Performance of Technical Reactors in Dynamic Operation (C08*)

• Subject Area: Chemical and Thermal Process Engineering
• Term: since 2025
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 426888090

The objective of this project is the transfer of lab-scale knowledge into real-world applications. For this, different reactor systems will be operated with complex realistic gas mixtures and under highly dynamic conditions. Simultaneously spatially resolved gas-phase species and temperature profiles inside the catalyst are obtained by the SpaciPro technique. Such insights can be used to develop optimized operation strategies for technical reactors, which exploit the formation of different reac-tion zones along the catalyst bed and hereby maximize product selectivity and catalytic activity.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1441: Tracking the active site in heterogeneous catalysis for emission control (TrackAct)
• Applicant Institution: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Thomas Koch, since 1/2025; Dr. Patrick Lott, since 1/2025