Course description

This course is about learning to design product and process concepts contributing to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s). Supporting methods provided are about environmental impact reduction, closing material cycles, and robustness to future uncertainties.

Topics

• Concept Design
• Sustainable Development Goals and Targets
• Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) for Environmental Impact
• Circular Economy
• Scenario’s for robustness to future uncertainties

 

Takeaways

• Product and Process Concept design methods
• SDG goals and targets tool
• Rapid LCA method
• Circular economy value chain tool
• Industrial Symbiosis method
• Scenario robustness method

 

Your course conductor: ir. Jan Harmsen,

Ir. Jan Harmsen is an independent sustainable process innovation consultant. He has more than 40 years of industrial experience in research, development, design, and commercial scale implementation of processes in oil & gas, bulk chemicals, fine chemicals, food, and minerals and more than 20 years of experience in conducting courses on sustainable product and process design both for university students and industrial practitioners. He is (co)author of books on sustainable industrial processes, engineering for sustainability, product and process design, and industrial process scale-up.

 

Who should attend this course?

• Industrial R&D practitioners in bulk chemicals, fine chemicals, food, Consumer products, paper & pulp, steel, oil refining, biomass processing, Contract Research Organisations, Technology providers, and EPC contractors.
• Product developers
• Product and Process designers

If your position isn’t on this list but you feel you might profit from taking this course, don’t hesitate to ask for admission.

 

Course timing, entrance, fee and means

Course timing 23^rd  and 24^th of June 2020, from 10:00 – 16:00 Central European Time (Amsterdam).

Course entrance is by email to: Jan@harmsenconsultancy.nl

Course fee for the two-day course is € 1500.-  excl. VAT per participant. Maxmimum number of participants: 12.