Biosystems control ... towards a sustainable future
Research focus = efficient and sustainable process design and process control.
Sustainability = meeting the required product or effluent quality with reduced use of energy, resources or added chemicals, aiming for reuse, reduced greenhouse gas emission, more compact installations, ... in a reliable, safe, economically beneficial and socially acceptable way.
Numerical simulations based on physical-based models
Application domain
a priori not limited / applied methodologies are generally applicable
environmental technology
bioconversion processes
Methodology
Process engineering aspects, in particular the actual design and control of processes and reactors, are studied by means of:
On-line gas phase analyzer for monitoring N2O, CH4, O2, CO2
physical-based models (based on conservation of mass, energy, ...)
monitoring campaigns and full-scale experiments
theoretical systems analysis and numerical simulation
