Continuing education program: process engineering for the decarbonization of the Swiss industry

Industries are typically not aware of upgrading potentials due to limited technical information on existing and new processes lack of time or skilled personnel to conduct energy audits pay walled literature, and dispersed methods and proprietary tools An inclusive and sustainable energy transition requires a prevalent formation of highly qualified engineers

Building on two decades experiences, the Industrial Process and Energy Systems Engineering group at EPFL is developing a novel modeling reporting and documentation tool, which aims to facilitate the definition, validation and sharing processes of ex ante models used in the Master of Advanced Studies in Sustainable Energy Systems Engineering The goal is to provide tools to help engineers to propose, assess and communicate the decarbonization pathways and technologies for enabling the energy transition of the Swiss industrial sectors

A database of shareable decarbonization technologies and industrial processes models, as well as the ontologies for unambiguously defining the different models interfaces, were defined. This approach facilitates reporting and reproducibility of the pinch and energy integration analyses applied to real industrial case studies.