Project Details
Projekt
Multiple in-situ spectroscopic and online chromatographic analysis of liquid phase catalytic processes for automated hybrid data-driven process design, control and optimization
Subject Area
Technical Chemistry
Chemical and Thermal Process Engineering
Chemical and Thermal Process Engineering
Term
since 2023
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 501735683
Process analytical technology (PAT) is an essential part for the monitoring, control and optimization of catalytic processes in real-time. The integration of online-analytical methods right from an early stage of process development on the lab scale is crucial for a comprehensive understandig of reaction systems paralleled with a progressive method-development for later process monitoring and its control at the pilot or technical scale. The overall objective of this subproject is the development and usage of methods for an automated and simultaneous in situ multi-spectral and on-line chromatographic analysis combined with a chemometric data evaluation to provide input-information for a hybrid data-driven process design, control and optimization. To generate amino alcohols and amino acids from alkenes an in-depth understanding of the reaction sequence based on mechanistic studies will be realized along with a full kinetic network analysis to provide rate equations and kinetic parameters for subsequent process design and control carried out in other subprojects. Systematic dynamic pertubation studies are the experimental basis for mechanistic and kinetic network elucidations as well as the identification of critical process variables using strategies for optimal experimental design (OED). Detailed investigations on stability aspects and deactivation pathways of catalyst systems will be also conducted to support achieving a stable and robust process.
DFG Programme
Research Units
Co-Investigator
Professor Dr. Klaus Neymeyr
