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.

News CRC 1615

18.10.2024

One year of excellent research in the Collaborative Research Center "SMART Reactors" in Hamburg!

Time to come together and discuss the exciting results and challenges along the way!
01.10.2024

New publication available online!

PhD candidate Christian Weiland and Professor Michael Schlüter from the Institute of Multiphase Flows Flows at the Hamburg University of Technology together with Professor Alexandra von Kameke from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Production Management at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences have presented their latest results on trajectory-based breakup modelling for dense bubbly flows.
23.09.2024

CRC SMART Reactors at the Climate Congress 2024 at TUHH

During the congress under the motto "Face Climate Change", different aspects of climate change, innovative solutions and adaptation strategies will be presented and discussed.
06.09.2024

1st CRC Summer School on "Reactor Design" at Hamburg University of Technology!

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.
30.08.2024

Outstanding presentations from CRC SMART Reactors researchers at the CHISA 2024!

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!
Award Winners Christian Weiland (TUHH) and Tereza Semlerová (ICPF) with Sandra Orvalho