U.S.-Germany Cooperative Research: Catalytic Partial Oxidation

0089758Hohn该奖项支持堪萨斯州立大学的Keith Hohn和学生与德国海德堡大学物理系的Olaf Deutschmann合作。由该奖项资助的研究将涉及在毫秒接触时间内甲烷部分氧化的详细建模。高流速条件的建模将有助于更好地理解气体和表面化学以及质量、热量和动量输运的复杂相互作用，从而更好地理解短接触时间反应器。美国小组将获得适合在高流速下建模的实验数据，而德国小组将使用新修改的计算机代码进行模拟。这项联合合作的研究工作为初级研究人员提供了大量的机会，并且在这项提案上所做的工作将有助于使德国和美国研究小组之间的关系制度化。

0089758HohnThis award supports Keith Hohn and students from Kansas State University in a collaboration with Olaf Deutschmann of the Physics Department at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. The research funded by this award will involve detailed modeling of the partial oxidation of methane at millisecond contact times. Modeling of high flow-rate conditions will lead to better understanding of the complex interaction of gas and surface chemistries and of mass, heat, and momentum transport, and thereby to a better understanding of short contact-time reactors. The U.S. group will obtain experimental data suitable for modeling at high flow rates, while the German group will perform simulations with newly modified computer codes. The opportunity this joint, collaborative research effort presents junior researchers is substantial, and the work done on this proposal will help institutionalize the relationship between the German and U.S. research groups.