Project description DEENESFRITPL Changing the chemical industry with additive manufacturing Novel additive manufacturing and 3D printing technologies are paving the way for improved development and construction of parts in many sectors. As a result, there is increased demand for methodologies, parts or technologies utilising these breakthroughs. In this context, the EU-funded OPTIMA project will develop novel 3D reactor technology for chemical reactors that employ additive manufacturing. This technology promises to improve selectivity and heat transfer from its rivals and expand our knowledge of mass transfer, kinetics and heat transfer. The project will show the advantages of incorporating a large eddy simulation platform with finite rate chemistry for turbulent reacting flows. It will reshape the chemical industry through a novel methane conversion into a platform molecule process. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective New manufacturing techniques such as 3D printing have the potential to drastically transform the chemical industry. Novel, complex, integrated reactor designs can now be created, that will allow to unlock alternative chemical routes, such as for methane activation. Driven by process intensification and the power of high performance computing, this project will enhance heat and mass transfer in advanced chemical reactors by multiscale modelling and experimentation. OPTIMA aims to:(1) develop in silico novel 3D reactor technologies and concepts with significantly improved selectivity and heat transfer by the use of additive manufacturing;(2) generate new fundamental understanding of kinetics, heat transfer and mass transfer by using advanced measuring techniques for processes of both current and future importance;(3) demonstrate the practical applicability of an open-source multiscale large eddy simulation (LES) platform in combination with finite rate chemistry for turbulent reacting flows;(4) transform the chemical industry by valorising methane and converting it to a platform molecule through oxidative coupling of methane.OPTIMA will focus on two olefin production processes of industrial and social importance in Europe, the exothermal oxidative coupling of methane and the endothermic steam cracking, demonstrating the universality of the proposed new paradigm. Starting from fundamental experiments and kinetic modelling (WP1), detailed chemistry will be implemented in an open-source LES multiscale modelling framework (WP2) generating in silico novel 3D reactor technologies with significantly improved selectivity (WP3). The power of the approach will be ultimately demonstrated in a novel, 3D integrated reactor, in which the studied exothermic and endothermic processes are cleverly combined (WP4). OPTIMA will pave the way for designing the 3D reactors of tomorrow and promote the new techniques and tools that will be driving innovation in the next decades. Fields of science natural sciencesphysical sciencesclassical mechanicsfluid mechanicsfluid dynamicsengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringcomputer hardwaresupercomputersnatural scienceschemical sciencesorganic chemistryaliphatic compoundsengineering and technologymechanical engineeringmanufacturing engineeringadditive manufacturing Programme(s) H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme Topic(s) ERC-2018-COG - ERC Consolidator Grant Call for proposal ERC-2018-COG See other projects for this call Funding Scheme ERC-COG - Consolidator Grant Coordinator UNIVERSITEIT GENT Net EU contribution € 1 995 000,00 Address Sint pietersnieuwstraat 25 9000 Gent Belgium See on map Region Vlaams Gewest Prov. Oost-Vlaanderen Arr. Gent Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 Beneficiaries (1) Sort alphabetically Sort by Net EU contribution Expand all Collapse all UNIVERSITEIT GENT Belgium Net EU contribution € 1 995 000,00 Address Sint pietersnieuwstraat 25 9000 Gent See on map Region Vlaams Gewest Prov. Oost-Vlaanderen Arr. Gent Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00
