Process integration tools for the industry decarbonization in collaboration with SFOE Pinch Small

Semester/Master project

Contact: Daniel Flórez-Orrego, daniel.florezorrego@epfl.ch

Semester/Master project in collaboration with the Swiss Federal Office of Energy

Objectives

The goal is to develop the next generation process integration and pinch analysis reference tool for the Swiss confederation: Pinch Small

Profile

• Interest in modeling of industrial and chemical processes, energy conversion systems and energy integration method.
• Some knowledge in Python and Lua is desirable.

Project plan

The study includes:

1. Development of process modeling and integration tools.
2. Automatization of data handling and interpretation for feeding pinch analysis tools.
3. Interaction with engineers and IT to define the future tools for analyzing industrial processes.
4. Proposing new visualization methods for representing and improving the energy systems.
5. Close collaboration with the Swiss Federal Office of Energy.
6. Knowledge transfer between academia, industry and government.

Observation

The project is related to the PinchSmall project of the Swiss Federal Office of Energy

Sources

See more at: https://scnat.ch/fr/uuid/i/a8a3cfdf-1cb6-5f80-b690-8bafc2d8c968-Fort_potentiel_d%E2%80%99%C3%A9conomie_d%E2%80%99%C3%A9nergie_pour_l%E2%80%99industrie_suisse

Supervisors

Daniel Flórez-Orrego, daniel.florez.orrego@epfl.ch