Process Chemistry Center

Åbo Akademi University

Director: Professor Mikko Hupa
tel. +358 2 215 4454
fax +358 2 215 4692 / +358 2 215 4780
mikko.hupa(at)abo.fi

The Process Chemistry Group consists of four research teams at the Faculty of Chemical Engineering at Åbo Akademi University. The Process Chemistry Group is based in the Faculty's two buildings (Gadolinia and Axelia), but it also has operations in the Turku Technology Centre (DataCity).

The leaders of the research teams are:
Pulp and Paper Chemistry (Academy Professor Bjarne Holmbom)
Process Analytical Chemistry (Professor Ari Ivaska)
Kinetics and Catalysis (Professor Tapio Salmi)
Combustion and Materials Chemistry
(Professor Mikko Hupa)

In addition to the four professors in charge of these teams, the Group has 25 senior researchers involved in projects that cover a wide range of process chemistry related topics, but still sharing the same general approach. All work is concerned with detailed physico-chemical processes in complex environments of industrial interest, aiming to find novel solutions to industrial processes and products. The Group calls this approach in which the focus is on reaching a detailed understanding of process chemistry mechanisms, Molecular Process Technology.
Molecular Process Technology implies:
- Identification and modelling of elementary reactions and interactions in complex heterogeneous industrial processes
- Exploring chemical phenomena and mechanisms in industrial processes, at the molecular level
- Developing advanced process models based on a detailed and sound physico-chemical understanding of the process elements
- Designing relevant molecular structures for industrial products
- Identification and characterisation of environmentally significant components in discharge streams from industrial processes

In addition to professors and senior researchers the Group has 37 post-graduate researchers.

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