EPT - Energy and Process Technology Process Energy

Energy: safe, sustainable and economical methods for extraction, conversion, transportation, storage and use

Processes: design and production of consumer goods, beginning from raw materials

Brian Tighe Coordinator of ME track EPT (EFP)

EPT - Energy and Process Technology Process Energy

Integrated Technologies for the Production of Heat, Power & Chemicals

Application Driven & Fundamental Research on Industrial Process & Energy Technology

Brian Tighe Coordinator of ME track EPT (EFP)

EPT - Energy and Process Technology

Energy

“New” mechanical engineering master track •Starting in September 2016 •Successor to Solid and Fluid Mechanics & Sustainable Process and Energy Technology •Future name: Energy, Flow and Process Technology

Flow Process

Energy & Process Technology

Students acquire • theoretical knowledge, • experimental and modeling skills and • practical hands-on experience

to improve & develop • sustainable • innovative • next-generation

energy and process technologies

Process

Energy

Structure of EPT curriculum (120 EC)

Graduation Project

45 EC

(including 10 EC Literature study)

Internship 15 EC

Year 2 Year 1

Mandatory ME courses

16 EC

Focus area courses 10 EC

60 EC

You may choose: Energy Technology, Process Technology, Fluid Mechanics

32 EC Mandatory

EPT courses 16 EC

Electives 12-15 EC

Social Course 3-6 EC

EPT Curriculum - Mandatory Courses

obligatory for ET Mandatory courses for both specializations

EPT Curriculum - Mandatory+Electives

obligatory for ET Mandatory courses for both specializations

Select 2 of 4

EPT Curriculum – e.g. Process Technology

obligatory for ET Mandatory courses for both specializations

EPT Curriculum – e.g. Process Technology

obligatory for ET Mandatory courses for both specializations

Social Course 3 EC

EPT Curriculum – e.g. Process Technology

obligatory for ET Mandatory courses for both specializations

Social Course 15 EC Electives

EPT Curriculum – Pre-approved Electives • Energy from Biomass • Indoor Climate Control Fundamentals • Process Dynamics & Control • Multiphase Reactor Engineering • Fluid-Structure Interaction • Gas Dynamics • Molecular Thermodynamics • Computational Materials Science • Product & Process Design • Nonlinear Differential Equations • Numerical Analysis • Gas Turbine Simulation/Application • ......... from TU Delft study guide/course browser

EPT Curriculum – Pre-approved Electives • Energy from Biomass • Indoor Climate Control Fundamentals • Process Dynamics & Control • Multiphase Reactor Engineering • Fluid-Structure Interaction • Gas Dynamics • Molecular Thermodynamics • Computational Materials Science • Product & Process Design • Nonlinear Differential Equations • Numerical Analysis • Gas Turbine Simulation/Application • ......... from TU Delft study guide/course browser

Fundamental aspects of the working principle of gas turbines: ideal & real cycle, gas turbines for shaft power, thrust, combustion chambers, turbo machinery

Elective: Gas turbines

Micro gas turbines for small-scale power generation. Efficiency, operating costs and environmental issues? Internal cooling

of blades

EPT Curriculum - Mandatory+Electives

obligatory for ET Mandatory courses for both specializations

The fundamental and mathematical principles of fluid mechanics. Point of departure is the conservation equations for mass and momentum.

Fluid Dynamics

MEEC furnace (300kW).

Jet flames

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD).

Turbulent jet arrays

EPT Curriculum - Mandatory+Electives

obligatory for ET Mandatory courses for both specializations

Process Intensification in reactions and separations: the link between intensified equipment and sustainability performance of a chemical process

Re-invent industrial processes that efficiently use energy and resources while reusing waste streams as new primary material resources.

Steam Cracker Cathedral of the chemical industry of the 20th century

An extinct species in several decades?

Re-invent industrial processes that efficiently use energy and resources while reusing waste streams as new primary material resources.

Steam Cracker Cathedral of the chemical industry of the 20th century

A chemical plant… …like this?

…or like this?

Process Intensification - all about efficiency

Micro chemical plant

20

Alternative fuels from biomass or waste

Gasification → CO + H2

or

AbsorberFlue gas:10-15 % CO2

5-7 % H2O3-4 % O2

70-75 % N2

20 ppm CO500 ppm NOx

<800 ppm SOx

Cleaned flue gasto atmosphere

CO2-richsolution

Molecular Simulation

Absorption Process

Molecular Simulation CO2 absorption – with ionic liquids

Thermodynamic modeling

Molecular Simulation “Smart” fluids – tunable damping

Molecular Simulation “Smart” fluids – tunable damping

Recent graduation reports (of SPET students) • Design and analysis of a heat pump applied to old apartment buildings • Numerical modelling of radiative heat transfer in flameless and conventional

combustion • Project management in high tech start-ups • High efficiencies of power systems by combining Solid Oxide Fuel Cells and

gas turbines • Ultrasonic irradiation and its mixing and crystal nucleation consequences • Experimental Validation of a New Ammonia/Water Absorption Model in a Mini-

Channel Annulus • Eco-efficiency of biomass co-firing with coal on 20% on thermal input basis

until 2020 • Cooling crystallization under influence of a strong DC electric field for

controlling polymorphism

More MSc graduation reports at: www.repository.tudelft.nl

TU students with BSc other than ME Doorstroommatrix Coordinator schakelminor: Ewoud van Luik E.P.vanLuik@tudelft.nl

Bridging program for HBO students

No longer exempt from Internship (15 ECTS) The bridging program amounts to about 37 ECTS.

SPET/EPT/EFP student population

About 55 students started in September 2015

Employment

Career perspectives

SPETdispuut-3mE@tudelft.nl

SPET/EPT student association “Het Dispuut”

4/1/14 30 4/1/14 30

Studytour 2015 - Roadtrip

SPETdispuut-3mE@tudelft.nl

EPT/EFP Coordinator Brian Tighe Coordinator of ME track Energy and Process Technology Process & Energy Department Delft University of Technology Leeghwaterstraat 39, 2628 CB Delft The Netherlands b.p.tighe@tudelft.nl home.tudelft.nl/en/study/master-of-science/master-programmes www.pe.tudelft.nl

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