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| Institution | UGent |
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| Code | f679edc2-47ca-475c-8696-fd2e2509915e |
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| Unit | 0016eb38-4374-4747-a43f-c408af2c2d70
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| Begin | 9/1/2019 |
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| End | 8/31/2024 |
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| title nl | OPTIMA: PrOcess intensification and innovation in olefin ProducTion by Multiscale Anaalysis and design
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| title en | OPTIMA: PrOcess intensification and innovation in olefin ProducTion by Multiscale Anaalysis and design
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| Description nl | New manufacturing techniques such as 3D printing have the potential to drastically transform the chemical industry.Novel, complex, integrated reactor designs can now be created, that will allow to unlock alternative chemicalroutes, such as for methane activation. Driven by process intensification and the power of high performancecomputing, this project will enhance heat and mass transfer in advanced chemical reactors by multiscale modellingand experimentation. OPTIMA aims to:(1) develop in silico novel 3D reactor technologies and concepts with significantly improved selectivity and heattransfer by the use of additive manufacturing;(2) generate new fundamental understanding of kinetics, heat transfer and mass transfer by using advanced measuringtechniques for processes of both current and future importance;(3) demonstrate the practical applicability of an open-source multiscale large eddy simulation (LES) platform incombination with finite rate chemistry for turbulent reacting flows;(4) transform the chemical industry by valorising methane and converting it to a platform molecule through oxidativecoupling of methane.OPTIMA will focus on two olefin production processes of industrial and social importance in Europe, the exothermaloxidative coupling of methane and the endothermic steam cracking, demonstrating the universality of the proposednew paradigm. Starting from fundamental experiments and kinetic modelling (WP1), detailed chemistry willbe implemented in an open-source LES multiscale modelling framework (WP2) generating in silico novel 3Dreactor technologies with significantly improved selectivity (WP3). The power of the approach will be ultimatelydemonstrated in a novel, 3D integrated reactor, in which the studied exothermic and endothermic processes arecleverly combined (WP4).OPTIMA will pave the way for designing the 3D reactors of tomorrow and promote the new techniques and tools thatwill be driving innovation in the next decades.
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| Description en | New manufacturing techniques such as 3D printing have the potential to drastically transform the chemical industry.Novel, complex, integrated reactor designs can now be created, that will allow to unlock alternative chemicalroutes, such as for methane activation. Driven by process intensification and the power of high performancecomputing, this project will enhance heat and mass transfer in advanced chemical reactors by multiscale modellingand experimentation. OPTIMA aims to:(1) develop in silico novel 3D reactor technologies and concepts with significantly improved selectivity and heattransfer by the use of additive manufacturing;(2) generate new fundamental understanding of kinetics, heat transfer and mass transfer by using advanced measuringtechniques for processes of both current and future importance;(3) demonstrate the practical applicability of an open-source multiscale large eddy simulation (LES) platform incombination with finite rate chemistry for turbulent reacting flows;(4) transform the chemical industry by valorising methane and converting it to a platform molecule through oxidativecoupling of methane.OPTIMA will focus on two olefin production processes of industrial and social importance in Europe, the exothermaloxidative coupling of methane and the endothermic steam cracking, demonstrating the universality of the proposednew paradigm. Starting from fundamental experiments and kinetic modelling (WP1), detailed chemistry willbe implemented in an open-source LES multiscale modelling framework (WP2) generating in silico novel 3Dreactor technologies with significantly improved selectivity (WP3). The power of the approach will be ultimatelydemonstrated in a novel, 3D integrated reactor, in which the studied exothermic and endothermic processes arecleverly combined (WP4).OPTIMA will pave the way for designing the 3D reactors of tomorrow and promote the new techniques and tools thatwill be driving innovation in the next decades.
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| Qualifiers | - Multiscale Analysis - OPTIMA - |
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| Personal | Van Geem Kevin |
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