Associate Professor Xiaodong Liang and PhD Student Spardha Virendra Jhamb represented the DTU Chemical Engineering Department at the DTU High Tech Summit this year.
Xiaodong gave a 20 minute technical talk on Computer-aided tools in Sustainable Product Design.After an overall introduction of the department, KT Consortium, ICAS (Integrated Computer Aided System) and computer-aided product design, threecase studieswere presented.
One was about substitution of hazardous chemicals, the second was about solvent selection for coatingsformulations while the third one was about developing a model for the prediction of biodegradation oforganiccompounds.
This was followed by a demonstration of the ICAS software developed at KT Consortium. Spardha demonstrated two out of the many tools available in this software, namely ProCAMD for the design of organic compounds and mixtures using group-contribution property models and VPPD-Lab for chemical formulation design.
Discussions following the demonstration raised keen interest in the capabilities of the software. The participation in this event is foreseen to open doors for collaboration across various departments at DTU.