Standardised solutions lend themselves to efficiencies in construction and the application of DfMA.
We generate very large numbers of options for a particular design requirement, and then get humans back in to look at those critically.. We can generate many more options using automation.Sometimes we find something which human expertise has not spotted.
Generative design can create unexpected options with high value.. We are now working on making Chips available to very large numbers of users through a web interface, to use generative design for pharmaceutical plants.We are also associating process simulation data with those Chips, so that we can look at throughput, and use throughput to define what Chips we need..The Chip as future enabler.
We are often asked what ‘Chip’ stands for.It doesn't stand for anything.
It's based on the idea of a microchip within a computer.
The microchip is the bit that does the hard work.There are benefits to both systems, but CCU has less potential for wasted carbon dioxide.
Both methods have been used at commercial scale with ‘undisputable technical and operational success for decades’ in the North Sea, North America, Australia and elsewhere.Naturally, this isn’t a closed loop; feedstock will always need to be provided.
But given that, as of 2019, carbon feedstock equated to 58% of the usage of carbon-based materials like crude oil and other fossil fuels in the industry, it would be a positive step to use carbon capture to reduce the amount required, and therefore begin to lower the carbon footprint of the industrial plastic produced using these methods..Chemicals such as formaldehyde and potassium carbonate that are used in the production of plastics such as PEEK, POM, PTFE, and PVDF can be produced with captured carbon dioxide instead of fresh carbon feedstock.