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 projects, publications related to the CRC, upcoming events and career opportunities within the Collaborative Research Center.
As part of our CRC seminar series, Professor Takors gave an inspiring lecture on "Utilizing CO and CO2 containing off-gas in gas fermentation: Scaling from lab to production scale – and back".
Dominique Lumpp and colleagues from the University of Hamburg and the TU Hamburg show how the carbon support and preparation route steer the performance of bimetallic Ru-Cu catalysts for converting glycerol into 1,2-propanediol, in ChemistryOpen.
Hossein Ostovar and colleagues from TUHH introduce a physics-aware machine learning framework that decodes electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements and reduces data acquisition from minutes to under six seconds, in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research.
Kayla Dittmer and colleagues from TUHH have published new results on the immobilisation of formate dehydrogenase on pH-, temperature- and dual-responsive hydrogel carriers, demonstrating their potential as smart enzyme carriers, in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research.
Kathrin Eckert and colleagues from TUHH show that stimuli-responsive hydrogel carriers fully recover enzyme activity after pH changes in a plug-flow reactor, while non-responsive silica carriers do not, in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research.
Kayla Dittmer and colleagues at the Hamburg University of Technology present a buffer-free way to control the pH of enzymatic urea hydrolysis using dissolved carbon dioxide, guided by a coupled modelling and experimental approach.
In a new publication in Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification, Leandros Paschalidis and colleagues from TUHH show that CO2 desorption can occur well below the temperatures required for conventional steam stripping, opening pathways to low-temperature solvent regeneration.
As part of our CRC seminar series, Professor Pirker gave an outstanding lecture on "Real-time recurrence CFD simulations in the realm of SMART Reactors".
The spokesperson of the CRC 1615 SMART Reactors from TU Hamburg was welcomed by the CRC/TRR 287 BULK-REACTION at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg for giving a lecture on the future of SMART reactors.
Vamika Rathi and Daniel Ruprecht from TUHH extend a multi-step numerical algorithm to solve the full Maxey–Riley–Gatignol equation in three-dimensional flows including gravity, in Proceedings in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics.
