The Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE) in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, intends to be a research-driven, design-oriented university of technology, with the primary objective of providing young people with an academic education within the engineering science & technology domain. The university now has 9 departments and provides 12 BSc programs, 30 MSc programs, 8 postdoctoral programs for technological designers (PDEng) and various post-doctoral courses and programs (PhD). The TUE has around 3000 employees, 240 professors, 7200 students, 250 PDEng students and 600 PhD students. Many departments participate in European research programs and the TUE is also a part of the European CESAER, Santander and CLUSTER university networks, and has partnerships with universities around the world.
The Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry is one of the nine departments of the TUE, which has a staff of 240 persons taking care of the education of 350 students and the support of 240 PhD students and postdocs carrying out research in the areas of process and product engineering, polymers and functional materials, macromolecular and organic chemistry, molecular catalysis and reaction design. The research of the Process Systems Engineering group, being a participant in the proposed project, is focused on the design and development of affinity separation process systems. Affinity based separations will be crucial to enable cost-effective recovery of oxygenated platform chemicals from complex mixtures such as bio-liquids. The projects are organized around four central themes: 1) affinity solvent systems, 2) affinity solid systems, 3) system integration and equipment intensification.
The Process Systems Engineering group at TUE is a strategic expansion of the process and product engineering cluster of the department Chemical Engineering and Chemistry. Along with the appointment of Prof.dr.ir. André B. de Haan, 8 PhD projects, several staff members and most of the experimental infrastructure were also transferred from UT to TUE. With this transfer TUE has acquired extensive expertise in affinity separation technology for complex mixtures. Furthermore Prof.dr.ir. André B. de Haan has experience in European affinity separation R&D, which may be evident from the latest contract; NMP3-CT2004-500160 AIMs (“Advanced Interactive Materials by Design”).
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