Preface

This CD-ROM contains the Supplementary Proceedings of the 12th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE-12) held in The Hague, The Netherlands, from May 26-29, 2002. The Supplementary Proceedings comprise those papers that, for various reasons, could not be included in the regular ESCAPE-12 Proceedings (in Computer Aided Chemical Engineering, Volume 10, Elsevier, 2002 ).

ESCAPE-12 is the 35th event of the Working Party on Computer Aided Process Engineering (CAPE) of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE). The first event on computer applications in the chemical industry organised by the CAPE Working Party was in Tutzing, Germany in 1968. The common symposium name of ESCAPE was adopted in 1992 and started at Elsinore, Denmark, that year. The most recent symposia were organised in Kolding, Denmark, 2001 (ESCAPE-11), in Florence, Italy, 2000 (ESCAPE-10) and in Budapest, Hungary, 1999 (ESCAPE-9).

The ESCAPE series serves as a forum for bringing together scientists, students, engineers and managers from academia and industry, which are interested in CAPE. The scientific aim of this series is to present and review the latest developments in CAPE or Systems Process / Product Engineering. This research area bridges fundamental sciences (physical, chemical and biological) with the various aspects of process and product engineering.

The objective of ESCAPE-12 is to highlight advances made in developments and innovative use of computing methods and information technology tools on five specific technical themes:

• Integrated Product and Process Design
• Process Synthesis and Plant Design,
• Process Dynamics and Control,
• Manufacturing and Plant Operations,
• Computational Technologies.

The advances in CAPE technology have implications for the chemical engineering profession in general; hence the sixth theme addresses:

• Sustainable CAPE education and careers for chemical engineers.

These Supplementary Proceedings of ESCAPE-12 comprise 1? abstract and 4? full papers of keynote lectures and 23 contributed papers. The contributed papers are arranged in order of the above six themes. All papers have been reviewed by members of the international scientific committee. We are very grateful for their evaluations, comments and recommendations. The papers on this CD are stored as .pdf  files, accessible with an Adobe Acrobat reader?.

We hope that the ESCAPE-12 Proceedings will serve as a valuable reference documents to the scientific and industrial community and that it will contribute to the progress in computer aided process and product engineering.

Johan Grievink
Jan van Schijndel
 

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