After a two-year break from Corona, the Doctoral Students' Days were brought back to life by the Boysen Foundation. We presented our latest results from a joint project with the KIT ITCP. The project is called "Designing Gas-Liquid Contact Reactors for Efficient CO2 Capture".

Gas-liquid contact reactors (GLCs) are one of the core technologies in the chemical industry, playing a crucial role in reactant conditioning, chemical conversion and separation processes. In this project, Mr Karthik Muthukumar and Ms Andrea Düll (ITCP) are developing a high performance falling film reactor for CO2 capture by engineering the way the CO2 in the gas phase mixes with the liquid absorbent at the reactive gas-liquid interface (micromixing phenomena). The main impact of the study will be large-scale performance enhancement, which would pave the way for the transition of CO2 capture technologies into practice.

The work is partly funded by the Boysen Foundation.