Project report: Experimental planning and verification of working fluids (WP 5)

Computer-aided molecular design (CAMD) helps in the reduction of experiments for the selection/design of optimal working fluids. In reducing the number of experiments, solutions obtain by trial and error is replaced by solutions that are based on mixture-process properties. In generating optimal working fluid candidates a database is required that can be simultaneously searched in order to differentiate and determine whether the generated candidates are existing or novel.

Also, the next step upon selection of the candidates is performing experiments in order to test and verify the generated working fluids. If performed properly, the experimental step is solely verification. Experiments can either be performed virtually (in order to further reduce the number of required experiments) and/or physically.

Therefore the objective of this work was the development of a database of existing working fluids and their properties and the development of a design of experiments method for verifying the optimal working fluids generated from CAMD