The research group "Photochemical Reaction Engineering" was established in April 2018 as a part of the Institute of Chemical Engineering and works on fundamental investigations, optimization and design of photoreactors as well as photochemical processes. Optimization and design is based on fundamental knowledge of the photon fluxes in the reactors. For this, micro- and millistructured reactors, online-analytical methods, additive manufacturing and numerical simulations are applied as tools. Another topical focus lies on the application of light as tool for investigations in terms of reaction engineering.

An overview can be found here.

Head of Laboratory: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Dirk Ziegenbalg

Equipment

• Modular Industrial Scale Conti-Flow Photoreactor (MISCOP)
• Unsteady Operation of Photoreactions
• Characterization and Control of Photocatalytic Processes within Soft Matter Matrices

• Fundamental Investigations on the Efficiency of Microstructured Photoreactors
• Quinolight
• Photochemical Reactions as Switchable Tool for the Fundamental Investigation of Mass Transfer Processes in Gas-Liquid-Flows