Generative Artificial Intelligence in Chemical Process Engineering

Video of a IChemE webinar on "Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Chemical Process Engineering​"
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Artur Schweidtmann
20. February 2024
​​It is envisioned that generative artificial intelligence (AI) will have a huge impact on chemical process engineering. Generative AI has gained immense traction across diverse sectors, exemplified by remarkable achievements such as ChatGPT's language generation and GitHub Copilot's code generation. Generative AI also holds immense potential to reshape chemical process engineering by offering advanced data handling, modeling, and decision-support capabilities, ultimately driving innovation and efficiency in the industry. However, there are only limited applications in chemical engineering so far. Promising applications are proposed for generative AI in process engineering including autocompletion of flowsheets, autocorrection of engineering documents, P&ID generation, and AI-assisted HAZOPs.
​It is felt there is a need to conduct research and development in three main areas to ultimately develop useful generative AI tools in our domain: data, information representation, and model architectures including mechanistic information.

[@MNaumanUllah]

Hi Prof. Artur MS,
That was a great session. Really enjoyed the amazing insights of GenAI into process Engineering. I hope you will lead these fundamentals to the production level. Looking forward to great exposure as well in terms of hands on experience courses. Peace out.

[@ProcessIntelligenceResearch]

Thanks a lot for your comment. We also hope to contribute towards further development of the methods. I am positive that we will see some of the feature in future engineering software.
Best,
Artur

[@sadikachoudhury7210]

Concise and useful overview. Thankyou 👏

[@ProcessIntelligenceResearch]

Thanks for your kind comment.

[@legendud1942]

Sir I'm currently studying bachelor's in chemical engineering from reputed college in india and I'm interested in your work after my degree can i get chances to work under your guidance #ChemCommunity

[@ProcessIntelligenceResearch]

thanks a lot for your interest in our research. Please feel free to reach out to me via email. At TU Delft, we offer a master (MSc) program in chemical engineering. This might be relevant. in this master program, we also offer a course on AI in chemical engineering. Please note that we currently do not accept internships for bachelor students due to a limited capacity in our group.