Research

The research of FCRE focuses on fundamentals of the discipline of chemical reaction engineering and consists of two main directions, that is gaining fundamental understanding of multiphase flows and development of novel reactors. Each of these topics is explained below, along with the most important tools, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and various experimental techniques.

The diagram depicted above shows the two main areas of interest of our group and the two principal tools mentioned before. These four subjects form the backbone of our group and this is what all research topics are based on.

Cooperating Research Schools & Institutes

FCRE participates in the Dutch Graduate School on Process Technology (OSPT) and the Dutch Research School for Fluid Mechanics (J.M. Burgerscentrum). Our main area of interest is the quantitative description of transport phenomena (including fluid flow) and the interplay with chemical transformations in multiphase chemical reactors. The generation of new knowledge and the development of new reactor models with improved predictive capability for this industrially important class of chemical reactors is an important goal of our research activities. FCRE cooperates with many national and international academic and industrial partners. Within the University of Twente most of our research cooperation takes place within the Institute of Mechanics, Processes and Control Twente (IMPACT).