instead of molecules) (micro/nano) sensors and measuring devices high-speed analysis of complex biomolecular mixtures (genomics, proteomics, etc.)

Biomolecular engineering;

Biomedical engineering;

Bioanalysis;

Material sciences;

Microelectronics;

Informatics;

Genetics;

Microbiology;

Analytical Chemistry

advanced biomedical devices

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TU Delft Process Technology Institute at glance

Institute Director

Process

Intensification

Research Area:

Process Technology for

Advanced Materials

Research Area:

Biochemical Process

Engineering

Education

Secretariat

Research Area:

Participating Departments & Chairs

Secretariat

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TU Delft Process Technology Institute at glance

Institute Director

Process

Intensification

Research Area:

Process Technology for

Advanced Materials

Research Area:

Biochemical Process

Engineering

Education

Secretariat

Research Area:

Participating Departments & Chairs

Institute Director

Andrzej Stankiewicz

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TU Delft Process Technology Institute at glance

Institute Director

Process

Intensification

Research Area:

Process Technology for

Advanced Materials

Research Area:

Biochemical Process

Engineering

Education

Secretariat

Research Area:

Participating Departments & Chairs

(Deans and Department

Chairmen of the Faculties and Departments involved)

Chairman: Tim van der Hagen

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TU Delft Process Technology Institute at glance

Institute Director

Process

Intensification

Research Area:

Process Technology for

Advanced Materials

Research Area:

Biochemical Process

Engineering

Education

Secretariat

Research Area:

Participating Departments & Chairs

International Program Committee Chairman: Harry van den Akker

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TU Delft Process Technology Institute at glance

Institute Director

Process

Intensification

Research Area:

Process Technology for

Advanced Materials

Research Area:

Biochemical Process

Engineering

Education

Secretariat

Research Area:

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The institute will ultimately operate at two

locations on the TUD campus and will have two

shared experimental facilities (including the

“macrolab” for pilot plants and large-scale

equipment)

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• Distinguished lectures

• Workshops & seminars

• Symposia

• External networking events

• Advanced courses

• Newsletter

• Living website

And further…

…but above all

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Many thanks to our industrial partners for their invaluable

consultations in the preparatory stage of the institute

Special thanks Kim Huijpen and Frans Spits

for their invaluable help

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Special thanks to

for providing a master class on “Factory of the Future”

for TU Delft students

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• Brian Tighe

• George Krintiras

• Arjan Heeres

• Andrea Radu

• Jorge Gascon

• Nasim Hooshyar

• Rienk Eelkema

Many thanks to the Organizing

Committee of the conference

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• Ruud van Ommen

• Nienke van Bemmel

• Giorgos Stefanidis

• Maria Cuellar Soares

• Samir Kulkarni

…and to the Communication Team of the

Institute

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