CEPIMA - Process and Environmental Engineering Centre

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Objectives

1. Integration and intensification of processes for a sustainably improvement which preview the design and optimal operations of all the supply chain during the completely life cycle of the product under multi-objectives ( productivity, environmental impact, security, resources optimization), all of these taking in consideration the different levels of detail (strategic, tactical and operational) and the different optimization techniques (mathematical programming, stochastic methods, life cycle analysis, etc.). Also, systems for intelligent help decision making (DSS) are developed to do a line and a real time action (management, coordination, supervision and diagnosis and control). A software is developed to help the implementation of these techniques and methodologies and their transfer to industrial environment.
2. Management and evaluation of waste though thermal processing and energetic production (combustion, gasification and pyrolysis), which allow a good environmental control.  To complement each other, heat cleaning systems by sorbent solids are used and permit taking profits of the gases in a combined cycle of power and energy. Also, prediction of the cogasification of waste from different origins (biomass, urban solid waste -RSU-, used pneumatics, mud fromsewage treatment plant) for the clean and sustainable production of synthesized gas or,alternatively, production of pure H2 for its own utilization in  high efficiency combustible cells. Equipment (fluidized bed reactor –FBR-) and own design informatics support are developed in an industrial scale.  
3. Control of the environmental contamination that is estimated by the improvement of the new methodologies, techniques and tools for the industrial emissions evaluation (smells, volatile organic composts –COV-, etc.). Control systems of smells and environmental quality in urban areas are developed with the integration of the meteorological analysis, chemical analysis, modeling and social control. The system allows the identification study of the origin of the focus and the own contribution incident. Own equipment design that allows the automation  of the sample taking and software applications that allow the development of maps and the origin prediction (backscattering) are developed.

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• Books
• Patents
• Doctoral theses

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