The new inspirational OSPT courses
Spring 2017
The Research School in Process Technology OSPT (Onderzoekschool Procestechnologie) is an interuniversity school in the Netherlands in the area of Chemical Engineering and Process Technology. OSPT is part of the Innovation Academy of ISPT, the Institute for Sustainable Process Technology. Every year, the collaborating research group of the five universities, organizes courses and research activities to inspire promising young engineers and to sustain excellence in chemistry. Two courses will be organized in spring 2017.
On April 3rd until the 7th Prof. dr. ir. Hans Kuipers TU Eindhoven will be presenting the course 'Numerical Methods for Chemical Engineers'.
The course is described as follows: Mathematical modelling of physical and chemical processes often leads to a system of complex model equations. It is not possible to solve these equations in an analytical way, and therefore numerical methods and techniques are necessary to arrive at solutions of the model equations. This course is a general introduction in the mathematical aspects of the numerical methods, which are suited to perform reactor calculations and process simulations.Topics, which will be covered in this course, are:
• solving systems of linear and non-linear equations
• ordinary differential equations
• differential Algebraic systems
• partial differential equations
On 30 and 31 May 2017, the course 'Chemical Product Centric Process Design (CPCPD)' will be given by Prof. Rafiqul Gani (Computational Fluid Dynamics) and Dr. ir. N.G. Deen at TU Delft.
The objective of this PhD/PDEng-course is to give the participants a view of chemical product design and the important process design issues related to their development (product-centric process design). The course will highlight how to define the needs of a chemical product; how to identify the candidate chemicals and/or mixtures of chemicals and how to quickly evaluate the important process design issues.
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