The newly launched SLUGGER project will explore one of the industry’s most persistent modelling challenges: how to predict the behaviour of a supported olefin polymerisation catalyst in a gas-phase reactor, based on performance in slurry-phase conditions.
Part of DPI’s Enabling Tools & Technologies programme, SLUGGER combines industrially relevant experimentation with mechanistic modelling to build a protocol for reliable data extrapolation between reactor types. The aim? A better understanding of why kinetics and product properties often diverge, and how to account for it during catalyst development and scale-up.
Welcoming Ifrah Sheikh to the DPI community
We’re pleased to welcome Ifrah Sheikh. As a PhD student at CP2M, Ifrah will investigate the key parameters that influence catalyst behaviour in both slurry and gas-phase environments. She will work closely with academic and industrial partners to generate insights that support more predictable process design.
We look forward to following her research journey in the years ahead.
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