Design acceleration in chemical engineering

Guillermo Cortes Robles (1) , Stéphane Négny (1) , Jean-Marc Le Lann (1)

1 LGC - Laboratoire de Génie Chimique

Nowadays, Chemical Engineering has to face a new industrial context with for example: the gradually falling of hydrocarbon reserves after 2020-2030, relocation, emerging of new domains of application (nano-micro technologies) which necessitate new solutions and knowledges... All this tendencies and demands accelerate the need of tool for design and innovation (technically, technologically). In this context, this paper presents a tool to accelerate innovative preliminary design. This model is based on the synergy between: TRIZ (Russian acronym for Theory of Inventive Problem Solving) and Case Based Reasoning (CBR). The proposed model offers a structure to solve problem, and also to store and make available past experiences in problems solving. A tool dedicated to chemical engineering problems, is created on this model and a simple example is treated to explain the possibilities of this tool.

Mots clés: Innovation; Design; Case Based Reasoning; TRIZ; Chemical process

Domaines: Génie chimique

Guillermo Cortes Robles, Stéphane Négny, Jean-Marc Le Lann. Design acceleration in chemical engineering. Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification, 2008, vol. 47 n° 11., 2019-2028 available on : http://oatao.univ-toulouse.fr/2218/2/Negny_2218.pdf. ⟨10.1016/j.cep.2007.10.001⟩. ⟨hal-00464444⟩