Process integration importance

The choice of a specific CO2 removal system depends on the overall ammonia plant design and process integration. Important considerations include CO2 sHp required, CO2 partial pressure in the synthesis gas, presence or lack of sulfur, process energy demands, investment cost, availabiUty of solvent, and CO2 recovery requirements. Carbon dioxide is normally recovered for use in the manufacture of urea, in the carbonated beverage industry, or for enhanced oil recovery by miscible flooding. 

To operate the MPI or LPI equipment at stable and reprodncable inspection conditions modern units are equipped with a monitoring and control system called "Quality Assurance Package" (termed QAP). The QAP System is ba.sed on an industrial PC with a bus system and field sensors. It ensures that process parameters important for the reproducability of the MPI or LPI are controlled an held between defined limits by a central computer system. It can be adapted to any old system, as well as integrated into new systems. 

An important recent trend is the tendency for the two processes, CVD andPVD, to merge. For instance, CVD now makes extensive use of plasma (a physical phenomenon) and reactive PVD (evaporation or sputtering) occurs in a chemical environment. Much ofthenew equipment reflects this process integration in the concept of cluster tools which may incorporate CVD, etching, sputtering, and ion implantation in one piece of equipment. 

Closely related to challenges in process integration are those in reactor engineering and design. Research in this area is important if we... 

Taking into account process integration, i.e. - cultivation and product purification, particle locaHsation is an important issue. Strategies to produce a secreted particle, either by manipulation of its composition or by co-expression of NS protein(s) will be also discussed, since this can lead to an easier purification process and to a decrease in product losses due to intracellular proteolysis. The production of Rotavirus-Hke particles and Bluetongue virus-like particles production will be used as examples to illustrate this point. 

The major objectives of current research activities in this highly interesting domain of chemical engineering are to develop new concepts for process integration, to investigate their efficiency, and to make them available for technical application. The importance of this field is reflected by the increasing number of articles in journals and book contributions that have been published during the past three decades... 

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