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Dear Readers,
Electricity-based processing methods are not new to chemical engineering. Shell
worked on an induction-heated cracking unit in early 1950s. Microwaves or ultra-
sound in chemical reactions have been investigated for at least 30 years. Meanwhile,
some electricity-based techniques have found their paths to industrial applications.
Examples are electric-field based coalescers or electrothermic oil recovery process.
Many of those techniques, however, still wait for a convincing business case and the
most important hindering factor is the current electricity price. Conventional, steam
boiler-based heating is simply cheaper.
On the other hand numerous serious institutions, such as NREL of International
Energy Agency predict a substantial growth of the renewables-based electricity in
the coming decennia. According to NREL in 2050 about 80% of the US electricity
will come from renewables. The price of solar or wind energy will decrease by fac-
tors and this trend is visible already now.
The question therefore is whether we should intensify the research of novel chemi-
cal processes, which, instead of combusting fossil fuels and generating CO2, will be
using green electricity as primary energy source. My personal opinion is: absolutely
yes!
ExxonMobil in their latest report The Outlook for Energy: A View to 2040 wrote:
“Thomas Edison probably could not have envisioned all the ways people would use
electricity in the 21st century”. I sincerely hope that the chemical process industry
will become one of these ways.
Another, more local electrifying news of this year is that with coming of Johan
Padding with his team of postdocs and PhDs the IRS Group has regained its original
shape. Johan and his co-workers have brought with them many new projects and
new ideas that will surely enrich our research
portfolio in the coming years. Welcome on board,
guys!
Season Greetings to everyone!
Andrzej Stankiewicz
I n s i d e t h i s
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IRS News
Extension of IRS
Research
Farewell Žarko
Social Events
Student News
Van ‘t Hoff 2017
IRS Newsletter
D e c e m b e r 2 0 1 6 I s s u e 1 4
Intensified Reaction & Separation Systems
Message from the Chair: Electrifying News
IRS News in short January / April
Andrzej gives an invited lecture in the Centre for Nature-Inspired Engineering at the University
College London. Title of the lecture: “Beyond The Steam Boiler: Intensified Chemical Processing
In The Age Of Green Electricity”.
Andrzej gives a seminar at the WineSense Spring School in Valladolid, Spain. Title of the
seminar: “Global Vision In Process Intensification”.
May / June
Andrzej hosts in Delft Prof. Steven Chu (Stanford), Nobel laureate and former U.S. Secretary of
Energy. The lecture by Steven Chu can be seen at https://player.companywebcast.com/
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July / August
Andrzej receives honorary membership of the Czech Society of Chemical Engineering.
Andrzej holds a keynote lecture at 22nd International Congress of Chemical and Process
Engineering CHISA 2016 in Prague. Title of the lecture: “Green Electricity-Based Processing: the
Inevitable Future” .
September / October
Karlijn Bezemer, Mattijs Koeberg, Antoine van der Heijden, Chris van Driel, Cornelia Blaga,
Jildert Bruinsma and Arian van Asten, The potential of IRMS and GC-IRMS analysis of TATP in
forensic explosives investigations, presented at the Joint European Stable Isotopes User group
Meeting (JESIUM), Ghent University, Belgium, 4-9 September 2016.
Andrzej gives an invited lecture at the Symposium Safety in the Chemical Industry in Eindho-
ven. Title of the lecture: “Safety Concepts of Process Intensification”.
Andrzej gives an invited lecture at the SANOFI conference in Paris. Title of the lecture: “Life
Beyond The Stirred Tank? Global Vision On Process Intensification With Focus On Fine Chemi-
cal And Pharmaceutical Manufacturing”.
November / December
Andrzej gives a keynote lecture at the 8th Flow Chemistry Symposium in Delft. Title of the
lecture: “Green Electricity-Based Processing and Flow Chemistry The Inevitable Symbiosis”.
Johan Padding, invited Soft Matter seminar at University of Twente. Title of lecture: "Dances
with colloids". Enschede, 17 November 2016.
Herman gives a invited lecture at the 21st Larson Workshop of the Association for Crystalliza-
tion Technology at Priceton in the USA on November 1st.. Title: “Suppression of Secondary
Nucleation in Airlift Crystallizers: Consequences and Opportunities for Continuous Operation”.
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Honorary Membership of Czech Society of Chemical Engi-
neering for Andrzej Stankiewicz
Presented by Prof. Jir í Drahos , President of the Academy of Sci-
ences of Czech Republic during the Opening Ceremony of the
CHISA 2016 Congress in Prague, in recognition of Andrzej’s long-
time cooperation with the Czech Chemical Engineering commu-
nity as well as with the CHISA congresses.
