PSE Tools for Process Intensification

Process intensification is considered to be one important tool to meet the requirements for more efficient and sustainable processing. Even though many different intensified technologies have been developed, only some of them have been implemented in industry yet. One of the reasons is that process synthesis and design of intensified processes, benchmarking between different intensified technologies or targeted intensification beyond currently existing solution is complex and challenging. Addressing such complexity and offering systematic solution procedures is the strength of process systems engineering. Therefore, an overview of some of the recently developed methods and tools for process design and synthesis to achieve process intensification acting at different scales of the process is given.