Challenges in the design of formulated products: multiscale process and product design

Publication date: March 2020Source: Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering, Volume 27Author(s): Manuel Taifouris, Mariano Martín, Alberto Martínez, Nats EsquejoIn this work we provide an overview of the current trend in process and product design as a multidisciplinary area within process system engineering. This problem shows a strong link between different fields including economics, marketing, molecular chemistry, physico-chemistry as well as process design and all the way up to ingredients and final products supply chain. While the different stages in product design have been studied one by one, recent efforts aim at the integrated product design, showing economic and environmental benefits. However, there is still a long way to go for the integrated product design problem that is of paramount importance in the case of formulated products where tradeoffs between product performance, environmental burden and cost can only be addressed from a global perspective.
Source: Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering - Category: Chemistry Source Type: research