Code
01D23615
Duration
01 October 2015 → 30 September 2019
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Engineering and technology
- Automotive engineering
- Catalysis and reacting systems engineering
- Chemical product design and formulation
- General chemical and biochemical engineering
- Process engineering
- Separation and membrane technologies
- Transport phenomena
- Other (bio)chemical engineering
Keywords
carbon deposition
steam cracking
microkinetic modeling
computational fluid dynamics
Project description
In this work, for the first time a first principles based coking model will be developed to describe catalytic and non-catalytic carbon growth valid under typical pyrolysis conditions on transition metal surfaces. This model will be incorporated in a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code to be able to accurately account for three-dimensional flow phenomena and concentration gradients.