Process intensification is the pathway to creating more environmentally sustainable chemical processes. It aims to significantly reduce the size, environmental impact, safety risks, and energy consumption of technology used in chemical processes. It's essential to note that process intensification focuses on engineering approaches and equipment, not on developing new chemical routes or changing catalyst compositions. This concept involves designing innovative apparatuses and techniques to enhance manufacturing and processing, leading to substantial reductions in equipment size compared to production capacity, energy usage, and waste production. Ultimately, this results in more sustainable technologies. Process intensification equipment includes new types of reactors, highly efficient mixers, and advanced heat and mass transfer devices. Meanwhile, process intensification methods encompass novel or hybrid separation techniques, integrating reactions and separations, optimizing heat exchange, managing phase transitions, and utilizing new process control methods, such as intentional unsteady-state operations.

This course covers complex reaction systems and reactor design, integrating both theoretical concepts and computational tools. Topics include heterogeneous reactions i.e. fluid-particle, fluid-fluid; fluidized bed reactors; bubble column reactors and multiphase reactors (slurry, trickle bed, moving bed). It also addresses biochemical reaction engineering and catalytic reactions. The course emphasizes reactor design using computational tools to optimize reactor performance and efficiency across various systems.