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Richard D. Braatz, Department of Chemical Engineering at UIUC, NCSA
braatz@mozart.scs.uiuc.edu
Jay Alameda, NCSA
jalameda@ncsa.uiuc.edu
Chemical engineers develop processes that turn raw materials into usable products. In many industries, reducing environmental impact is a critical challenge. Traditionally, chemical engineering practice starts with the laboratory-scale chemistry involved in producing a product and builds commercial-scale processes around it. Such processes often use solvents to separate reactants not used in the reaction and unwanted by-products from desired products. The waste streams of reactants, by-products, and solvents often require costly end-of-process treatment strategies to manage the environmental impact. A key to cleaner, more efficient, and profitable manufacturing is to turn around the design process so that the starting chemistry is a design parameter rather than a given. The Application Technologies Chemical Engineering Team is developing computational tools to do this. With these tools, chemical engineers will be able to design plant processes in conjunction with downstream separation techniques, specifying reaction pathways and solvents that minimize environmental consequences. The team is developing an integrated software environment, which includes a large part of chemical engineering practice in an easily usable, mutually compatible set of modeling tools.
Chemical Engineering Team Contacts
Greg McRae mcrae@mit.edu, 617-253-6564
Jay Alameda jalameda@ncsa.uiuc.edu, 217-244-4696
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