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In September 2016 I moved with my team of 3 PhD students and 2 postdocs from Eindhoven to Delft Uni-
versity of Technology. Let me first introduce the ERC project we are working on, and then give a short
biography of each of the team members.
ERC project on gas-solid flows of non-spherical particles
In various industrial applications, solid particles are transported and processed in gas flows. To design
and optimize the processing equipment it is important to have available accurate predictive simulation
models for the flow (hydrodynamics) and heat and mass transfer processes. Unfortunately, existing sim-
ulations models have been developed for spherical particles, while particles are often non-spherical.
-spherical particles experience anisotropic drag and lift forces, and have complex direct interactions
which lead to mutually ordered configurations at higher volume fractions. An important example is the
gasification of milled biomass particles in fluidized bed reactors, where the particles are fibrous and al-
most rodlike. In our ERC Consolidator project we are developing new models for gas-solid flows with
rodlike particles at three interconnected levels (in between brackets the main PhD students or postdocs):
1. On the lowest level we apply Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS), in particular using Lattice Boltz-
mann simulations, to find correlations for the fluid-induced drag, lift and torque on collections of
rodlike particles (Sathish Sanjeevi, Ahad Zarghami).
2. On the intermediate level we develop new Discrete Particle Models (DPM), which use the correlations
from DNS to handle larger numbers of particles. These models are validated against lab-scale fluid-
ized bed setups, where we measure the hydrodynamics using Particle Image Velocimetry and Mag-
netic Particle Tracking. After validation, these models are used to find correlations for the particle-
phase stress as a function of deformation rate and mutual alignment of the particles (Vinay Mahajan,
Ivan Mema, Barry Fitzgerald).
3. On the highest level we develop new coarse-grained multi-particle collision (MPC) models, in which
the particle-particle collisions are treated implicitly through the stress correlations obtained from the
DPM simulations. The goal is to be able to model industrial scale fluidized beds containing rodlike
particles (Vikrant, Barry Fitzgerald).
As you can imagine, this work requires intense collaboration between physicists, chemical engineers and
mechanical engineers, all of which are present within the ERC team. Now each of the members will intro-
duce himself.
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RESERVE THE DATE IN YOUR AGENDA
FEBRUARY 17, 2017, 3pm
Inaugural speech Prof.dr. A.E.D.M. van der Heijden
‘Energetic materials: from discovery to design’
Extension of IRS with the team of Johan Padding by Johan Padding
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Johan Padding I received my MSc (summa cum laude) in Applied Physics from the University of
Twente in 1998, and my PhD (summa cum laude) in Chemical Physics from the
same university in 2003 on the topic of modelling the dynamics and viscoelasticity
of polymer melts. The following 3 years I was a Postdoctoral researcher at Univer-
sity of Cambridge (England) working on the dynamics and sedimentation of colloi-
dal suspensions, and visiting researcher at Schlumberger Cambridge Research (an
oilfield technology research company) working on the rheology of viscoelastic
wormlike micellar surfactants. Then I received a VENI scholarship to work 3 more years on fiber suspen-
sions at University of Twente. After another 2 year postdoc in the field of pressure-sensitive adhesives (the
glue on your Post-It!), I started as an assistant (later associate) professor in the Multiphase Reactors (SMR)
group at Eindhoven University of Technology. Here I extended my research to modelling and experiments
on fluidized beds, granular flows, spray dryers, and viscoelastic flows through porous media. I have also
guided several PPD (process & product design) students in their industrial internships related to e.g.
reactor modelling and crystallization.
In summary, my interests are quite diverse but my passion is always to understand complex flows, wheth-
er the complexity arises from the microscopic structure of the fluid (polymers, colloids and other soft mat-
ter), the confining geometry (microfluidics, porous media), or the multiphase character (liquid sprays, gas-
solid flows). I am looking forward to learning lots more by interacting with all of you within IRS and the
rest of the P&E department.
P.S. I am married and have two sons, Finn (11 years old) and Lars (7 years old). In my free time I enjoy
travelling, photography and butterflies, and combining the three.
DNS DPM MPC
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Sathish Krishnan Sanjeevi I come from Chennai, a city located in the southern part of India. I did my
Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from Amrita University, India and after
my graduation, I worked for Larsen & Toubro Power as a power-plant engi-
neer for 2 years. Later, I did my MSc in Simulation Sciences jointly
offered by RWTH Aachen University and Juelich supercomputing center in
Germany. After my Masters in 2014, I started my PhD with Johan Padding
and Hans Kuipers at TU Eindhoven, and recently moved to TU Delft with Jo-
han. In my free time, I like cooking, cycling, running and traveling .
