Process Engineering Renewal 3: Prospects

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The chemical processes initially consisted of non-scientific extrapolation methods from the "laboratory". Coming from the oil industry, chemical engineering, now process engineering (material and energy transformation) has introduced scientific rationality in the development of more optimal processes both in financial terms and saving material and energy. At the end of the twentieth century, heavy trends force us to modify our ways of doing matter and/or energies: depletion of reserves, pollution, globalization, artificial intelligence, public perception of risks, etc. Commodities continue to be produced locally while higher value-added products can come from many countries around the world. These external pressures on training and research in the field require major breaks that are the subject of the book. fmatter Cover Half-Title Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Foreword Preface References Introduction 1 1. Between Innovation in Process Engineering and Creativity 1.1. Innovations and process engineering 1.2. Creativity 1.2.1. Creativity and pedagogy 1.3. Innovation and boundary objects 1.4. Teleological approach, convergence, and interdisciplinarity 1.5. A look back at the notion of convergence 1.6. A look back at interdisciplinarity 1.7. The models 1.8. A little complexity 1.8.1. Hyperobjects 1.9. Reaching a decision 1.10. Findings and proposals 1.10.1. Technology: serve and/or partner 1.10.2. How to do or not to do? 1.11. Activities initiated from the “base” 1.11.1. Framing elements 1.11.2. Main results 1.11.3. “Scientific excellence” 1.11.4. Funding and research orientation 1.11.5. Foresight, opportunities for the PE research unit 1.11.6. Collective projects? Risky projects? 1.11.7. Difficulties in the functioning of research 1.11.8. Concluding elements 1.12. Conclusion 1.13. References 2 2. Prospective Elements Applied to the Transformation of Matter and Energy 2.1. From a local to a more global approach 2.2. Some reminders 2.2.1. General framework 2.2.2. In reality… 2.3. Influential trends 2.3.1. Socio-economic context 2.3.2. Innovation and means/ways/needs to support it 2.3.3. Exhaustion of reserves 2.4. Scenarios for tomorrow 2.4.1. Background information 2.4.2. Introduction 2.4.3. The four scenarios 2.4.4. Blocking factors; probable scenario(s) 2.4.5. Potential effects on the development of process engineering 2.5. Conclusion 2.6. References Conclusion Conclusion: Proposals for Tomorrow, or How to Organize the Future? C.1. Introduction C.2. Being an engineer and/or researcher in PE? C.3. What about tomorrow? C.4. References Index Index Other titles from Fm Cover Half-Title Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Foreword Preface References Introduction 1. Between Innovation in Process Engineering and Creativity 1.1. Innovations and process engineering 1.2. Creativity 1.2.1. Creativity and pedagogy 1.3. Innovation and boundary objects 1.4. Teleological approach, convergence, and interdisciplinarity 1.5. A look back at the notion of convergence 1.6. A look back at interdisciplinarity 1.7. The models 1.8. A little complexity 1.8.1. Hyperobjects 1.9. Reaching a decision 1.10. Findings and proposals 1.10.1. Technology: serve and/or partner 1.10.2. How to do or not to do? 1.11. Activities initiated from the “base” 1.11.1. Framing elements 1.11.2. Main results 1.11.3. “Scientific excellence” 1.11.4. Funding and research orientation 1.11.5. Foresight, opportunities for the PE research unit 1.11.6. Collective projects? Risky projects? 1.11.7. Difficulties in the functioning of research 1.11.8. Concluding elements 1.12. Conclusion 1.13. References 2. Prospective Elements Applied to the Transformation of Matter and Energy 2.1. From a local to a more global approach 2.2. Some reminders 2.2.1. General framework 2.2.2. In reality… 2.3. Influential trends 2.3.1. Socio-economic context 2.3.2. Innovation and means/ways/needs to support it 2.3.3. Exhaustion of reserves 2.4. Scenarios for tomorrow 2.4.1. Background information 2.4.2. Introduction 2.4.3. The four scenarios 2.4.4. Blocking factors; probable scenario(s) 2.4.5. Potential effects on the development of process engineering 2.5. Conclusion 2.6. References Conclusion: Proposals for Tomorrow, or How to Organize the Future? C.1. Introduction C.2. Being an engineer and/or researcher in PE? C.3. What about tomorrow? C.4. References Index Other titles from iSTE in Chemical Engineering