The 17th international SPHERIC workshop took place from 26 June to 30 June in Rhodes, Greece. Niklas Bürkle, Matthias Haber, Karthik Muthukumar and Markus Wicker presented their current research work on smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) and other particle methods for the ITS. 

With a contribution on the simulation of film flows in falling film reactors, Karthik Muthukumar demonstrated how the reaction rates of such reactors can be increased. They are used to absorb CO2 and thus help applications that cannot be operated without CO2 emissions to capture the CO2 from the exhaust gases, prevent it from being emitted into the atmosphere and use it instead for other processes, such as the production of synthetic green hydrocarbon-based fuels. The result of the simulations is that textured structures on the reactor walls can help to continuously stabilise the liquid film and thus ensure a longer and improved exchange of the CO2 gas with the absorbing liquid.

New ideas were gathered and contacts were made on specific topics. The pleasant, sunny Mediterranean atmosphere of the conference certainly contributed to the positive impression.The SPH developers and users of the ITS are already looking forward to meeting again at SPHERIC 2024 in Berlin.