Projects / Programmes
Separacijski procesi in produktna tehnika (Slovene)
January 1, 2009
- December 31, 2014
| Code |
Science |
Field |
Subfield |
| 2.02.00 |
Engineering sciences and technologies |
Chemical engineering |
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| Code |
Science |
Field |
| 2.04 |
Engineering and Technology |
Chemical engineering
|
Researchers (38)
Organisations (3)
Significance for science
Different fields of activities, merged into the research programme and close cooperation of partners in science and industry has significantly contributed to: - Development of new technologies with supercritical fluids; - Application of dense gasses under high pressure for development of new products with high added value (compounds with biological activities, magnetic nanoparticles, polimers and others); - Fundamental knowledge on binary and ternary phase equilibria in nonideal systems with supercritical fluids; - Fundamental knowledge on mass transfer in systems with supercritical fluids; - Fundamental knowledge on kinetics and equilibria of enzymatic reactions in supercritical fluids and enzyme activity at high pressures; - Producing products with tailor made properties by high pressure micronisation processes (type, shape, stability, content of active ingredient, controlled release time and others); - Design of experiments in laboratory and pilot scale; - Development of different types of heat pumps for exploiting low-temperature heat sources for means of heating buildings, greenhouse, production of sanitary water etc.; - Process development and computer simulation for coal gasification, cleaning of produced syngas, production of synthetic fuels such as: synthetic natural gas, methanol, dimehylether and electrical power; - Fundamental and applicative knowledge in the field of developing heat pumps, efficient environmental protection and economic exploitation of coal.
Significance for the country
Development of new, cleaner routes for production of special chemicals is one of the principal challenges facing chemists and chemical engineers in Slovenia and worldwide. It is vital that EU and Slovenia play a leading role in these developments in case our chemical industry is to benefit fully from the results. Research within the programme offers new technologies with low environmental impact and an increase of domestic knowledge for products with high added value, which are traded in Slovenia and worldwide. Exploiting the unique properties of SCF (transport properties, solvent power etc) could increase the industrial competitiveness of Slovenia, sustainalble economical growth and bring both environmental and economic benefits to Slovenia and wider to European Community. New high-quality and competitive products and technologies could increase the production programme and range, for which new high-technological working places will be available in industry. Consequence of intensive energy consumption and energy dependency is highly pronounced in Europe and also in Slovenia, which is poor in energy sources and is ecologically among the most threatened in Europe. The newly developed heat pump thus represents a major contribution to minimizing energy dependency since it is applicable in all industrial fields, which generate waste heat, which is nowdays nevertheless being lost to the environment. Research and development of coal gasification technology is accelerated due to an increasing price and consumption of fosil fuels in developing countries and due to environmental issues. The energy dependance of Slovenia for importing energents can be decreased through production of synthetic fuels (petrol, diesel, synthetic natural gas, dimethylether) by coal gasification process.
Audiovisual sources (1)
Most important scientific results
Annual report
2009,
2010,
2011,
2012,
2013,
final report,
complete report on dLib.si
Most important socioeconomically and culturally relevant results
Annual report
2009,
2010,
2011,
2012,
2013,
final report,
complete report on dLib.si
