SFB "Bulk-Reaction" succesfully extended
The Collaborative Research Center/Transregio SFB 287 "Bulk Reaction" has been extended for a further four years. The German Research Foundation DFG is providing the research teams at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg and Ruhr University Bochum with 12 million euros for research into energy-intensive industrial processes in the second funding period until 2028. The OvGU Magdeburg will take the place of the Ruhr University Bochum as spokesperson university. The new spokesperson of the SFB 287 is Prof. Dominique Thévenin, the deputy spokesperson is Prof. Evangelos Tsotsas.
The aim of the approximately 40 researchers from the engineering sciences, computer science and physics is to develop experimentally validated computer simulation models for difficult-to-control but very energy-intensive industrial particle conversion processes. In thermal production processes, chemical reactions take place due to the movement of the particles of the raw materials to be processed in the reactor and the flow of a gas. These lead to further processing or refinement of the particles. In future, it should be possible to calculate the use of materials and energy more precisely by estimating and forecasting the processes more accurately, thus significantly reducing the consumption of fossil fuels and CO2 emissions during these particle production processes.
"Predictions based on calculations of chemical reactions between particles and gases still have major weaknesses. In the first funding period of CRC 287, we successfully laid the foundations for improving these calculation methods," says CDS member Prof. Dr. Dominique Thévenin, holder of the Chair of Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Engineering at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, who is the spokesperson for the consortium. "We know pretty well what goes into the reactors, and we also know very well what comes out, but we now want to finally know what is going on inside the reactor." The challenge lies in the exact chemical-physical-mathematical description of the processes in the high-temperature, closed systems despite the presence of several million particles.
In the second funding period, the focus is on renewable energy sources such as hydrogen and biomass as well as the electrification of industrial processes using renewable electricity.
The combination of experimental methods, innovative measurement procedures and numerical analyses of industrial processes is intended to reduce the proportion of reject and energy consumption while improving product quality.
To the official press release of the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg