Overview

Advancing towards a Circular Economy is a key initiative in striving for “zero-waste” production processes. In the bio-based production industry, resource recovery units can achieve this “zero-waste” production objective by recovering valuable materials from waste which is both economically lucrative and technologically plausible. However, despite these facts industrial implementation of resource recovery solutions is limited. A key reason for this limited implementation is the lack of coherent methods and tools that can be used to efficiently identify, develop and implement applicable platform technologies in respective industries taking into account the complex Technical, Economic and Societal considerations.

The objective of this one-day workshop is to equip the attendees with multi-disciplinary tools and methodologies in the general domain of Process Systems Engineering together with sound fundamental knowledge of emerging and established process technologies that are of relevance.

The workshop will be a balance of lectures and case study based group work. The intended participants are both industrial practitioners, academics as well as postgraduate students interested in resource recovery solutions.

The workshop is organised by the Waste & Biomass Processing Group and the Industrial Information and Control Centre (I2C2) at the University of Auckland together with Process and Systems Engineering Centre (PROSYS) at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU).