Sustainable Product and Process Design

The building blocks for sustainable product and process design are engineering, catalysis and chemical synthesis to achieve intensified, more eco-efficient, environmentally benign and competitive processes and production technologies. 

Five main areas need to be developed to implement innovative process technologies and knowledge-based design as well as plant operation methodologies in chemical, pharmaceutical and biotechnological production  

Knowledge-based manufacturing concepts for targeted and tailored products. 

Development in these areas will also provide opportunities for new business models, utilizing various feedstocks and directly targeting specific product end-use properties. A holistic approach is depicted to rationally integrate innovative chemistry and engineering developments and to develop the most viable option regarding the whole process. 

The following research activities specifically aim to innovate processes and chemical/pharmaceutical manufacturing excellence in Europe  

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Dr. Ruiz-Mercado is currently leading and developing research projects in areas of sustainable development. He is a coinventor and developer of the GREENSCOPE process sustainability methodology and tool. In addition he has a pubhshed record of contributions in research areas such as sustainable product and process design, energy efficient multicomponent distillation, reactive separation processes, sustainabUity evaluation, and life cycle approaches. 

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