Conceptual chemical process design

In this thesis an Inherent Safety Index for conceptual chemical process design is presented. This is required, since inherent safety should be considered in the early phases of design when the major decisions on the chemical process are made. The presented methodology allows such a consideration since the index is based on the knowledge available in the preliminary process design stage. 

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Chemical process design, as it is commonly known, typically starts with a general problem statement with respect to the chemical product that needs to be produced, its specifications that need to be matched, and the chemicals (raw materials) that may be used to produce it. Based on this information, a series of decisions and calculations are made at various stages of the design process to obtain first a conceptual process design, which is then further developed to obtain a final design, satisfying at the same time, a set of economic and process constraints. The important point to note here is that the identity of the chemical product and its desired qualities are known at the start but the process (flowsheet/operations) and its details are unknown. 

CLiP provides a conceptualization of the most important entities and their relations in the domain of chemical process design. However, CLiP is not intended as a comprehensive, detailed product data model. Rather, it is understood as a conceptual model, based on which specialized implementation models can be developed, such as data schemata for domain-specific databases and tools, or neutral representation formats for the exchange of product data between heterogeneous software systems. Within the CRC, several implementation models for domain-specific software tools have been elaborated on the basis of CLiP. 

Most of these publications are specific to a subtopic of IMPROVE, e.g. an article on Conceptual Information Models for Chemical Process Design . So, they are the results of subprojects or of one group. However, in IMPROVE a big number of articles was also written in cooperation of two or even more groups. There is hardly another international project with such a big number of joint publications. 

Bayer, B. Conceptual Information Modeling for Computer-Aided Support of Chemical Process Design, VDI Verlag (2003)... 

Bayer, B. Conceptual Information Modeling for Computer Aided Support of Chemical Process Design. PhD thesis, RWTH Aachen University. Published in Fortschritt-Berichte VDI Reihe 3, Nr. 787. VDI-Verlag, Diisseldorf (2003)... 

Bayer, B., Marquardt, W. A conceptual information model for the chemical process design lifecycle. In Jeusfeld, M., Jarke, M., Mylopoulos, J. (eds.) The Method Engineering Textbook, MIT Press, Cambridge (2007)... 

Douglas, J. M., Conceptual Design of Chemical Processes, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1988. 

Douglas, J.M., 1988. Conceptual design of chemical processes. New York McGraw Hill. 

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