ABOUT US
Digitalization & CAPE concept
Today’s digital tools offer more than just a database for steering your shift workers or spreadsheets for checking monthly economical balances. A mathematical model of a production line or its key elements allows for steering of the process or product properties in measures previously not imagined. However, a useful models and digital tools require solid understanding of the underlying physics and chemistry of the processes. For such purposes modern digital tools come into play. CAPE stands for Computer Aided Process Engineering and we are a company devoted to deliver such tools into simulation in process and chemical engineering.
Our skills & expertise for your process
We focus on digital approaches for description of momentum, heat and species transfer as well as reaction kinetics in industrial and laboratory equipment. Our knowledge stems from 15+ years of experience in modelling by developing and utilizing the state-of-the-art tools inside and in cooperation with the largest chemical companies in the world (e.g., BASF SE, LyondellBasell) and institutions for research and development (ETH Zurich, Princeton and Iowa State Universities or Technical University of Denmark). Our original background is polymer reaction engineering; however, over the years our focus has expanded to into areas of reaction kinetics, thermodynamics, hydrodynamics, mixing, process scale-up, multi-phase flows and biological systems. Our toolbox comprises of process simulations, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), reaction kinetics modelling, large data analysis, and optimization, as well as multi-scale approaches for spatially and temporary complex systems.
What to expect
Based on your expectations and a preliminary economic analysis, we readily investigate of your problems and propose solutions with the help of mathematical models, which are validated with available experimental data. Such approaches can be utilized for evaluation of your process data, optimization of your current line, troubleshooting or design of new apparatuses for polymer, bio-, petro- and electrochemical productions. Based on generated understanding we provide clear steps for improving the process/product quality, or develop digitalization tools that allow you to do so yourself.
Our way forward
We believe that mathematical modelling is the first-to-go-for option in current world, where digital technologies have a major impact throughout the society. Reliable simulation and data processing adds value for safe and profitable steering of industrial processes or/and research work. Our motto “model first, test later” describes the top-notch approach for cost-saving, sustainable, and climate-friendly problem solving in 21st century.
Michal Vonka
Michal received PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of Chemistry and Technology Prague in 2016, spending one year of his studies in the group of Prof. Morbidelli at ETH Zürich. In 2016 he obtained Fourier Prize for his contribution to multi-scale modelling of heterophase polymer systems. Until 2022 Michal worked as a research and digitalization engineer in BASF SE, where he gained a strong expertise in CFD and had an opportunity to work on a wide palette of projects, ranging from design of polymerization reactors, scale-up of state-of-the art laboratory-developed products and technologies, intensification of heat and mass transfer in existing industrial processes etc. His principle topics are polymer reaction engineering, mathematical modelling, process engineering, transport phenomena, phase separation kinetics, multiphase flow, rheology of complex fluids and CFD.
Alexandr Zubov
Saša obatined PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of Chemistry and Technology (UCT) Prague in 2014. Years 2015-2018 he spent as a postdoc and project manager at Process and Systems Engineering Center, Technical University of Denmark, where he was involved in various research topics like model-based design of biosensors and of wastewater treatment plants, optimization of industrial fat-oil splitting columns, development of algorithms for checking consistency of measured thermodynamic data, or modelling of biodegradable polymers industrial production. Since 2020 Saša has been working as an assistant professor at UCT Prague. He is a recipient of Unipetrol Award for MSc thesis (2009) focused on modelling of industrial production of styrene-butadiene rubber by continuous emulsion polymerization. His principle topics are chemical engineering, process modelling and optimization.