The ChePIC Group has expertise in the design from the grass roots, revamping and optimisation of chemical processes and plants.
During the last years we have developed many innovative processes to valorise renewable feedstocks and energy sources.Wherever possible our approach starts from similar existing applications from fossil sources to improve the acceptability by investors.
The logical scheme starts from the research and validation of thermodynamic and kinetic models to describe the system, folowed by the design of the reactor and the separation units. After tuning of the operating conditions, the optimisation of the heat exchange network and a final economic assessment are done.
A non exhaustive list of applications is (see list of publications for details):
Esempi di processi sviluppati negli ultimi anni sono i seguenti, accedete alla lista delle pubblicazioni per i dettagli:
- Steam reforming of bioethanol
- Centralised production of hydrogen from bioethanol
- Heat&Power Cogeneration based on fuel cells and on the steam reforming of bioethanol
- Acetonitrile production from bioethanol
- Production of bio-ethylene oxide one-pot from bioethanol
- Production of bio-ethylene by dehydration of bioethanol
- CO2 capture by different technologies (absorption with basic solutions, pressure swing adsorption, cryogenic separation, membranes)
- CO2 methanation
- Ammonia synthesis (synthesis loop and integration with different technologies for the production of renewable hydrogen)
- Biomass pyrolysis
- Pyrolysis and gasification of polyolefins from wastes
- Circular regeneration of polyethylene
- Design of innovative photoreactors
- Synthesis of intermediates and active compounds for drugs through flow chemistry.
Avaiable tools are the AspenONE Engineering package and various proprietary Matlab routines.