Integrated design of thermomorphic multicomponent systems (TMS) and separation processes for the efficient recovery of homogeneous catalysts and solvents (B09*)

• Subject Area: Chemical and Thermal Process Engineering
• Term: from 2018 to 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 56091768

In subproject B9 N, model-based methods for the integrated design of thermomorphic multicom-ponent systems (TMS) and separation processes are developed in order to recover efficiently homo-geneous catalysts and solvents from product mixtures of the considered example reactions (hydro-formylation, reductive amination, hydroaminomethylation). From this design task strongly nonlinear mixed integer optimization problems result that are to be solved be use of methods from determinis-tic global optimization. Besides economic criteria also ecological aspects are taken into account.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 63: Integrated Chemical Processes in Liquid Multiphase Systems
• Applicant Institution: Technische Universität Berlin
• Project Heads: Professor Dr.-Ing. Achim Kienle; Professor Dr.-Ing. Kai Sundmacher