Welcome to the DFG Collaborative Research Center CRC 1615 SMART Reactors
We are facing the societal challenges of transforming economic and production chains from fossil raw materials to sustainable and renewable raw materials. However, these can fluctuate seasonally and geologically in their availability and quality. Society therefore urgently needs processes and reactors that can respond flexibly to fluctuating raw material properties. To enable such adaptation, a very high level of process control is required: pressures, temperatures, concentrations and dispersed phases must be monitored continuously and in situ in the reactors using suitable sensors.
As part of the Collaborative Research Center, we aim to address this issue and enable SMART reactors through basic research. In the future, the SMART reactors will convert sustainable renewable resources into different products (multi-purpose) in a more sustainable way and operate autonomously (self-adapting), which will lead to more resilient processes that are more transferable between scales and locations.
To achieve our vision, interdisciplinary collaboration between process engineering, materials science and electrical engineering with physicists, chemists, mathematicians and data scientists from Hamburg University of Technology and five research institutions enables the focusing of expertise and unique experimental facilities.
Within the framework of this website, we would like to give you an insight into the individual subprojects, publications related to the CRC, upcoming events and career opportunities within the Collaborative Research Center.
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.
Using the ERC Advanced Grant, Prof. Dr. ir. Hans Kuipers is pushing the boundaries of CFD/DEM simulation adding solid phase catalytic particles to the bubble flows by further development of the inhouse simulation code FoxBerry. With the help of new models for interactions between different phases the research group aims to make the development of all kinds of industrial three phase reactor designs, including slurry bubble column reactors, to become faster, cheaper and more precise.
After detailed presentations about both the ERC and the CRC, the PhD candidates of each project were given the opportunity to summarize their specific areas of research during the subsequent poster session, resulting in deep exchange and new ideas and connections on an international basis.
