Chemical Product Design
| Lecturer: | Dr. John Linkhorst |
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| Lecture: | 2 hrs |
| Tutorials: | 1 hr |
| Course schedule: | Please get them from the Course calendar RWTH Online |
| Lecture notes: | Available on Moodle |
| Semester: | Summerterm |
| Language: | German |
| Exam: | Written Exam |
Nowadays, many process engineers do not have the assignment to optimize the production of bulk chemicals. They face the challenge of developing or improving specialty chemicals. Many interdisciplinary questions about how to control and adjust certain product properties have to be answered before starting process engineering. Using a simple procedure, the different steps of product development are explained: From the definition of the needed qualities over the brainstorming and the choice of the best ideas to the manufacture of the product. Using several examples, the consequences of single development steps on the characteristics of the product are shown, and the presentation of problems during product design are pointed out. The lecture is adequate for students of higher semesters, that have already taken the basic classes of process engineering (Chemical Process Engineering, Mechanical Unit Operations, Thermal Unit Operations).