Objectives

 

Major scientific aims of the RENESENG project are to:

  • Build synthesis capabilities in PSE tools addressing challenges to important problems in bio renewables including process design, supply chain analysis, valorization of paths and industrial chemistries, and process integration
  • Develop families of models to function at different level of analysis (multi-scale applications) and compatible with each other
  • Consolidate bio renewables modelling and systems engineering knowledge into sharable environments, repositories and software prototypes with capabilities to support engineering tasks (flowsheeting, scale-up, costing, screening) and decisions further offering the opportunity to build dedicated communities of expertise

To build such capabilities, RENESENG should advance conventional modelling and systems engineering technology, namely:

  • Produce modelling templates and flowsheeting technology dedicated to key processes, intermediates and products
  • Build synthesis functions to produce benchmark technology to target efficiencies
  • Build synthesis functions to systematize process integration, as well as the integration of parallel paths and chemistries
  • Produce dedicated methods for costing, scale-up technology that is currently missing
  • Produce dedicated thermodynamic models and methods to model new chemicals and feedstocks
  • Advance systems methods to infuse LCA across all the different levels of analysis and process development
  • Develop prototypes of enabling software to support the efficient development of solutions
  • Develop repositories of data and knowledge to share with the community, and build communities (wikis) to exchange and disseminate

 

RENESENG will develop and validate modelling, synthesis, integration and optimization technology addressing:

  • lignin-based and cellulosic processes (lignocellulosic biorefinery)
  • water-based paths to biomass production (water biorefinery)
  • waste treatment paths and utilization of resulting biomass (residue and MSW biorefinery)
  • plant based oil processing and conversion, optimization of the value creation from co-products (oil-based biorefinery)