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Process Design in World 3.0 – Challenges and Strategies to Master the Raw Material Change
Author(s) -
Burger Jakob,
Ströfer Eckhard,
Hasse Hans
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
chemical engineering and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1521-4125
pISSN - 0930-7516
DOI - 10.1002/ceat.201500196
Subject(s) - process (computing) , chemical industry , raw material , supply chain , process design , value (mathematics) , biochemical engineering , chemical process , quality (philosophy) , business , process engineering , process management , computer science , engineering , process integration , chemistry , marketing , chemical engineering , environmental engineering , philosophy , organic chemistry , epistemology , machine learning , operating system
The evolution of global energy supply chains leads to a raw material change in the chemical industry. Despite this change, the value‐added chains of the chemical industry have to keep up their output of diverse high‐quality products desired by the customers. C1 chemistry in combination with suitable conversion technologies yielding olefins and aromatics will play a key role in mastering this challenge. New chemical value‐added chains have to be developed and assessed, resulting in an increasing importance of conceptual process design. All this will take place in what Ghemawat has called the World 3.0, a globally linked but regionally diverse world. This diversity creates further challenges for process design in the chemical industries. A systematic concept to address these challenges is given here, including strategies for optimization and decision support.