Dr Cihan Ates and M.Sc. Karthik Vigneshwaran Muthukumar presented their 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 and play 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 controlling 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 a large-scale performance improvement that would pave the way for the transition of CO2 capture technologies into practice.

The work is partially funded by the Boysen Foundation.