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EPSRC Reference:	GR/N38688/01
Title:	CRYSTALLISATION KINETICS MODELLING USING AUTOMATED DYNAMIC MODEL-BUILDING TOOLS
Principal Investigator:	Asprey, Dr S
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Project Partners:	Delft University of Technology
Department:	Chemical Engineering
Organisation:	Imperial College London
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	03 January 2001	Ends:	02 March 2002	Value (£):	62,358
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Design of Process systems
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	No relevance to Underpinning Sectors
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Crystallisation as a unit operation is widely practised throughout the process industries in the production of, for example, catalysts, fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals. Yet, despite the wealth of experience gained from such widespread application, this method suffers a disproportionate number of process difficulties. To gain competitive advantage through a deeper understanding of the underlying phenomena, there is a trend toward model-based techniques for crystallisation process design and operations control for manufacture. Consequently, as there are no systematic methods or tools for use by practitioners for building dynamic process models, there is a distinct requirement for novel statistical methods to aid in building detailed models in an automated fashion. The proposed research will become an integral part in a comprehensive programme already underway on the development of these methods by the principal investigator; however, they are still in their infancy and their application to real-world situations is imperative to aid in the development process and to demonstrate and experimentally verify their capabilities. The proposed project plans to take advantage of collaboration already established between the Laboratory for Process Equipment, Technological University of Delft (where experimental equipment is available for immediate use) and the Centre for Process Systems Engineering at Imperial College.EngProg\
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