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 topics of the course are: basics of chemical reactor design, interaction between transport and reaction, design of bench scale reactors, stoichiometry, thermodynamics and kinetics, design of tubular reactor, primer of ab initio techniques, measurement techniques, kinetic modeling and regression analysis, Polymerization, transport phenomena by Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), catalysis, and characterization techniques in catalysis.

The aim of the course is introducing the 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.

More information and registration: info.lct@ugent.be.