The day after the defence, TUESDAY DEC. 20TH, prof. Malone will give two
lectures (also in Aud. K5 ):
10.15 -- 11.00 "DESIGN AND SYNTHESIS OF DISTILLATION SYSTEMS"
Prof. Malone, together with prof. Mike Doherty and Prof.
Jim Douglas, leads one of the foremost groups in the world
in the area of Process Synthesis. Their developments in
the area of complex separation systems (azeotropic, extractive,
and other highly non-ideal) have up to now defined the
state-of-the-art in this area.
Prof. Malone will in this lecture highlight some of the key
concepts in their approach to synthesis of distillation systems.
He will also describe how they have implemented their design
methods in a computer program system called MAYFLOWER.
The Mayflower system is soon to be launced as a commercial
software product, marketed by Hyprotech, the company behind
the widespread process simulator HYSIM.
11.15 -- 12.00 "EFFECTS OF KINETICS ON RESIDUE CURVE MAPS FOR REACTIVE
DISTILLATION"
The group at UMASS (Doherty, Malone and coworkers) have
recently shown how the design of reactive distillation
processes may be reduced to the design of corresponding
distillation processes without reaction, IF the reaction
can be assumed to be equilibrium controlled.
In this lecture, Prof. Malone will extend the method to
systems where the reaction is kinetically controlled.
-Kristian M. Lien