Specialized in reaction engineering and chemical recycling, with a strong emphasis on process development and integration. Expertise encompasses designing tolerant processes for the circular economy, aimed at manufacturing key base chemicals and renewable fuels. Demonstrated success in applying innovative, data-driven strategies to optimize process tolerance and efficiency for diverse industrial applications.
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Rigid to Resilient: The Transformative Power of Tolerant Process Design and Operation.
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Existing productions are efficient but rigid.
Adapting to a changing economic landscape requires integrating tolerance into designs and operations, boosting resilience and readiness for a circular economy.
As the world moves away from a linear and fossil-based economy, it’s becoming clear that our industrial processes are not ready for this change towards the dynamic environment of a circular economy: The existing production processes, while highly efficient, show rigidity and inflexibility as a downside. To adapt and thrive in this new economic landscape, it’s essential to develop and integrate tolerance into our process designs and operations.
Explore our workflow for adapting chemical processes to this new paradigm, emphasizing virtual stress tests and mitigation strategies shown for a case study of a waste-to-methanol process’s tolerance to variable feedstock compositions.
Tolerant processes
are key for the green transition—flexible, resilient, and capable to operate in dynamic environments.
Virtual stress tests
An innovative tool that simulates dynamic conditions, ensuring your chemical processes ready for any future challenge.
Reveal cause-effect chains
Implementing tolerance in processes involves understanding the cause-effect relationship between dynamic input conditions and processes
Integrating Process Tolerance
Process tolerance isn't just for new designs; it's a versatile approach that can be integrated at the early stages of process development or ingeniously retrofitted into existing systems, enhancing their adaptability and resilience.
Optimizing a Chemical Process Through Tolerant Process Design & Operation
The benefits of including tolerant process designand control strategies in a chemical processdevelopment is demonstrated through awaste-to-methanol process. Here, the focus of theprocess tolerance analysis is on maximizingfeedstock utilization and ensuring the highestpossible operational reliability of the plant, whileconsistently meeting product quality standards.
5000
various potential feedstock compositions investigated
96%
achieved plant availability within product specifications
In a rapidly evolving competitive landscape, as highlighted in our recent market studies Sustainable Aviation Fuel and Methanol with a market outlook 2030, the necessity for flexible process design becomes evident.
The industry faces dynamic markets where adaptability is key to quickly respond to changing demands and technologies, like the ones shown in our article Process and Catalytic Systems for Sustainable Aviation Fuel Production.
Dr.-Ing. Maximilian Hungsberg
Technology Expert
Professional Experience
Consulting Focus @ CBR
Techno-economic analyses and feasibility studies focusing on the scalability and integration of renewable energy technologies together with processes for a circular economy
Expert in alternative feedstock (waste, biomass and CO2) utilization through gasification, pyrolysis, and electrolysis, coupled with deep knowledge in downstream processes
Education
PhD in Chemical Engineering, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Master in Chemical Engineering, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Bachelor in Chemistry, TU Darmstadt, Germany