Ahad Zarghami I completed a PhD in Fluid Mechanics at Shahrood University of Technology,
Iran. After finishing my PhD, I joined the La Sapienza University of Rome as a
researcher for one year. After that, from April 2014 to April 2016 I was a post-
doc in transport phenomena group of the department of Chemical Engineering
at TU Delft. In April 2016, I started my second post-doc career in the SMR
group at TU Eindhoven and finally from September 2016, I joined the IRS
group of the department of process and energy. My research focuses on the
application of mesoscopic numerical techniques for modeling of complex fluid
flows such as particle-based flows, multiphase and free surface flows and fluid
flow in porous media.
Vinay Mahajan I did Bachelors in Chemical Engineering (2010) from National Institute of
Technology, Rourkela, India. Later, I worked in National Chemical Laborato-
ry, Pune for two years as a researcher before moving to Netherlands for
Masters in Process Engineering (2014) at Technical University, Eindhoven.
From November 2014, I started my PhD on Johans ERC project in SMR
group, TU/e. I am still based in Eindhoven and performing experiments at
TU/e, therefore most of you haven’t seen me often yet. I come from Nagpur,
a city located in central India. I love traveling and like playing squash, table
tennis and FIFA.
A short presentation Barry Fitzgerald gave at a conference in Eindho-
ven recently can been seen at:
https://youtu.be/ajoT-BnJLvU
His interest in superheroes began much earlier. ‘I am a huge fan, always
have been. I saw my first Superman film in 1978 and once I saw that, that
was it.’
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Ivan Mema I have finished my Bachelor and Master studies in Chemical Engineering at Faculty of
Technology and Metallurgy in Belgrade, Serbia. Du ring my studies I had an intern-
ship at Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) in Capminas, Brazil, where I
worked on study of heterogeneous catalytic reactions. After my master studies I
worked for two years as process and development engineer in explosives factory
“Prva Iskra – Namenska a.d.” in Belgrade. From December 2015 I joined the SMR
group at TU/e as PhD student under Johan Padding. In September 2016 I moved to-
gether with Johan and rest of ERC team to TU Delft, IRS group of department of pro-
cess and energy. I work on the intermediate level of the ERC project, where I develop a DPM model for non-
spherical particles with a focus on bulk behavior and validation with noninvasive experimental techniques.
Barry Fitzgerald I completed by Bachelors degree in Applied Physics (1st class honours) at the Uni-
versity of Limerick (UL), Ireland and in 2010 I received a PhD in Computational
Physics from the same university. After my PhD I worked as a Scientific Projects Of-
ficer in Teaching and Learning at UL. In 2012 I moved to the Netherlands to work as
a postdoc in the group of Wim Briels (Computational Biophysics group) at the Uni-
versity of Twente. My work there was focused on the simulation of polymeric sys-
tems. In October 2014, I moved to TU Eindhoven (TU/e) to work on lattice gas mod-
els of complex fluid flows with Rutger van Santen and Johan Padding at the Institute
for Complex Molecular Systems (ICMS). In October 2015 I then started my position as a postdoc researcher
with Johan and the ERC team in the SMR group at TU/e and subsequently moved to TU Delft in September
2016 along with the ERC team. My research interests include fluidised beds, granular flows, complex fluid
flows, polymeric systems, complexity, collective motion in active systems and science education. I come
from Limerick, a city in the west of Ireland built on the river Shannon. In my spare time I run the occasional
marathon, play guitar, watch films and attend FC Twente Enschede games at de Grolsch Veste. I also write
popular science books and in 2016 I self-published two books – “Secrets of Superhero Science” and “Secret
Science of Santa Claus”.
Vikrant I received my Bachelor in Chemical Engineering and Master in Computer applications
in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India. In 2014, I
received my PhD from Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands in the
group of Prof. J.A.M Kuipers. During my PhD, I developed kinetic theory based two-
fluid model to study gas-solid fluidized beds. I performed experiments on a 3D fluid-
ized bed using ultrafast X-ray tomography, and used it for validating computational
models. After my PhD, I spent two years as a postdoc in the multiphase flow science division at National
Energy Technology Laboratory, USA. There I worked on development of open source MFiX code, that in-
cludes (1) computational modeling of complex geometries using cut-cell method, (2) development of sub-
grid gas-solid drag for vertical tubes in fluidized beds, (3) CFD-DEM, and coarse-grained DEM simulations
of particle segregation in rotating fluidized beds in vortex chambers, and (4) application of CFD-MFiX code
for carbon capture using solid sorbent in fluidized beds. From January 2017, I will be joining the IRS group
as a postdoc on coarse-grained modeling of fluidized beds with non-spherical particles.
