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Continuous Flow Hydrogenations for the Chemical Manufacturing Industry

Friday, 6 October 2023 at 14:30

Add to Calendar ▼2023-10-06 14:30:002023-10-06 15:30:00Europe/LondonContinuous Flow Hydrogenations for the Chemical Manufacturing IndustryFlow Chemistry Asia 2023 in Tokyo, JapanTokyo, JapanSELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com

Our group at CSIRO has developed a new structured catalyst reactor system, termed Catalytic Static Mixers or CSMs, which is based on 3D printed metal scaffolds coated with a noble metal catalyst such as Pt, Pd, Ni, Ru or others. These tubular reactors are used in continuous flow hydrogenations for the chemical manufacturing industry as well as for hydrogen reforming on demand. With the help of computational fluid dynamics, the structure of the mixer lattice can be optimised for a range of different outputs, such as minimised pressure drop, maximised heat transfer or optimised mixing. CSMs can be classified as a hierarchical catalyst system, whereby different length scales are addressed by different preparation methods; cm-, mm- and µm-scale features are formed by the 3D printing process and classical engineering design while certain µm- and nm-scale features are created during the catalyst preparation and deposition procedures. This results in a highly efficient and versatile catalyst platform which can be used in a broad range of different applications including homogeneous liquid phase, emulsion, liquid-gas and gas phase processes.

Christian Hornung, Research Group Leader, CSIRO

Christian H. Hornung is a Group Leader and Principal Research Scientist at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) in Melbourne, Australia, which he joined in 2010. He received a Masters degree in Chemical Engineering from the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen, Germany in 2004 and his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Cambridge University, UK in 2008, where he worked in the groups of Prof. Malcolm R. Mackley and Prof. Steven V. Ley. Christian has more than 20 years of experience working in flow chemistry for chemical manufacture of APIs, fine chemicals and related industries, on the interface between chemistry and engineering. Christian is the director of FloWorks, CSIRO’s Centre for Industrial Flow Chemistry, which is a $10M technology transfer facility aimed at translating new continuous flow processes into production. Christian’s research interest includes microreactor engineering, additive manufacturing, organic synthesis, heterogeneous catalysis, machine learning and polymer chemistry and he is currently leading a large multi-institutional effort to build a renewable hydrogen ecosystem using chemical hydrogen storage in Australia. Most recently Christian has been awarded an International Hydrogen Research Fellowship from the Australian Government, which allowed him to conduct several months of research at the collaborating Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany.