REATC Lab · FTMD ITB
Reaction Engineering and Applied Thermochemical Conversion Laboratory
The Reaction Engineering and Applied Thermochemical Conversion Laboratory (REATC Lab) is a research group in the Faculty of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Institut Teknologi Bandung, led by Dr. Ilman Nuran Zaini within the Thermal Science and Engineering Research Group. The lab studies thermochemical routes that turn biomass and waste into clean fuels, hydrogen and valuable materials. Current work covers biomass gasification, pyrolysis and biochar, electrified reactors and tar reforming, hydrogen production, sustainable aviation fuel and Power-to-Liquid pathways, and biomass co-firing with carbon capture for decarbonizing power and industry.
The work combines laboratory experiments with process modelling, CFD and techno-economic and life-cycle assessment, each used to check the other.
Undergraduate, master's and doctoral students can join the lab. How to apply.
Research
All research
Biomass and waste gasification
Fluidized-bed gasification experiments and CPFD/CFD simulation: syngas quality, tar, staged oxygen, co-gasification with biochar, integration with industrial processes.
Hydrogen production and electrified reactors
Joule-heated reactors, electrified tar reforming, methane pyrolysis to turquoise hydrogen and solid carbon, bio-oil reforming over biochar catalysts.
Sustainable aviation fuel and Power-to-Liquid
Fischer–Tropsch SAF routes from gasification and electrolysis hydrogen: process simulation, techno-economics and life-cycle assessment.
Co-firing and carbon capture in power plants
CFD of biomass co-firing in pulverized-coal boilers, syngas–natural gas co-firing, retrofitting carbon capture and gasification into existing coal plants.
Pyrolysis and biochar
Pyrolysis of biomass and waste; biochar as catalyst, carbon material and battery-anode precursor; carbon nanotubes from plastic waste.
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- 32
- Countries
- 12
- Coauthored papers
- 15
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China
- China Agricultural University
- Harbin Institute of Technology
- Van Krevelen diagrams based on machine learning visualize feedstock-product relationships in thermal conversion processes (2023)
- Distributed electrified heating for efficient hydrogen production (2024)
- Enhancing carbon nanotubes production from pyrolysis–catalysis of plastic waste through monolithic heating (2026)
- Hunan Institute of Technology
- Institute of Chemical Industry of Forest Products
- Van Krevelen diagrams based on machine learning visualize feedstock-product relationships in thermal conversion processes (2023)
- Distributed electrified heating for efficient hydrogen production (2024)
- Carbon-negative valorization of biomass waste into affordable green hydrogen and battery anodes (2024)
- A novel three-stage ex-situ catalytic pyrolysis process for improved bio-oil yield and quality from lignocellulosic biomass (2024)
- Institute of Process Engineering
- Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs
- Nanjing Forestry University
- Van Krevelen diagrams based on machine learning visualize feedstock-product relationships in thermal conversion processes (2023)
- Distributed electrified heating for efficient hydrogen production (2024)
- Carbon-negative valorization of biomass waste into affordable green hydrogen and battery anodes (2024)
- A novel three-stage ex-situ catalytic pyrolysis process for improved bio-oil yield and quality from lignocellulosic biomass (2024)
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Zhengzhou University
Czechia
France
Malaysia
Poland
Saudi Arabia
- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
- Prospective environmental and economic assessment of green steel production in the Middle East (2025)
- A review on interactions and reactor implications during pyrolysis of biomass- and plastic-based waste (2026)
- Valorization of Cyanidioschyzon merolae via mixed air/steam/CO₂ gasification: Syngas evolution and tar molecular insights (2025)
- Sustainability of e-hydrogen carriers production: Techno-economic and life cycle perspectives in Saudi Arabia (2026)
- Cost of sustainable ammonia production from renewable e-hydrogen: comparing different gas separation methods and reactor configurations (2026)
Singapore
- Agency for Science, Technology and Research
- National University of Singapore
- Van Krevelen diagrams based on machine learning visualize feedstock-product relationships in thermal conversion processes (2023)
- Enhancing carbon nanotubes production from pyrolysis–catalysis of plastic waste through monolithic heating (2026)
- A novel three-stage ex-situ catalytic pyrolysis process for improved bio-oil yield and quality from lignocellulosic biomass (2024)
Spain
Sweden
- Chalmers University of Technology
- Kanthal (Sweden)
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology
- Towards fossil-free steel: Life cycle assessment of biosyngas-based direct reduced iron (DRI) production process (2023)
- Decarbonising the iron and steel industries: Production of carbon-negative direct reduced iron by using biosyngas (2023)
- Van Krevelen diagrams based on machine learning visualize feedstock-product relationships in thermal conversion processes (2023)
- Distributed electrified heating for efficient hydrogen production (2024)
- Carbon-negative valorization of biomass waste into affordable green hydrogen and battery anodes (2024)
- Enhancing carbon nanotubes production from pyrolysis–catalysis of plastic waste through monolithic heating (2026)
- Advanced application of a geometry-enhanced 3D-printed catalytic reformer for syngas production (2023)
- A novel three-stage ex-situ catalytic pyrolysis process for improved bio-oil yield and quality from lignocellulosic biomass (2024)
- A pilot-scale test of plasma torch application for decarbonising the steel reheating furnaces (2023)
- Electrified catalytic steam reforming for renewable syngas production: Experimental demonstration, process development and techno-economic analysis (2025)
- Outokumpu (Sweden)
- RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
- ScanArc Plasma Technologies (Sweden)
- Uppsala University
- Wallenberg Wood Science Center
Thailand
United Kingdom
United States
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