ISCRE 27: Chemical Reaction Engineering for Sustainable Development
ISCRE 27 will also include several workshops available for conference attendees for a nominal additional fee. These will be presented by scholars and experts in these areas and, in some cases, involve vendors who have developed software. The workshops will have a capacity limit and will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis. The workshops are scheduled from 2:00pm to 5:00pm on Sunday, June 11.
Note: All workshops will run concurrently; you may enroll in only one workshop.
Reaction Engineering Short Course on Laboratory Reactors
The Dow Chemical Company
Reaction Engineering | Core R&D
Developed by the Core R&D Reaction Engineering group of The Dow Chemical Company and designed for chemists and engineers who operate or use data from laboratory reactors, this course contains fundamental reaction engineering knowledge essential for generating high quality data from a laboratory scale reactor. The course content includes general principles and practical tips for designing and operating laboratory reactors. The bulk of the course content focuses on stirred tank, homogeneous tubular, and fixed bed reactors for a variety of reaction systems, including homogeneous liquid phase, gas-liquid, gas-solid, liquid-solid, and gas-liquid-solid systems. At the end of this course, chemists and engineers will have a better understanding of the critical factors affecting the performance of laboratory scale reactors and the appropriate means for addressing those factors to maximize the probability of generating quality data. During this course, the instructors will introduce a publicly available tool for estimating gradients in heterogeneous catalyst particles and for sizing laboratory fixed bed reactors. This tool is the product of a collaboration between Dow and Purdue University.
Course outline:
1. Introduction to fundamental concepts and principles
2. Stirred tank reactors
a. For liquid and gas-liquid systems
b. For gas-liquid-solid slurry systems
3. Homogeneous tubular reactors
4. Fixed bed reactors
a. For gas-solid systems
b. For gas-liquid-solid systems
Scaling of Reacting Systems
COANDA
Chemical reactions do not occur as isolated processes. Reacting species must be brought together under conditions that allow the desired conversions to occur, producing products at rates, extents and purities that meet commercial expectations. As a result, fluid mechanics, mass transport, heat transfer, phase equilibria, and local thermodynamics can all influence the outcome. With this in mind it is more appropriate to speak of a reacting ‘system’ than of a chemical reaction. For practical and economic reasons, a reacting system is often developed using equipment and conditions that are not identical to the final commercial implementation with respect to geometry, operating condition, or even operating mode. To design commercial processes from laboratory data, understanding scale-up of all the various physical phenomena impacting the system is necessary. Where a commercial process is to be studied in the laboratory, scale-down of these same phenomena is required, to ensure the physics are being studied in an appropriate regime. This short course will provide general strategies for scaling that can be applied to reacting systems. An example-based approach is used, leveraging Coanda’s 27 years of experience in the area of scaling. The course will build over the afternoon, starting with an introduction to rational approaches to scaling. Examples of the application of various problems associated with nonreacting systems will follow, building in complexity with each example.
Chemical reactions do not occur as isolated processes. Reacting species must be brought together under conditions that allow the desired conversions to occur, producing products at rates, extents and purities that meet commercial expectations. As a result, fluid mechanics, mass transport, heat transfer, phase equilibria, and local thermodynamics can all influence the outcome. With this in mind it is more appropriate to speak of a reacting ‘system’ than of a chemical reaction. For practical and economic reasons, a reacting system is often developed using equipment and conditions that are not identical to the final commercial implementation with respect to geometry, operating condition, or even operating mode. To design commercial processes from laboratory data, understanding scale-up of all the various physical phenomena impacting the system is necessary. Where a commercial process is to be studied in the laboratory, scale-down of these same phenomena is required, to ensure the physics are being studied in an appropriate regime. This short course will provide general strategies for scaling that can be applied to reacting systems. An example-based approach is used, leveraging Coanda’s 27 years of experience in the area of scaling. The course will build over the afternoon, starting with an introduction to rational approaches to scaling. Examples of the application of various problems associated with nonreacting systems will follow, building in complexity with each example.
Modeling of Catalytic Reactors in gPROMS Process: supporting R&D workflows
Siemens PSE
The workshop will focus on gPROMS Process as a tool supporting workflows in Chemical Reaction Engineering R&D. gPROMS is a powerful platform for the modeling, simulation, and optimization of chemical and process systems. It provides a comprehensive set of Advanced Model Libraries that cover various areas of chemical and process engineering. It will be demonstrated how the software provides efficient framework for R&D researchers: capturing their deep process knowledge and forming high-fidelity predictive models that can then be used for exploring the process and product decision space rapidly and effectively. The modular and multiscale structure of the model libraries for catalytic reactors, together with easy to setup and use model validation, optimization, and system analysis features, make the tool well suited for processing experimental data and designing pilot and industrial scale reactors.
The workshop outline: 1. gPROMS Process introduction 2. Reactor modelling in gPROMS Process 3. Demo and/or Hands-on exercises: • Fixed Bed Catalytic Reactors model setup • Customisation of model libraries – reaction kinetics (basic, surface chemistry, deactivation, gas phase reactions), heat&mass transfer, pressure drop • Parameter estimation features • Optimization and Global System Analysis features 4. Additional topics – use cases relevant to sustainability, other types of reactors
Technical Writing: Adopt the Active Voice to Write Effectively –
Prof. Gregory Patience
This workshop demonstrates how to communicate ideas efficiently and proposes guidelines to activate text. At the end of the workshop you will: identify the origin of convoluted language; apply logos, pathos, and ethos to present data and ideas; remove metadiscourse (hedging, boosting, redundant, and narcissism) appropriately; and, write meaningful abstracts.
This workshop demonstrates how to communicate ideas efficiently and proposes guidelines to activate text. At the end of the workshop you will: identify the origin of convoluted language; apply logos, pathos, and ethos to present data and ideas; remove metadiscourse (hedging, boosting, redundant, and narcissism) appropriately; and, write meaningful abstracts.
Key Dates
Milestone | Date |
Call for Abstracts | 29 August 2022 |
Abstract Deadline | 16 December 2022 |
Online Registration | 13 February 2023 |
Notification of Acceptance | 13 February 2023 |
Travel Award Notification | 7 April 2023 |
Early Registration Deadline | 27 April 2023 |