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.
Under the guidance of Prof. Alexander Penn at the Institute of Process Imaging, Muhammad Adrian has just successfully developed a prototype 15-channel receive array for the world’s largest vertical 3 Tesla MRI scanner. This array is specifically designed to advance process engineering imaging.
At a CRC seminar held at TUHH, the guest from Potsdam gave an inspiring presentation on "LIFT nanoprinting", in which he discussed the potential of this approach for the manufacturing of intelligent catalytic surfaces in SMART Reactors.
Today the CRC SMART Reactors hosted an online workshop for all of the CRC researcher with Dr. Dorothea Iglezakis from University of Stuttgart and NFDI4Ing, focusing on metadata and ontologies.
On November 19, 2024 our CRC partner Prof. Horn gave a talk on "Measuring Adsorbate Profiles in Heterogeneous Catalytic Reactors by Iso-Potential Operando DRIFTS".
Two of our CRC team members, Vivien Jesenofsky and Sri Sannihita Chavali from the Institute of Technical Microbiology at TUHH attended the 16th Advanced Biofilm Course at the University of Copenhagen (Københavns Universitet), hosted by Prof. Michael Kühl in Helsingør.
