FME CTU in Prague, Department of Process Engineering

The Department of Process Engineering of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague is engaged in designing technologies, design and construction of machinery and equipment for food, chemical and process industries, ecology and waste treatment technologies. The scientific and research activities of the Department are concerned with the processes, machines and equipment for momentum, heat and mass transfer, related with cleaning and refining synthetic gases and gaseous emissions.

(i) Reactors and bioreactors Process-intensified reactors, photo- and photobio-reactors for multiphase flows, modern, process and energy-effective mixing systems, innovative multiphase contactors, experimental and numeric analysis of simultaneous transfer phenomena, dynamic process modelling.

(ii) Heat transfer apparatuses Experimental identification and numeric modelling of transfer phenomena, design and rating calculations, mass and energy balancing, and heat recovery, development of heat exchangers for special applications, design and optimization of heat transfer surface shapes, experimental and numeric analysis, ohmic and microwave heating for special applications.

(iii) Special treatment of biomass and flue gases Grinding and milling of brittle and fibrous materials - experimental particle size analysis, modelling specific energy requirements and particle characteristics. Reactors for hydrothermal pre-treatment - experimental studies concerning product quality, effect of cooling/rapid batch decompression, numeric and dynamic process modelling. Experimental analysis and designing simulation models of hybrid technologies for CO2 capture in concept membrane-X for industrial flue gases.

(iv) Biopolymers, bioplastics, biocomposites. Forming and mixing of substances. Mechanical, thermo-physical and rheological properties of formed substances. Experimental analysis, numerical modelling and simulation of process characteristics for its production by extrusion, injection moulding, and stamping. Design, optimisation and scale-up of equipment.Sustainable design of processing lines, energy recovery.

(v) Virtual model technologies - digital twins Design of model technologies, e.g. CO2-to X, Power-2-X strategies, energy optimization of technological sets or production lines. The impact on safety, energy recovery by PINCH analysis, use of renewable energy systems, and a lifetime of the technology. Virtual digital twins or model technologies in the form of parametric models concerning P&D standards. Techno-economic studies and sensitivity analysis on process parameters.

Thus our interest and support of consortiums can be found in: TRI 3: Storage technologies, renewable fuels and CCU/CCS -> Call Module 4: Carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) -> Call Module 5: Hydrogen and renewable fuels