The food sector is confronted with a growing number of public and private requirements, which call for provision of information about the quality and sustainability of food, such as, e.g., its origin, safety and production conditions. This forces enterprises to innovate towards demand driven and...

We offer a formal definition of business process integration. The views of integration in various fields are reviewed and integrated to isolate the four fundamental properties of information that define it: accessibility, transparency, granularity and timeliness. An illustration of a process in...

The paper presents a new thermochemical process for the production of isobutanol, which is an excellent biobased gasoline blendstock. The main feedstock for the process is glycerine, obtained as a byproduct in biodiesel production, being used together with methanol. The process was modeled in...

Most industries consume a large amount of energy to produce goods and to reduce the resultant CO2 emissions. We develop a systematic process integration framework for the optimal design and techno-economic performance analysis of energy supply and CO2 mitigation strategies. We first generate an...

Coupling exothermic with endothermic reactions is proposed as a significant improvement in reactor performance and energy integration. Furthermore, it forms an initial step for process optimization using pinch method. Through coupling of the exothermic reaction with endothermic one, oxidation...

A great interest has been arising about the production of fuels and advanced chemicals from renewable resources such as wooden biomass in the so-called biorefineries. Pulp and paper mills are often seen as the most obvious fundamental module of such industrial sites, because of the common...