Advanced Design Project 2025
2025/03/14
In this year's Advanced Design Project, the students designed a methanol steam reforming plant for hydrogen production from March 3 to 14, 2025. The topic was provided in cooperation with the company Evonik, which subsequently enabled the students to visit their site in Marl on March 18.
The Advanced Design Project has a strong international focus, as master students from technical chemistry, students from chemical engineering of Provadis Hochschule Frankfurt, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology (Rapid City, SD, USA) and Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (Terre Haute, IN, USA) took part in the course.
The 71 students from the four institutions worked in eleven small groups on the task of designing a plant to produce hydrogen via steam reforming of green methanol in the context of hydrogen transportation. Over the course of two weeks, the students worked on various topics such as the description of the mass balance, kinetics, separation, heat integration, cost estimation and safety.
The final presentations took place on the last day of the course, during which the students showed their work from the previous two weeks. Afterwards, the course was rounded off at the traditional pizza party with drinks in a social setting.
