TOP-REF

Achieving Sustainability with Process Simulation

These days, the process industries of Europe are confronted with changing conditions. Their production costs are rising due to increasing energy prices; at the same time, the fuels applied today are causing greenhouse gas emissions, thus boosting global climate change; moreover, Europe’s competitiveness is at risk, since new rivals from emerging countries have appeared on the markets, most of them carrying along lower prices.

The European Commission responds to this new situation with a high number of supporting arrangements for process industries. That includes funding research projects which aim to improve productivity, to increase power efficiency as well, and to ensure a continuous supply of raw materials for the industrial production.

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Intending to make things more concrete, a consortium of about thirty research partners from science and industry, coming from countries like Germany, Denmark, France, Portugal, and Spain, has met in Zaragoza (Spain) in the middle of January 2014. Two members of INOSIM were among them. Together the experts planned the TOP-REF project which aims to improve Europe’s chemical, agrochemical, and petrochemical process industries.

Aiming at a reduction of energy and water consumption

The project’s targets include a decrease in consumption of water, materials, and energy in process engineering of about 20 percent. That shall lead to more positive environmental effects as well as to lowering production costs.

CIRCE (Centre of Research for Energy Resources and Consumption), which is allocated to the Zaragoza University, is the head of the project’s organization and coordination. TOP-REF’s next step will be a detailed analysis of today’s state of the art in the process industrial sectors mentioned above. In this context, INOSIM simulation tools are projected to be applied and to be furthermore developed. In a later phase, tools for controlling and monitoring the production shall be generated. Parallelly, items on cost, environmental impact, and resource consumption shall be found which can be used for supporting decision-making in economy and politics.

For tasks like these, the INOSIM simulation tools have been designed. They will be applied during several phases of TOP-REF. For the project, a duration of 42 months has been scheduled.

The project is funded by the European Commission, project reference nr 604140. For further information, please visit the project’s homepage.

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