- Hi, everyone!
This is my friend Ellie.
My best friend she calls herself.
(laughing)
and we're on the beautiful Soca River still.
Ellie is one of the other organizers
of the Students for Rivers Camp.
And she's also a process engineer,
so today we wanted to talk about process engineering
and kind of, like, dismantle some, I don't know,
thoughts about what it is
because I actually don't really know
what process engineering is,
and I'm here with an expert because she has
a master's in process engineering.
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I guess the first question would be,
what is process engineering?
- Well, that's a really good question because
I have asked that question to myself
a lot and also to other people,
and it's a bit lengthy because it's so broad.
But, basically, it covers all the basics of engineering
as we discuss the covering a lot of also
mechanical engineering parts in the beginning.
And then, once you go more into detail
of actual process engineering,
it's basically about developing
or optimizing industrial processes,
but it can really go into any direction of industry,
I'd say.
- Can you give examples of what sort of
industrial fields other students go into?
Or is it really everything?
Or is there kind of like different categories
that you can follow?
- Yeah, the categories are like
probably mechanical processes or chemical processes.
For example, lots of students go into pulp and paper
industry or chemical industry or wherever you need
a big plan that you need to figure out
how the pipes go and the lines go
and what are the actual chemical processes happening inside.
- And you said something about efficiency?
- Yeah, exactly.
Process engineering is not only about
developing a new process but very often
about optimizing your process,
which would be energy efficiency
or heat recovery as well as having a better product output
or a better reaction rate, something like that.
- Okay, so it sounds like basically design
and product design is kind of like
the manufacturing, engineering,
and mechanical side of things,
and then you have chemical processes.
Is that also like a process engineer
could work for a nuclear power plant?
- Potentially because you need a process engineer
pretty much everywhere where you....
Because, I don't know, people have the idea,
"Okay, we want to do this, but how are we going to do it?"
Then you have a process engineer to actually develop
the process on how to get there.
- Oh, okay.
So it's not just like, if you....
It kind of sounds like business entrepreneurship.
I don't know, I'm thinking if you have
an electrical component, like you want to build
this component, maybe an electrical engineer designs it
and then the process engineer is like,
"Okay, we need to get the tools,
"we need to get the--"
- How to install it and it's also about process safety,
like you need to think a little bit further
than just how to make things,
but it should, like, the first question
that we get asked in our studies was,
you look at something and you look at problem
and you're like is this even possible?
This could be the main thing that you look at
and then you find ways
to get them.
- Ah! That's cool.
So, out of all the engineering disciplines,
why did you choose process engineering?
- That's a good question.
So it starts way back because I went to a school
which doesn't have anything to do with
engineering or technical stuff
But then all those questions came.
Where do you see yourself?
What do you want to do?
And all of the social stuff, I was like
no I'm not social because I knew that I wanted
to change something, but I don't want to be
fighting with rapids, which is funny
because now I'm fighting with river too fast.
(both laugh)
But anyways, I figured we need the technology
to actually be environmentally friendly
and stuff like this.
So I figured stuff like environmental tech
engineering would be interesting.
So I found a study program in Leoome
at their Montag University,
which was called industrial environmental engineering,
something like that.
And then I figured out that that's pretty much
process engineering
and then I found
- But why did you chose--
(cough)
study environmental engineering
- Because it wasn't available
(laughs)
- Oh, okay
- And process engineering was the closes.
I ques to have--
- Okay, cool
so it sounds like what process engineering
you probaly go into a lot of different fields or
- Yeah
- Did you do bachelors at Technical University of Grads
- Yeah
- And then you just finished your masters
- Yeah
- So congratulations also me
( both laughs)
- Um
- Thanks for the support
(both laughs)
- And you did your masters thesis
and, in what?
- So for my master thesis.
I've really wanted to have another adventure
because I like adventures
(laughs)
but also I wanted to go and in environmental engineering
so I found this project in Spain` its like
researching that's faster
and I project available for
including like the removal of
um trace components like from citric os and hormones
from which extremes
were I was working at they tackled a lot of things like
um wast bode treatment.
Do experiment with slush
and they had experiments going threw Ozone.
Which is very impressive gas
which very much eliminate every thing from waist water.
So, its our project was to test the hormones
and from suitical waist prodisee
which also nation
so basically you have bubble gum were your waist
water side and your trace components
and your bubble Ozone gas threw
and this really attacks any organic compounds in there
- Wow
- The main problem with this process
it works pretty well already
but there are a few problems
one of them is its not very energy efficient
so you get a produce the Ozone on the spot
because its only stable for like twenty minutes or something
in water so you have to produce and the fraction Ozone
takes a lot of electricity
so we try to make this process more efficient
with so we can put
so like we tried to search for those compounds
first on a calculus and we tried the Ozone gas.
Those compounds and then we combined it
it should resolute anthelical Ozone
and we the different experiments
to see how that goes and how its
and how its better than the C mode process its self
while the finding was all of those processes works
so mainly experimental components really to
get to a point were you could actually see
the degrees in the components
cause there so little
um, amounts and its actually hard to measure
and we and we had to send the--
- Pharmaceutical
- Yeah
- So its the process works well that your pharmaceutical
decrease so much--
- Yeah
- And then you, oh really
- Yeah
- Its really works well
- It really works well, yeah you can say that
but then again your also
you also have the problem of secondary products
in a different dimension of pharmaceuticals
like a very complicated organic compound
and you attack it with Ozone
and then it breaks into two probably
even more toxic compounds
(laughs)
you definitely want to avoid that
so also add research as found
out that you could um attack the
wider compounds--
- Okay
- Get the closer to full the mineralizatiom.
Which would be--
- -better
- Yeah
- Okay, and what do people or company currently
do for hormones and pharmaceutical?
- Yeah, like if you think about that its a bit crazy
because you realse all the waist
but not only in the waist
and you don't know
- Okay
- Anyways you can actually
so many project also thinking
water that coming out of the
directly highest considerations
whih you also found out measure different
(laughs)
- Okay
- Yeah
but switerlan also has actually has a program to get
but anyways for example also in Germany and France
- Okay
but in the next
- But others than our current plans
- That have Ozone is there any other extreme programs
really um
and yeah put the problem
of searching
then you have the the
- Okay and then what the actually process
take the the out
- If you have any question
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