Welcome to the Home Page of the
Catalytic
Process Engineering group
IR picture of our experimental channel reactor during heat-up and cool-down.
Our mission
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To develop new processes for recovering energy
and valuable products from organic waste
and biomass.
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To better understand and to improve state-of-the-art technologies
for providing liquid and gaseous energy carriers (fuel processing).
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To develop novel clean and energy-efficient chemical processes for
the production of transportation fuels
using heterogeneous catalysts.
Our expertise
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Developing heterogeneous catalysts for catalytic partial oxidation (CPOX), autothermal reforming (ATR), preferential
CO oxidation (PROX), and hydrothermal gasification (SCWG).
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Screening, characterizing and testing
of commercial and proprietary catalysts at transient
or steady-state conditions using advanced in-situ and ex-situ methods.
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Developing high-pressure processes for the hydrothermal gasification
of organic wastes and biomass to synthetic natural gas (SNG) and hydrogen.
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Studying chemical conversions in sub- and supercritical
water.
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Modeling of catalytic reactions and reactors (kinetics,
heat and mass transfer, fluid flow)
Our achievements
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Development of a noble metal-based catalyst for low temperature (< 700°C) autothermal reforming (ATR) of gasoline
to hydrogen.
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Development of a PROX catalyst for converting CO
to CO2 in the presence of hydrogen (4 vol% CO to < 40
ppmv in one step).
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Successful demonstration of the “shift-less”
ATR concept for the on-board production of electricity from
gasoline using an ATR-PROX-PE Fuel Cell link-up.
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Tar- and coke-free gasification
of wood sawdust to a methane-rich gas (SNG) in one step via catalytic
hydrothermal gasification.
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Development of a plate reactor for controlling highly
exo- and endothermic reactions.
- Development of an optically accessible channel reactor for measuring
surface temperatures and concentration profiles along a catalyst plate.
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