High-Pressure Polymer Reaction Engineering
Project Description
The group is working in the field of high-pressure polymerization technique with a strong interaction between experiment and simulation. Due to the limited time, the project should focus on one of both.
Potential experimental focus:
- operation of high-pressure polymerization miniplant
- kinetic studies on polymerization systems with ethylene and various additives (comonomers, chain-transfer agents)
- safety assessment of process phenomena on miniplant scale
- measurement of thermophysical parameters such as heat capacity or density at process conditions
Potential modeling focus:
- deterministic process simulation for the description of the polymerization kinetics as well as mass-, heat- and impulse-balance with the software Predici
- stochastic modeling of the microstructure of macromolecules (self-coded)
- computational fluid dynamics (CFD) of the mixing characteristics in polymerization reactors
The project is supervised by Prof. Dr. Markus Busch and co-supervised by M.Sc. Emil Schwarz. For more information please visit the working groups homepage (https://www.chemie.tu-darmstadt.de/busch/index.en.jsp).
Additional Information
| Capacity | 1 IREP student |
| Project available for | Spring, Summer and Fall 2024 |
| Credits | 18 ECTS |
| Available via Remote | No |
