Process integration computer tools

The refinery will evolve to meet the market (and so, the environmental) needs. Some characteristics are easy to foresee versatility, integration from resources to final user ( well-to-wheels), intensive incorporation of computing tools (integrated and predictive modeling at all levels feedstock-process-product), large dynamic incorporation of new catalysts, chemistry driven , fast incorporation of emerging knowledge and last, but most important, environmental preservation and safe operation. 

Contributions that are relevant to our work can be identified in various research areas. The direct, fine-grained process support relates to approaches from the areas of computer-based process support and tool integration. For experience-based reuse, research results about traceability and reuse support infrastructures from the disciplines of software and chemical engineering are applicable. 

This book aims is to treat the most important conceptual aspects of Process Design and Simulation in a unified frame of principles, techniques and tools. Accordingly, the material is organised in five sections. Process Simulation, Thermodynamic Methods, Process Synthesis, Process Integration, Design Project, and covered in 17 Chapters. Numerous examples illustrate both theoretical concepts and design issues. The work refers also to the newest scientific developments in the field of Computer Aided Process Engineering. 

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