Aims & Scope

Aims:

The journal Advanced Chemical Process Analysis (ACPA) is a gold open-access journal that aims to publish topics related to the application of exergy, energy and environmental analyses, digitalization, and simulation of separation and chemical processes, with special emphasis on the generation of green H2 and biogas, which contribute to their design, development, and optimization. Basic and applied research and innovative methodologies used by academics and educators that lead to a better understanding of digitalization and simulation of the current and future professionals of the chemical industry are also welcome. It is published quarterly online by Scilight Press.

Scope:

ACPA will publish innovative papers from around the world focused on the application of simulation through handmade or commercial software to the analysis of chemical processes from the exergy, energy, and environmental perspectives. Studies of relevant processes as those based on the use of renewable energies and/or recycled raw materials (as the production of green H2 and/or biogas, respectively) are welcome. Well-established processes together with the most challenging ones can be analyzed with traditional tools, such as those based on process integration and strategies, such as CAPE-OPEN, to connect different software, and with other most innovative ones, based on methodologies like Digital Twins (AI), Hybrid Models, Automation, Digitalization, etc. Additionally, the design of open and standardized interfaces to connect different applications, to develop procedures based on the management of large data sets, to create efficiently executable surrogate models, or to incorporate life cycle data for automatic environmental updating of processes, can be also considered. In this sense, education tools used for contributing to a better understanding of the digitalization and simulation concepts by future professionals in the chemical industry are also welcome.

ACPA publishes articles that focus on, but are not limited to, the following areas:

  • Advanced analysis of unit operations and chemical processes from the exergy, energy, economic and environmental point of view
  • Processes based on the use of renewable energies (production of green H2)
  • Processes based on the use of recycled raw materials for producing biogas.
  • Automation of simulators through third-party software 
  • Digitalization and big data in the chemical industry
  • Development of surrogate (digital twins) and hybrid models
  • Integration of different tools for the innovative analysis and design of chemical processes
  • Optimization of chemical processes
  • Simulation of chemical process from the microscale to the macroscale