New Course Available: Industrial Process Innovation by AI tools
Innovators need this course to know which AI tools can help them to generate new process and product concepts, and which AI tools help them in each innovation stage to reduce the risks of commercial implementation failure. The course also shows them the strengths,...
Vocabulary Membrane Separations
The field of membrane separations has its own terminology, described by Kronos [1]. I have collected some vocabulary terms described using his description. The scientific membrane field terminology is different from the chemical engineering field terminology. I...
Chemical Engineering Research Provides New Solutions
The number of students entering the chemical engineering Bachelor program of Technical University Eindhoven was 230 in September 2025. This is the highest number ever. Why are so many students now choosing this study? I do not know. What I do know however is that...
Highlights of PDSE 2025
Presentations at the Process Development Symposium Europe (PDSE) October 21-22, 2025, Frankfurt, Germany, showed that Sustainable Chemical Engineering Design methods and specific Artificial Intelligence methods, applied in Europe, result in processes that are better...
Vocabulary on ‘Mixing’
Vocabulary on Mixing The term ‘mixing’ is used in various ways in the field of chemical engineering. Here are some useful definitions. Common mis-understandings of terms are also described. Mixing Mixing 1: The intimate contact of components to obtain one homogenous...
Nanomedicine grows big
I visited the van ’t Hoff lecture and the one-day conference about nano-medicines, both at Delft University of Technology, 3rd and 4th of July 2025. Here are some key points of these conferences: Nanomedicine Grows Big Nanomedicines are now produced at commercial...
New course: Sustainable Industrial Process Innovation and Scale-up (Advanced Course)
I have developed a new course: Sustainable Industrial Process Innovation and Scale-up. This course is an advanced course and will be held in November in Delft, The Netherlands. This course is about reliable sustainable process innovation and scale-up for all stages,...
EPIC 9 Athens 2025 – Process Intensification has Good Vibrations
I visited the 9th of European Process Intensification Conference (EPIC2025) in Athens, June 4-6 2025. It contained over 100 oral and over 40 poster contributions. Here are some PI solutions of industrial relevance: Heterogeneous Catalysed Reactor Professor Hannsjorg...
Bioproducts from Biomass by Biotechnology
Bioproducts from biomass by biotechnology is now growing up! Some 400 bio companies from Western Europe, Azia, and North America were represented at the World Bio Markets Conference, The Hague, June 10-11, 2025. It was a big surprise to me that so many companies...
Gain deeper insight into process intensification with Elsevier
Chris Cogswell published an article about Process Intensification and my webinar 'Sustainable innovation in chemicals: Mastering Process Intensification' on Elsevier. You can read the article on the website of Elsevier.
New Process Industries and Existing Scale-up Methods
New process industry branches with innovative processes are now emerging: Green Hydrogen Production, Waste-to-Value, Renewable Chemicals for Textiles, and Sustainable Packaging Materials. Their innovative processes are often developed by start-up companies. These...
Continuous Manufacturing with Modular Plants for Medicines
'Continuous manufacturing with modular plants for medicines' was the subject of one-day symposium at University Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, March 6, 2025. The symposium was well organized with a shop visit to the construction halls of 18 m height containing...
New phrases added to the Vocabulary of Modern Process Engineering
I have added new terms and phrases to the Scale-up terms in the Vocabulary of Modern Process Engineering. On this page you will find many phrases and terms used in the field of process engineering, Scale-up and Process Intensification. This vocabulary is very useful...
Energiebesparing in bestaande processen door optimalisatie van procescontroleparameters
Energiebesparingen kunnen in bestaande processen bereikt worden door optimalisatie van PID-procescontrole parameters. Vooral in destillaties en in fornuizen kan dit leiden tot forse besparingen, terwijl de kosten niet meer zijn dan een consultancy voor een aantal uren...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Chemical Engineering
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Chemical Engineering was the subject of a one day conference in Paris 13 December 2024, organised by the European Federation of Chemical Engineering. AI and its sub-set Machine Learning (ML) is applied in industry for existing chemical...