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Chemical Technology

The Laboratory for Chemical Technology (LCT) integrates chemical science and engineering in its research on catalysis, polymerization, kinetics, reactor design and process design. LCT is part of the Department of Materials, Textiles and Chemical Engineering within the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture at Ghent University in Belgium and member of the Centre for Sustainable Chemistry (CSC) of Ghent University. LCT aims at research excellence and bottom-up innovation in the framework of technological, industrial, and societal challenges.

Yi Ouyang is awarded FWO postdoc fellowship

(30-06-2020)

The project of Yi Ouyang is entitled "Visualization, Modelling and Computation Based Process Intensification of CO2 Capture" and deals with transport processes at different scales using advanced visualization technologies and multiscale simulations to drive model-based design and innovation. The project aims to understand the gas-liquid mass transfer and develop a gas-liquid process intensification equipment, namely the vortex unit, in the CO2 capture context. Combining fundamental experiments and computational fluid dynamics analysis can bring its design and efficiency to an unprecedented level. A data-driven framework for reactor geometry optimization will be built by coupling the auto mesh generation, numerical solver, and optimization algorithm to focus on the trade-off of energy cost and CO2 capture efficiency. We envision a new and intensified technology that allows viable and cost-effective CO2 separation for economically justifiable capture and conversion of CO2 into useful chemicals.