Research
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Marloes Anne Reus was born on the 7th of September 1984 in Heiloo (the Netherlands). In 2010 she
obtained the Master of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Delft University of Technology
and stayed there to pursue her doctoral research at the IRS Group under the supervision of Joop ter
Horst and Antoine van der Heijden. The research was done in cooperation with TNO Defence, Safety
and Security, where part of the work took place.
Her PhD research focused on using crystallization and microencapsulation processes to produce mul-
ticomponent particulate products with different functionalities (improved stability, controlled release,
protection from environment, etc.). Many products from chemical industries, such as consumer prod-
ucts, pharmaceuticals, food products and fine chemicals industries constitute particulate products.
The functionality of these products depends among others on the properties of its constituents, their
interactions and their distribution in the product.
Additionally, she addressed interactions between the components in the processes. In this context, she
investigated the crystallization in multicomponent mixtures, such as co-crystallization and anti-
solvent crystallization. She employed electrospray crystallization as a technique for producing multi-
component (sub-)micron sized crystals. Additionally, wheat gluten were encapsulated in a matrix of
hydrogel by a dripping method to delay fibrilization in a novel meat analog production process and
atomic layer deposition was performed in a fluidized bed on various compounds to protect them from
moisture or reactive species in the environment. She used model compounds from various industrial
fields (e.g. food, pharmaceutical and energetic material industries) to illustrate the wide applicability
of the tested processes. On 18th of March 2016, Marloes successfully defended her PhD thesis and re-
ceived the last ever handwritten PhD diploma of TU Delft.
The thesis can be downloaded from:
http://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid%3Af4c6213c-0a18-4e7e-8a76-4f5bde31a8c7?
collection=research
PhD Defense of Marloes Reus:
Crystallization & Encapsulation in multicomponent mixtures
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George Krintiras was born in Athens, Greece on 6th September 1985. He attended secondary and higher
school at Volos, Greece. He received his Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering from
the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Denmark in 2005. For his B.Eng. thesis he worked on CFD
modelling of the aerodynamic drag on a student formula racing car.
He completed his Master of Science from Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), the Netherlands in
2011, specializing in Sustainable Energy Technology (SET). For his M.Sc. thesis he worked on CFD mod-
elling of gas diffusion limitations in fuel cell (SOFC) anodes. During his studies he founded and chaired
the student association for SET master students.
He joined Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) as Ph.D. candidate in September 2010 in the Depart-
ment of Process and Energy (P&E) under the supervision of Prof. A.I. Stankiewicz and Prof. G.D. Stefan-
idis. His Ph.D. topic dealt with the development of a scalable process for the production of fibrous meat
replacers. He introduced and developed a pilot-scale process for the production meat replacers that em-
ulate beef meat. At the same time he was exposed to advanced research tools like light microscopy, SEM,
TEM, texture analysis, encapsulation and neutron refraction (SESANS). These techniques helped him
during his scientific research and led to a publication devoted to the use and significance of these tech-
niques for a food technologist. During his Ph.D. he worked for half a year for the Vegetarian Butcher (De
Vegetarische Slager) in Utrecht, the Netherlands to further develop and promote the Couette Cell for
industrial production of meat replacers. His latest interests and research activities were focused on the
development of 3D food printers for home cooking and for industrial production. This work led to the
development of the first 3D “meat” printer for the production of vegetable-based chicken breast.
On 3rd of March 2016, George successfully defended his PhD thesis at TU Delft. Currently, he is working at FeyeCon.
The thesis can be downloaded from:
http://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid%3A03d60954-4f2a-4989-8368-c9ccaf73ca4c
PhD Defense of George Krintiras:
Intensified Protein Structuring for more sustainable foods:
Development of the up-scaled Couette Cell for the production
of meat replacers
Introduction Fatma Ibis
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On 1st of November 2016 I started as a PhD student in the Chair of Intensified Re-
action and Separation Systems, P&E Department within the Faculty 3mE.
