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.
Anna Klünker and colleagues from Leuphana University Lüneburg, HAW Hamburg and TUHH use a transfer operator method to uncover dynamical compartments in a stirred tank reactor and quantify the mixing between them with a Markov state model, in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research.
Johannes Gmeiner and colleagues from the University of Hamburg reinforce organogel beads with iron(III) ions, raising the compressive Young modulus by a factor of 378 while keeping the swelling fully reversible, in Polymer International.
Sri Sannihita Chavali and colleagues from TUHH and Kiel University compare Aerographite with graphite as a cathode material for electroautotrophic biofilms, addressing two bottlenecks in oxic microbial electrosynthesis, in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research.
Nanning Jaeschke and colleagues from TUHH and Rice University assess PC-SAFT parametrisations and network models for the equilibrium swelling of pNIPAM lyogels in multicomponent solvents, in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research.
Nanning Jaeschke and colleagues from TUHH and Rice University develop a numerically robust framework for gel phase equilibria that combines PC-SAFT with polymer-network elasticity, in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research.
Tom Liebing and colleagues from TUHH present a fully embedded, low-cost electrical impedance tomography platform for the in situ monitoring of reactive media in laboratory-scale reactors, in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research.
Vivien Jesenofsky and colleagues from TUHH show that limiting oxygen availability redirects electron flow in Cupriavidus necator, enabling growth-decoupled biotransformations with up to 93 percent molar conversion, in Bioresource Technology.
Johannes Gmeiner and colleagues from the University of Hamburg and TUHH prepare chemoresponsive organogel beads by UV droplet polymerisation and study how quickly they swell and shrink when the solvent changes, in Macromolecules.
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.
