Johan Padding appointed full professor of complex fluid processing

News - 06 November 2018 - Webredactie 3ME

Professor Johan Padding was appointed full professor of complex fluid processing at the Department of Processing & Energy starting 23 October 2018. Johan Padding’s research deals with the complex interaction between transport processes and the transformation of gases and liquids in industrial production processes. Padding’s focus is on understanding and predicting the behaviour of multiphase and complex fluid flows on the mesoscale (0.1 μm – mm). According to Padding, most process limitations occur on this scale because a ‘conflict’ arises between transport mechanisms (flow, diffusion, migration and mixing) and transformations (reactions, aggregation and phase change). This is a problem when converting biomass into biofuel, for example, and with the electrocatalytic conversion of CO2. In addition to being full professor, Johan Padding also plays an active part in the TU Delft Process Technology Institute (DPTI) and the TU Delft consortium e-Refinery, which focuses on the sustainable production of chemicals and fuels.

Johan Padding
‘TU Delft is already playing a key role in the development of innovative industrial process technologies at the micro and macro scales. My research brings together the micro and macro scales. I want to set up two lines of research that focus on scaling up facilities for electrochemical conversion and for processing biomass. If we can more accurately predict the competition between transport processes and transformations in these systems, then we will have taken another step towards making the chemical and energy industry more sustainable.’

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