Engineering process, challenges

Chocolate manufacture is a complicated engineering process with the aim of producing a material which is attractive to the consumer. Critical to the success of processes is the control of the crystalline state of the fats used and the networks that they form (see also Chapters 4 and 17). The engineering challenge is to develop a manufacturing route that produces the required product as efficiently as possible. 

Schmidt, H.-L., Saschewag, I., Possibilities of Process Control with Biosensors , in Biochemical Engineering — A Challenge for Interdisciplinary Cooperation, Chmiel, H., Hammes, W. P., Bailey, J. E. (eds.) Stuttgart Gustav Fischer Verlag, 1987, pp. 132-138. 

Sommerfeld S, Strube J (2005). Challenges in biotechnology production- generic processes and process optimization for monoclonal antibodies. Chem. Engin. Process. 44 1123-1137. 

Scale-up of any engineering process is a great technical and economic challenge. Scale-up of granulation processes, in particular, is difficult and often problematic due to the inherently heterogenous nature of the materials used. However, recent improved understanding of the rate processes that control granulation improves our ability to do rational scale-up. 

Shah, K., Ouyang, X. and Besser, R.S. (2005) Microreaction for microfuel processing Challenges and prospects. Chemical Engineering Technology, 28,303-313. 

The Process Control Modules (PCM), originally developed at the University of Delaware, have been designed to address the key engineering educational challenge of realistic problem solving within the constraints of a typical lecture course in process dynamics and control (Doyle III et al, 1998 Doyle III, 2001). These modules have been updated and adapted by Dr. Eyal Dassau at the University of California Santa Barbara, to be used in conjunction with the 3rd edition of Process Dynamics and Control The primary objectives in creating these MATLAB modules were to develop the following ... 

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