Education and experience
I was born in 1990 in Izmir, Turkey. I graduated Bioengineering in Ege University,
during undergraduate education I got training from Department of Chemical Engi-
neering at Abo Akademi in Finland as an exchange student. After I was awarded
the M.S. degree in Department of Biomedical Technologies at I zmir Katip Çelebi
University.
Research
My research interests center around bioengineering, plasma medicine, microbiology, cell culture, bio-
material, surface modification. My bachelor’s project was the production of Lovastatin that was ob-
tained by using microorganism with solid state fermentation. My master’s projects were the biofilm
formation and eradication on endotracheal tube surface via plasma treatment to prevent and block
ventilator associated pneumonia disease, and sterilization of implant materials by using plasma to
inactivate microorganisms. In IRS group, I will investigate the suppression of kidney stone crystalliza-
tion/aggregation with designer microstructured biomaterials.
Introduction Eric Safai
I am pursuing a research internship in the Process and Energy Technology track of the
3mE Department, through which I intend to continue toward a Master’s thesis. While
interning at TU Delft, I will be developing methodologies to generate completely biocom-
patible microparticles using stop flow lithography. This concept has applications ranging
from pharmaceutical identification to high-sensitivity biomolecular assays.
I was born March 27, 1992, in Mountain View, California. After graduating high school, I
moved to Boston for university. I earned my undergraduate degree’s in Chemical-
biological Engineering and Biology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2014. While in
school, I gained various research experiences focusing on the application of hydrogel technologies, ranging
from selective encapsulation and isolation of circulating tumor cells, generation of oxygen-carrying biomi-
metic microparticles, and explorations into new techniques for rapid hydrogel synthesis of biocompatible
polymers.
After graduation, I worked at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard - also in Boston - a conglomera-
tion of labs focused on the developing vaccines and preventative medicines against HIV. Specifically, my lab
addressed acute stage infection in mucosal tissues – intestines, lungs, and female reproductive organs. I
investigated immune cell responses to acute HIV infection in the small intestines as well as implementing
high-throughput methods to identify unique antibody producing cells to combat Cholera. I also had the op-
portunity to assist in an effort to combat antibiotic resistance through the use of next generation sequenc-
ing methods.
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Introduction Rumen N. Georgiev
On 17th October I began my PhD studies in the Chair of Intensified Reaction and
Separation Systems, P&E Department within the Faculty 3mE. I am working
under dr. H. Burak Eral’s supervision and my promoter is prof. dr. Andrzej
Stankiewicz. The main focus of my research will be the investigation of hydro-
dynamic interactions between asymmetric particles in low Reynolds number
flows. These interactions can be tailored to assemble particles into larger crys-
tal-like structures, which hold promise for the fabrication of advanced materi-
als with controlled properties.
Experience and Expertise
I obtained my Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Sofia University, Bulgaria, after defending my de-
gree project entitled ‘Adsorption models for surfactants with complex head groups’ (2014). During
the project, I carried out a theoretical investigation of the parameters governing the process of surfac-
tant adsorption to the water|air interface. The main result of the work is the development of a geo-
metric model with which one of these parameter, the surfactant cross-section, can be calculated theo-
retically.
For my Master’s degree I moved to Utrecht University, the Netherlands, where I worked on the prob-
lem of genetic regulation modelling. In my Master’s thesis, ‘The Gaussian Genome’ (2016), I addressed
the problem of transcription factor binding to non-regulatory DNA, modelled as a 1D Langmuir lat-
tice. The effective energy defined in the work takes into account the statistical distribution of binding
energies the lattice exhibits and enables the direct comparison of in vivo and in vitro experiments.
I also worked as an intern at the Max-Planck-Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, Germany
(2016), where I studied the motion of a dumbbell-shaped microparticle driven by a Hele-Shaw flow
via simulations. This work serves as basis for my current appointment at TU Delft’s P&E department.
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Farewell to Žarko Olujić
At the end of 2016 the IRS Group will say the formal “farewell” to Z arko Olujic ,
our long-time colleague and one of the world’s leading experts in the field of dis-
tillation.
The academic career of Ž arko knows three distinctive phases: the first one, from
1969 to 1987, being employee of the University of Zagreb, climbing the academic
ladder from research and teaching assistant to full professor, including a two
years (1974-1976) research period as DAAD fellow at the University of Karlsruhe
in Germany, the second one, from June 1987 to the end of 2005, being employed as Associate Professor at
Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), and the third one, from 2006 to the end of 2016, a post retire-
ment period being independent scientific consultant and an external, part time Associate Professor and
member, on guest basis, of the IRS Group.
