Sustainable Process Design Laboratory

We leverage our expertise in optimization and multhyphysics simulations to formulate mathematical models enabling the identification of new, sustainable, and innovative processes, and materials. We are motivated by the grand-challenges in sustainability: (1) the need to develop carbon-neutral processes to produce energy and chemicals, (2) the need to minimize waste generation, and (3) the urgency to find mitigation strategies to alleviate the damage already done. We focus our efforts into two research thrusts: (1) the design of tools and the formulation of models to support the synthesis, analysis, and optimization of sustainable energy systems and processes that use waste materials as feedstock, and (2) the development of methods for analyzing and enabling new separation technologies.