Process System Engineering in the Netherlands
4 professors appointed at Dutch universities
This contribution follows up to a previous article on the vital role of PSE Education, now introducing recently appointed professors in PSE at Dutch universities. Below you can read about their backgrounds and specific areas of expertise. In future, subsequent contributions to NPT Magazine, each of them will elaborate on their research projects and their educational contributions to the ChemEng. programs.
Prof. Dr. Ir. Anton A. Kiss
Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology,
Van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HZ, Delft, The Netherlands E-mail: TonyKiss@gmail.com
"Process Systems Engineering - Using the power of models to push the frontiers of innovation in sustainable process technology" - Tony Kiss
Tony Kiss has been appointed as new PSE chair at the Delft University of Technology, in the departments of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology. He is an experienced chemical engineer with key expertise in Process Systems Engineering, Process Intensification, and Separation Technology. He holds a doctoral title from University of Amsterdam, and was a Post Doctoral research fellow at TU Delft and UvA. Tony is a chartered Fellow of IChemE, with over 20 years of academic and industrial experience. He worked as professor at The University of Manchester (UK) and the University of Twente, and previously he was Senior Project Manager and RD&I Specialist at AkzoNobel Chemicals. He has published over 20 textbooks & book chapters, 9 patents, and over 100 scientific articles in highly-ranked journals. For the pioneering research work, he has received the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, Hoogewerff Jongerenprijs and the AkzoNobel Innovation Excellence Award.
More info at: www.tonykiss.com
Read his contribution 'Sound decision-making by process systems engineering'
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Artur M. Schweidtmann
ChemEngAI Group, Department of Chemical Engineering, Delft University of Technology,
Van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HZ, Delft, The Netherlands E-mail: a.schweidtmann@tudelft.nl
"Artificial intelligence will transform the way we design and operate chemical processes!" - Artur Schweidtmann
Schweidtmann has been appointed as of April 2021 as a new assistant professor for Artificial Intelligence in Chemical Engineering at the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). He is heading the ChemEngAI group. Artur studied Chemical Engineering at the RWTH Aachen University in Germany, Carnegie Mellon University in the USA, and the University of Cambridge in the UK. He obtained his Ph.D. from RWTH Aachen University working on process systems engineering.
The research of Artur Schweidtmann bridges artificial intelligence and chemical engineering to deliver the next generation of intelligent knowledge and decision-making platforms for the chemical engineering field. He is actively collaborating with industry and academic partners on a broad range of topics including process optimization, Industry 4.0, digital twins, machine learning, knowledge representation, computer vision, and automated decision making.
Further details of his scientific work can be found at Google Scholar.
Read his contribution 'Transforming chemical engineering with Artificial Intelligence!'
Prof. Dr. Ing. Meik B. Franke
University of Twente, Faculty of Science and Technology, Sustainable Process Technology Group
Postbus 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands, E-mail: m.b.franke@utwente.nl
“Process Optimization – Insights for Sound Decisions in the Process Industry” - Meik Franke
Meik Franke has been appointed as of January 2021 as new professor for Process Design and Optimization at the University of Twente, Faculty of Science and Technology, Sustainable Process Technology Group. He studied Chemical Engineering at the Technical University Dortmund in Germany and obtained his PhD at the Laboratory of Fluid Separations of Professor Andrzej Górak. Meik worked for 15 years at Bayer and LANXESS in Germany and China in various positions. He has carried out and lead several process development and investment projects for isocyanate production units as process engineer and project manager. As technical plant manager, he was responsible among others for an upgrading program of a phosgenation unit. In his last assignment, he was heading the Process Modeling and Design group, which is part of the digital transformation activities providing the Digital Twins for the productions plants of Bayer.
Read his contribution 'Quo vadis process flowsheet optimization'
Further details of his scientific work can be found at Google Scholar.
Prof.dr.ir. Edwin Zondervan
University of Twente, Faculty of Science and Technology, Sustainable Process Technology Group
Postbus 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands, E-mail: e.zondervan@utwente.nl
“PSE lab is riveting attention on advanced decision-making for new processes and products” - Edwin Zondervan
Edwin Zondervan studied at Groningen University. After his Ph.D. he worked at TUe where he developed PSE methods for intensified-, polymer- and food systems. He also worked at the TU of Catalonia, Carnegie Mellon Univ., Denmark Technical Univ. and Imperial College. He is an active lecturer and trained many students in design, control and numerics. For the latter one he wrote a textbook “A numerical primer for the chemical engineer” and in 2020 a textbook on product-driven process design was released! From 2015 onwards he lead the PSE lab and the Advanced Energy Systems Institute at Bremen University (Germany). He managed a large project (4.4M€, BMWi) on green fuels and acted as internationalization coordinator for the university. He renewed the chemical engineering curriculum and designed courses on PSE. He is vice-chair of the CAPE WP and a delegate in the QbD and Energy WP's of the EFCE. Recently Edwin joined UT and holds the new chair on process systems engineering! With this return he will revive PSE in the Netherlands!
Read his contribution 'Process systems engineering (PSE) ... to infinity and beyond!'
