On the 5th and 6th of September, the 1st Summer School of the CRC 1615 SMART Reactors took place, focusing on the design of chemical reactors and bioreactors.

Three presentations were given by Yan Jin, Christian Weiland, and Michael Schlüter from the Institute of Multiphase Flows during the 27th International Congress of Chemical and Process Engineering in Prague, Czech Republic. For his talk, Christian Weiland was awarded with the Best Lecture Award 2024 of the ECFE Working Party on Multiphase Flow!

Our CRC team presented two posters at this year’s BioCheMEET conference, chaired by Prof. Dr. Johannes Gescher and hosted by Gescher's Lab of Technical Microbiology at TUHH, focusing on latest research in microbial extracellular electron transfer.

Kathrin Eckert, Dr.-Ing. Simon Müller and Professor Irina Smirnova from the Institute of Thermal Separation Processes at the Hamburg University of Technology together with Professor Gerrit Luinstra from the Institute for Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry at the University of Hamburg have published their latest results on the exploration of swelling equilibria of pNIPAM lyogels in various organic solvents and mixtures.

CRC SMART Reactors had the honor of hosting Professor Walter G. Chapman from Rice University (Houston, US) at the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH).

Researchers from the groups of Prof. Raimund Horn from the Institute of Chemical Reaction Engineering at the Hamburg University of Technology and Prof. Jakob Albert from the Institute of Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry at the University of Hamburg shared their latest on a compact profile reactor for CO2 hydrogenation.

The research group “Multi Scale Modelling of Multi-Phase Flows” from the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry at Eindhoven University of Technology visited our CRC “SMART Reactors” at TUHH. Insights into their latest advancements in the development of reactor models for multiphase reactors were presented.

PhD candidate Christoph Wigger presented a poster on the integration of lattice structures in chemical reactors paving the way for enhanced efficiency and sustainability at the meeting in Bremen.

PhD candidate Julio Urizarna-Carasa, technomathematics student Leon Schlegel and Professor Daniel Ruprecht from the Institute for Mathematics at the Hamburg University of Technology have shared their latest results on numerical methods for the Maxey-Riley equations with Basset history term.