The Department “Reaction Kinetics” of IHE-3 focuses its scientific activities on investigations into the hydrogenation and dehydrogenation of hydrogen storage compounds. The objective of the work is to develop kinetic models that can be used in other departments at IHE-3 for optimized reaction control, apparatus design and apparatus layout. Challenges include the optimization and description of reactions with strong heat evolution/consumption and significant volume change under the dynamic requirements dictated by the fluctuating availability or demand for hydrogen. High innovation potential arises from the investigation of new hydrogen storage systems (e.g. CO2/dimethyl ether or lactone/diol systems), the use of newly developed catalyst systems (in collaboration with IHE-1 and IHE-2), the application of alternative methods of energy input, and the reaction engineering study of catalyst systems. The latter can be derived from the dynamic requirements resulting from scenario-specific and holistic simulations of hydrogen storage and transport processes (in collaboration with IHE-4).
Head of department (interim) Reaction Kinetics
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