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The implementation of new technologies in production plants often causes negative side effects and drawbacks. In this context, the prediction of the secondary problems and risks can be used advantageously for selecting best solutions for intensification of the processes. The proposed method puts primary emphasis on systematic and fast anticipation of secondary problems using patent documents, and on extraction and prediction of possible engineering contradictions within novel technical systems. The approach comprises three ways to find secondary problems: (a) direct knowledge-based identification of secondary problems in new technologies or equipment; (b) identification of secondary problems of prototypes mentioned in patent citation trees; and (c) prediction of negative side effects using the correlation matrix for invention goals and secondary problems in a specific engineering domain.
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The authors wish to thank the European Commission for supporting their work as part of the research project “Intensified by Design® platform for the intensification of processes involving solids handling” within international consortium under the H2020 SPIRE programme.
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Livotov, P., Mas’udah., Sarsenova, A., Chandra Sekaran, A.P. (2019). Identification of Secondary Problems of New Technologies in Process Engineering by Patent Analysis. In: Chechurin, L., Collan, M. (eds) Advances in Systematic Creativity. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78075-7_10
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