Twice a year, in September and February, the Laboratory For Chemical Technology organizes a specialist course. Junior researchers and PhD students will receive basic introduction to the chemical engineering concepts. The focus will be on chemical reactor and reaction engineering with particular attention to catalysis and polymerization reactions. The reactors in which these reactions are investigated range from ideal, laboratory scale equipments to the simulations of commercial scale applications.

The aim of the course is introducing junior researchers to various aspects in the broad field of chemical engineering: chemical reactors, kinetic modelling, catalysis, polymers, acquisition of experimental data etc. The LCT faculty found out that such an introductory course to its core expertise is beneficial/required for starting PhD students in chemical engineering.

Some topics that will be discussed are: 

- Introducing LCT- prof. dr. K.Van Geem
- Measurements techniques- prof. dr. K. Van Geem
- CleanChem a Ugent business develpoment center- dr. S. Dekeukeleire
- Software tools, archive, SharePoint, Software library- K. De Ras
- Catalysis- prof. dr. M. Saeys
- Characterization techniques in catalysis- dr. H. Poelman
- Kinetic modeling and regression analysis- prof. dr. J. Thybaut
- Transport phenomena by CFD- prof. dr. G. Heynderickx
- Tutorial: OpenFaom- S. Madanakishani 
- Stoichiometry, thermodynamics and kinetics- prof. dr. P. Van Steenberge
- Basics of Chemical reactor design - prof. dr. P. Van Steenberge 
- Interaction between transport and reaction - prof. dr. P. Van Steenberge 
- Tutorial: Post processing of experimental kinetic data- L. Vargette 
- Tutorial: Application of the Eurokin spreadsheet- M. Aly
- Polymerization- prof. dr. D. D'hooge 

The next IP2E course will occur on February 2025. For more information, please contact info.lct@ugent.be