During eleven years of his postretirement period with IRS, Z arko, a Fellow of AIChE, has contributed to the
Group’s output as an author or co-author of 2 patents, 1 book, 3 chapters in an online encyclopaedia, 2
chapters in books, and 51 papers in international technical and scientific journals, as well as 27 papers in
proceedings of international conferences.
Being now at the age of 70, from January 2017 on Ž arko will con-
tinue to be academically active as a scientific consultant and
knowledge transfer specialist in separations technology field, com-
bining this in warmer months with fishing and sailing along his
homeland grounds on the eastern shores of the Adriatic sea.
That love for sailing and Z arko’s regular trips to America have been
symbolically expressed in our goodbye gift (photo). We hope that
long hours spent on constructing “Mayflower” will keep bringing
back good memories of the years spent at IRS.
Dear Old Friend, we wish you all good winds in sails for many years
to come!
Žarko in his element FRI, OSU, Stillwater, OK, USA,
March 2, 2016
Social Events
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IRS International Dinner
IRS group organised an international dinner party on March 29th. Over 28 international students and
employees from different countries, including Iran, Netherlands, Poland, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Spain,
India, China, Turkey and Vietnam participated in this event. During the dinner party, the group mem-
bers brought their self-made dishes which were all traditional and popular food in their own countries.
Students not only enjoyed the delicious foods and LIVE music, but also shared their culinary culture
with each other. Participants tasted meals from all around the world and voted for their favourite dish-
es. A variety of prizes were provided for the best of starter, main course and dessert.
Winner best dessert, by Rohit Kacker
Instructions
1. Sprinkle the gelatin over the cold water. Let stand for 5 minutes. In a saucepan, warm the cream with the sugar, salt, and vanilla over medium-high heat. Do not let it boil. Stir in the gelatin until thoroughly dissolved (it can also be skipped). Take the cream off the heat and let is stand for 5 minutes.
2. Put the sour cream in a medium bowl. Gently whisk in the warm cream a little at a time until smooth. Taste for sweetness. It may need another teaspoon of sugar. Fill the mixture in a bowl or glass full with the cream. Chill 4 to 24 hours.
3. Serve in their containers. I added an Indian sweet called Gulab jamun on the top (it is fried dough soaked with sugar syrup). One can also top it with a small piece of brownie or cake to add extra bite into the dessert.
INDIAN RECIPE - Panna_cotta
Ingredients
1 1/2 teaspoons unflavored gelatin 2 tablespoons cold water 3 cups heavy whipping cream/slagroom 1/2 cup sugar, or more to taste Pinch of salt 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1 cup sour cream/ zure cream For topping strawberries or blueberry
raspberries
CONGRATULATIONS
to Giorgos and Jenny Stefanidis with their twin girls:
Dimitra-Chryssanthi and Martha-Georgia
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IRS Day-out
IRS group organised its traditional day-out on Octo-
ber 24th. After having a short brainstorming session
to share/obtain new ideas in different research
areas: water purification, recycle of a pollutant, ni-
trogen fixation and microwave technology, we went
to De Kokkerie. There, we learned a lot about cook-
ing methods and some really delicious recipes/food
in a kind of cooking journey. All instructions were
really easy to follow. We also met the chef of the
restaurant. His passion is to teach cooking skills. He
shared his knowledge and gave us many little tips about how to make everything easier and yummy. We
learned how to make delicious foods like piccata goat cheese with olive tapenade, Greek filo pastry with
feta, red onion and olives, iberico meat slowly cooked with Spanish spicy potatoes and Tiramisu dessert. At
the end we sat around the table to enjoy the meals together. It was definitely a very good experience to
have food, that we ourselves made, at De Kokkerie.
FIRST CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: WWW.AMPERE2017.NL
Leslie van Leeuwen will join the spinning marathon (3 hours) for ‘Sporten voor Sophia’.
Our goal is: more air for children with disorders of the upper respiratory airways.
The Erasmus MC – Sophie Children’s Hospital takes care of chil-
dren with upper respiratory airway disorders for which they
need to be operated, so that they can breathe independently once
again. Sadly, the upper airway often remains too narrow or weak
for many of these children. This often severely inhibits their functioning in daily life.. Each breath re-
quires effort; day after day, year after year. A consequence is that they often cannot join their peers in
fun and games without becoming short of breath, and that they are often ill. This has to improve!
