Technical University Berlin
Institute of Chemical Engineering
Straße des 17. Juni 135
10623 Berlin

Prof. Dr. Karl Heinz Reichert
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Prof. Dr. Reinhard Schomäcker
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• Gas phase polymerisation with heterogeneous catalysis: Kinetic studies on single catalyst particles by using the method of microgavimetry and video-microscopy as well as thermometry; mathematical modelling of the catalytic polymerization process (kinetics, mass and heat transfer, molecular weight distribution) by using different mathematical methods
• Enzyme catalysis in reverse micelles: reduction of ketones to optically active alkohols; development of enzyme membranes and a membrane reactor
• Preparation of Noble Metal Catalysts: precipitation reaction in microemulsions; catalyst characterisation by test reactions

• magnetic suspension microbalance
• laboratory reactor for gas phase polymerization
• reaction-calorimeter
• video microscopy
• BET
• catalytic test reactors

• polymerization, gas phase
• Ziegler
• kinetics
• mass and heat transport
• mathematical modelling
• video microscopy
• microgravimetry
• reaction calorimetry
• enzyme catalysis
• microemulsions
• nanoparticles
• noble metal catalysts