The PhD project is part of a larger research project; SYNFERON, which focuses on advancing the existing knowledge and state-of-the-art for the syngas fermentation and downstream processing of liquids products.
The study will mainly be conducted with software for process simulation; Aspen Plus®, and other in-house programs available at DTU.
In a second phase data and models obtained from the other team members will be implemented in a global simulation of the SYNFERON process; and different possible layouts will be tested. Design optimization and energy integration (e.g. pinch analysis) will be performed in order to determining the highest possible efficiency.