ISKRA is an international school aimed at training PhD students in Chemical Sciences and Chemical Engineering on modern topics of chemical kinetics and design of chemical reactors.
The student will be accompanied in a guided and interactive path aimed at process development starting from the most modern techniques of synthesis and characterization of heterogeneous catalysts. Multiphase reactors will be discussed, with a view to process intensification, i.e., the development of chemical reactors optimized in terms of yield and energy use. Attention will be paid to the description of the most advanced chemical reactors (e.g., chromatographic reactors, reactive distillation, dynamic systems) contemplating the use of alternative energy sources (e.g., microwaves, ultrasounds, radio frequencies).
The school will be held in Naples, at the conference center of the Department of Chemical Sciences of the University of Naples Federico II, from the 4th to the 9th of September 2023.
All the material of the school will be available on MS Teams platform (link).
Important dates
- Registration: 30/07/2023 deadline
- School: 4-9/09/2023
Benefits of the school
- No subscription fee*
- Blended teaching modality
What will you learn
- the newest experimental and theoretical concepts of chemical kinetics, particularly the application of it in real production conditions
- the newest concepts of structured catalysts and reactors in order to make processes more effective (higher production and energy savings)
- the implementation of unconventional energy forms in chemical processes and combining reaction and separation
What will you develop
- advanced modeling, simulation and optimization of chemical transformations
- creative thinking in process innovation, contributing to the great shift to the use of renewable resources (raw materials and energy sources) in sustainable chemical and process industry
- multinational and multidisciplinary interaction skills and networking
ISKRA Programme
| Date | Session title | Activity | Time | Lesson | Docent |
| 04/09 | ISKRA Overture | Info | 09:00 – 09:30 | Welcome, institutional greetings, ISKRA overture | Vincenzo Russo, Tapio Salmi, Stefan Haase |
| 04/09 | New trends in kinetics and process development | Lecture | 09:30 – 11:00 | New trends in chemical kinetics | Martino Di Serio (UniNa) |
| Lecture | 11:00 – 12:30 | Principles of mass and energy transfer | Vincenzo Russo (UniNa) | ||
| Lunch | 12:30 – 13:30 | ||||
| Lecture | 13:30 – 15:00 | Development of heterogeneous catalysts | Tapio Salmi (ÅA) | ||
| Activity | 18:00 | Walking in Napoli Downtown and Social Dinner: meeting point Piazza Bovio | |||
| 05/09 | Intensification of chemical processes | Lecture | 09:00 – 10:30 | Catalysts and structured reactors | Tapio Salmi (ÅA) |
| Lecture | 10:30 – 12:00 | Milli and micro-reactors | Stefan Haase (TUD) | ||
| Workshop | 12:00 – 13:00 | Process Intensification. How to choose the right device | Henrik Grenman (ÅA) | ||
| Lunch | 13:00 – 14:00 | ||||
| Lecture | 14:00 – 15:30 | Unconventional forms of energy: ultrasound, microwave, plasma | Tapio Salmi (ÅA) | ||
| Workshop | 15:30 – 16:30 | Case studies for the evaluation of the most correct form of unconventional energy | Matias Alvear (ÅA) | ||
| Lecture | 16:30 – 18:00 | Process dynamics and process reliability | Stefan Haase (TUD) | ||
| 06/09 | Multiphase chemical reactors and reactive separation units | Lecture | 09:00 – 10:30 | Multiphase reactors | Stefan Haase (TUD) |
| Lecture | 10:30 – 12:00 | Advanced methods in characterization of multiphase reactors | Stefan Haase (TUD) | ||
| Lunch | 12:00 – 13:00 | ||||
| Lecture | 13:00 – 14:30 | Fluid-fluid and fluid-solid reactions | Henrik Grenman (ÅA) | ||
| Workshop | 14:30 – 17:00 | Laboratory of Industrial Catalysis | Rosa Turco (UniNa) | ||
| 07/09 | Mathematical modeling of chemical reactors | Lecture | 09:00 – 10:30 | Numerical methods | Riccardo Tesser (UniNa) |
| Lecture | 10:30 – 11:50 | Reactor Modeling Software | Riccardo Tesser (UniNa) | ||
| Info | 11:50 – 12:00 | Assigning tasks for Saturday | Vincenzo Russo (UniNa) | ||
| Lunch | 12:00 – 13:00 | ||||
| Workshop | 13:00 – 14:30 | Using MATLAB “hands on” | Tommaso Cogliano (ÅA) | ||
| Activity | 15:30 | Napoli Sotterranea: meeting point Piazza del Gesù Nuovo | |||
| 08/09 | Reactive separation and reactor optimization | Lecture | 09:00 – 10:00 | Optimization of chemical reactors | Tapio Salmi (ÅA) |
| Lecture | 10:00 – 11:00 | Reactive absorption/extraction/distillation | Vincenzo Russo (UniNa) | ||
| Lecture | 11:00 – 12:30 | Reactive chromatography | Vincenzo Russo (UniNa) | ||
| Lunch | 12:30 – 13:30 | ||||
| Lecture | 13:30 – 14:30 | Design of experiments | Francesco Taddeo (UniNa) | ||
| Workshop | 14:30 – 15:30 | From simulation to design | Rosa Vitiello (UniNa) | ||
| Lecture | 15:30 – 16:30 | Regression analysis | Riccardo Tesser (UniNa) | ||
| Workshop | 16:30 – 17:30 | At the pursuit of kinetic constants | Riccardo Tesser (UniNa) | ||
| 09/09 | Student Session | Activity | 09:00 – 11:30 | Flash presentations of real research | |
| Lecture | 11:30 – 12:30 | How to write a scientific article | Vincenzo Russo (UniNa) | ||
| Lunch | 12:30 – 13:30 | ||||
| Activity | 13:30 – 15:30 | Journal Club: become the reviewer of a famous author | |||
| Info | 15:30 – 16:00 | Conclusions and Take Home messages | Vincenzo Russo, Tapio Salmi, Stefan Haase |
Download the programme here.
Organizing institutions
University of Naples Federico II (Prof. Vincenzo Russo)
Åbo Akademi (Prof. Tapio Salmi)
TU-Dresden (Prof. Stefan Haase)
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ISKRA was organized in the frame of Erasmus+ KA131 Blended Intensive Programme.
* Erasmus+ covers the expenses of the students/docents belonging to the consortium UniNa/AA/TUD