1. PROCESS SYSTEMS ENGINEERING GROUP
Process modelling
Including thermodynamic modelling
Process optimization and control
Process simulation and design
Systems biology
Førsteamanuensis
Tore Haug-Warberg
Professor
Heinz Preisig
Førsteamanuensis
Nadi Skjøndal-Bar
Professor
Sigurd Skogestad
Professor II
Krister Forsman,
Perstorp
1 postdoc
5 PhD students (+2 disputas)
16 Master students

2. CORE SUBJECTS PROCESS SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
Modelling
Optimization
Simulation, computation & programming
Control & operation
Design & synthesis
Subjects expected to remain relevant and growing in importance
over the next 50 years +
Problem: Subjects not “hot”
Closer cooperation with other groups desired

3. From Hey-Hawkins report on
Review of basic research in Chemistry in Norway (2009)
Scientific Quality and Productivity
5/3*)
Relevance and Societal Impact 5
Strategy, Organisation and Research Cooperation
5,5,4**)
*) first number leading scientist(s)/second number the average of the group
**) separate numbers for strategy, organisation, research cooperation
Recommendations
Currently the core competence of the Process Systems Engineering Group is modelling and the application of models to control and optimisation problems. The group focusses on research questions dealing with process analysis and optimisation rather than with process synthesis. It seems that the department’s strong history in conceptual design received a lower priority in the recent past. Reactivating the strong activity centred on process systems engineering PROST as envisaged by the group could provide a chance to reinvest in this research area. Any future strategic appointments of new professors should then target at getting the best scientists in this field.
Entering the new area of systems biology should be regarded as a first step towards transferring research results from chemical industry into the field of biotechnology. Modelling and simulation of biotransformation processes including the downstream section would offer a variety of new research topics for the group, of which modelling and simulation of solids handling processes is most challenging.

4. UNDERVISNING
3rd year courses
TKP4140 Separation Technology (Skogestad 50%)
TKP4106 Process modelleing (Preisig + Haug-Warberg)
TKP4195 Thermodynamic methods (Haug-Warberg)
Felleslab (Preisig)
4th year courses
TKP4140* Process control (Skogestad)
TKP Chemical process systems engineering (Preisig)
TKP System modellering og analyse i Biologi (Bar)

5. Bemanning (år fyller 70)
Preisig (2021)
Skogestad (2025)
Hillestad (2026)
Haug-Warberg (2028)
Fremtidige kandidater:
Johannes Jäschke (søker subsea-stilling) +?