Code
01D04121
Duration
01 October 2021 → 31 October 2021
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Engineering and technology
- Heterogeneous catalysis
- Chemical kinetics and thermodynamics
- Modelling, simulation and optimisation
Keywords
Heterogeneous catalysis
Recycling
Reaction modelling and optimization
Machine Learning
Automatic kinetic modelling
Project description
The recycling of plastics is a major challenge in moving to a circular economy. With the catalytic pyrolysis of plastic waste, it is the objective to recycle this waste stream to valuable light olefins. By modelling the reaction and the catalyst behaviour, new catalyst designs will be proposed. As a result, a higher yield of the desired chemicals is expected.