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, PhD candidate Muhammad Adrian has successfully developed a 32-channel receive coil array for the large-bore vertical 3T MRI scanner at TUHH.
Prof. Michael Schlüter, spokesperson of the CRC 1615 from TUHH, delivered a keynote speech on the topic "Trajectory-Based Optimisation of SMART Reactors".
The latest results from the collaborative research between several institutes of the CRC are presented in this open access paper, focusing on the role of crosslinking, copolymerization, and solvent in the swelling kinetics of pNIPAM lyogels.
The guest from Milano/Italy gave an outstanding talk on "Bubble column fluid dynamics: a multi-scale perspective towards smart bubble column reactors" at the CRC seminar.