With research, the treatment will be improved, thereby avoiding lifelong breathlessness. If you want
to give a donation please click on the link below and choose for ‘Doneer nu’: https://
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K.A. Buist, L.J.H. Seelen, N.G. Deen, J.T. Padding, J.A.M. Kuipers, On an efficient hybrid soft and hard sphere collision integration scheme for DEM, Chem. Eng. Sci. 153 (2016), 363-373, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ces.2016.07.030
Sandip K. Pawar, Filip Henrikson, Giulia Finotello, Johan T. Padding, Niels G. Deen, Alfred Jongsma, Fred-rik Innings, J.A.M. Hans Kuipers, An experimental study of droplet-particle collisions, Powder Technology 300 (2016), 157-163, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.powtec.2016.06.005
L.J.H. Seelen, J.T. Padding, J.A.M. Kuipers, Improved quaternion-based integration scheme for rigid body motion, To appear in Acta Mechanica (2016), http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00707-016-1670-x
L. Yang, J.T. Padding, J.A.M. Kuipers, Modification of kinetic theory of granular flow for frictional spheres, Part I: Two-fluid model derivation and numerical implementation, Chem. Eng. Sci. 152 (2016), 767-782, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ces.2016.05.031
L.Yang, J.T. Padding, J.A.M. Kuipers, Modification of kinetic theory of granular flow for frictional spheres, part II: Model validation, Chem. Eng. Sci. 152 (2016), 783-794, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ces.2016.06.015
Huseyin Burak Eral, Eric R Safai, Bavand Keshavarz, Jae Jung Kim, Jisoek Lee, Patrick S Doyle, Governing Principles of Alginate Microparticle Synthesis with Centrifugal Forces, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b00806
Olena Kudina, Burak Eral, Frieder Mugele, e-MALDI: An Electrowetting-Enhanced Drop Drying Method for MALDI Mass Spectrometry, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.5b04283
Ankur Gupta, H. Burak Eral , T. Alan Hatton and Patrick S. Doyle, Nanoemulsions: formation, properties and applications, thttp://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C5SM02958A
Ankur Gupta H. Burak Eral, T. Alan Hatton and Patrick S. Doyle, Controlling and predicting droplet size of nanoemulsions: scaling relations with experimental validation, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C5SM02051D
A.E.D.M. van der Heijden and R.H.B. Bouma, Characterization of granular and polymer-embedded RDX grades: Floret tests, Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics 41 (2016) 360-366, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/prep.201500275
R.H.B. Bouma and A.E.D.M. van der Heijden, The effect of RDX crystal defect structure on mechanical re-sponse of polymer bonded explosive, Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics 41 (2016) 484-493, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/prep.201500222
M.C.J. van Ramshorst, G.L. Di Benedetto, W. Duvalois, P.A. Hooijmeijer and A.E.D.M. van der Heijden, Investigation of the failure mechanism of HTPB/AP/Al propellant by in-situ uniaxial tensile experimentation in SEM, Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics 41 (2016) 700-708, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/prep.201500264
K.D.B. Bezemer, M. Koeberg, A.E.D.M. van der Heijden, C.A. van Driel, C. Blaga, J. Bruinsma and A.C. van Asten, The potential of isotope ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS) and gas chromatography-IRMS analysis of triacetone triperoxide in forensic explosives investigations, Journal of Forensic Sciences 61 (2016) 1198-1207, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.13135
A.E.D.M. van der Heijden and R.H.B. Bouma, Confocal scanning laser microscopic study of the RDX defect structure in deformed polymer bonded explosives, Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics 41 (2016) 875-882, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/prep.201500267
J. F. de la Fuente, S. H. Moreno, A. I. Stankiewicz and G. D. Stefanidis, Reduction of CO2 with hydrogen in a non-equilibrium microwave plasma reactor, Hydrogen Energy, in press, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2016.08.032
J. F. de la Fuente, S. H. Moreno, A. I. Stankiewicz and G. D. Stefanidis, A new methodology for the reduc-tion of vibrational kinetics in non-equilibrium microwave plasma: application to CO2 dissociation, React. Chem. Eng., 1, 540-554 (2016)
F. Khodadadian, A. Poursaeidesfahani, Z. Li, J. R. van Ommen, A. I. Stankiewicz, R. Lakerveld, Model-Based Optimization of a Photocatalytic Reactor with Light-Emitting Diodes, Chem. Eng. Technol., 39, 1946–1954 (2016)
Publications by IRS staff in 2016
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F. Khodadadian, M. Nasalevich, F. Kapteijn, A. I. Stankiewicz, R. Lakerveld, J. Gascon, Photocatalsis: Past Achievements and Future Trends, in: “Alternative Energy Sources for Green Chemistry” (G. Stefanidis and A. Stankiewicz, Eds.), RSC, Cambridge, 2016, pp. 227-269
G. S. J. Sturm, A. I. Stankiewicz, G. D. Stefanidis, Microwave Reactor Concepts: From Resonant Cavities to Traveling Fields, in: “Alternative Energy Sources for Green Chemistry” (G. Stefanidis and A. I. Stankiewicz, Eds.), RSC, Cambridge, 2016, pp. 93-125
F Anisi, KM Thomas, HJM Kramer, Membrane-assisted crystallization: 2017, Membrane characterization, modelling and experiments, Chemical Engineering Science 158, 277-286
Wei W Li, Laura Spix, Saskia CA De Reus, Hugo Meekes, Herman JM Kramer, Elias Vlieg, Joop H ter Horst, 2016, eracemization of a racemic compound via its conglomerate-forming salt using temperature cycling, Crystal Growth & Design, 16-9, pp 5563-5570
Perez Calvo, J-F., S.S. Kadam and H.J.M. kramer, 2016, Determination of Kinetics in Batch Cooling Crystalli-zation Processes—A Sequential Parameter Estimation Approach, AIChE J. 2016, Vol. 62, No. 11. Pp 3992 - 4012, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aic.15295
Wei W. Li, Norbert Radacsi, Herman J. M. Kramer, Antoine E. D. M. van der Heijden, and Joop H. ter Horst, Solid Separation from a Mixed Suspension through Electric-Field-Enhanced Crystallization, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 1-5
H. Jansen, I. Dejanovic , T. Rietfort, Ž. Olujić, Dividing wall column as energy saving retrofit technology, Chem. Ing. Tech. 88 (2016) 200-207
I.J. Halvorsen, I. Dejanovic , K. A. Marak, Ž. Olujić, S. Skogestad, Dividing wall column for fractionation of natural gas liquids in floating liquefied natural gas plants, Chem. Eng. Techn. 39 (2016), No. 12, 2348-2354
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Student news
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IRS congratulates the PhD student and the MSc students who graduated in 2016, wishing them lots of
success in their professional careers.
PhD Degree
PhD for George Krintiras (03-03-2016):
Intensified Protein Structuring for more sustainable foods:
Development of the up-scaled Couette Cell for the production of meat replacers
PhD for Marloes Reus (18-03-2016):
Crystallization & Encapsulation in multicomponent mixtures
MSc students graduated
Jeroen Muller:
A feasibility study in anti-solvent crystallization of white sugar (04-02-2016)
Supervisor: Herman Kramer
Zonghan Li:
LED-Based Photocatalytic Reactor Design (15-03-2016)
Supervisor: Herman Kramer
Vaishnavi Jayaraman Rajkumar:
Continuous crystallization in a tubular oscillatory flow reactor (25-04-2016)
Supervisor: Herman Kramer
Debby den Besten:
Developing a set-up for a microwave-assisted continuous deracemization process
(19-05-2016)
Supervisor: Herman Kramer
Moj Hassan:
The Phase Diagram Method, a potential method for chiral co-crystal screening
(09-06-2016)
Supervisor: Herman Kramer
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Olav Altenburg:
A microfluidic device for nucleation induction time measurements (07-07-2016)
Supervisor: Burak Eral
Joost Nijskens:
Dissolution of fenofibrate nanocrystals confined in alginate hydrogels (12-07-2016)
Supervisor: Burak Eral
Daan Geerdink:
Influence of Discretization Methods on Solving Population Balance Based Dissolution
(18-08-2016)
Supervisor: Herman Kramer
Oscar Villamil Ramirez:
Investigation of miniature scale plasma gasification: Experimental heat balance and
parametric study (24-08-2016)
Supervisor: Herman Kramer
Javier Leyva Rico:
Investigation of miniature scale plasma gasification (24-08-2016)
Supervisor: Andrzej Stankiewicz
Berend Nootenboom:
Process water treatment using eutectic freeze crystallization for the HyVent Metal
Recovery Process from spent hydrotreating catalysts (30-11-2016)
Supervisor: Herman Kramer
Tushar Devadiga:
Dry Reforming of methane by application of microwave energy (14-12-2016)
Supervisor: Andrzej Stankiewicz
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Research partners
IRS appreciates the continuous support and collaboration of the following industrial and
academic partners
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Multidisciplinary research to generate fundamentally
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Process Intensification
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Alternative Energy
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Process Intensification
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