News and publications

Presentations

ALD/ALE 2024, 4.-7.8.2024, Helsinki, Finland.
Diffusion–reaction modeling for atomic layer deposition on spheres: comparison with experimental data;
Niko Heikkinen, Jihong Yim, Jänis Järvilehto, Saeed Saedy, P. Brüner, T. Grehl, Eero Haimi, Jorge Velasco, Christine Gonsalves, J. Ruud van Ommen, Juha Lehtonen, Riikka L. Puurunen
Oral presentation

Nordic Symposium on Catalysis, 3.-6.6.2024, Stavanger, Norway.
From industrial CO₂ emissions to steam cracker feeds;
Eveliina Mäkelä, Niko Heikkinen, Matti Reinikainen, Juha Lehtonen.
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (Poster)

18^th ICC – International Congress on Catalysis, Lyon, France.
Fischer-Tropsch synthesis for C2-C4 olefin production over promoted iron catalysts with different preparation techniques;
Ida Uotila, Niko Heikkinen, Matti Reinikainen
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (Poster)

Chemicals and materials from Finnish biogenic CO₂ emissions
– BioCCU & ForestCUMP joint seminar on March 2024
Presentations available

EuropaCat 2023, 15th European Congress on Catalysis, 27 August – 1 September, 2023 Prague, Czech Republic
Additively manufactured reactor development for exothermic synthesis;
Heikkinen, Niko; Frilund, Christian; Virkki, Niko Virkki; Simell, Pekka; Reinikainen, Matti; Pasanen, Antti;
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (poster)

20th International Conference on Carbon Dioxide Utilization – ICCDU 23, 25-29 June 2023

Enhanced CO₂ Capture using Soda Solution;
Narayanasamy, Mohankumar; Melin, Kristian, LUT University (Oral)
Feasibility of Green Liquor Based CO₂ Capture in Pulp and Paper Industry;
Melin, Kristian; Narayanasamy, Mohankumar; Mero, Mario, LUT University (Oral)

EuroCVD / Baltic ALD 2023 Conference, 29 May – 2 June 2023, Leuven, Belgium
Diffusion-reaction model for conformality evolution in ALD on spherical porous catalyst particles;
Heikkinen, Niko^a; Lehtonen, Juha^a; Yim, Jihong^b; Puurunen, Riikka^b
^a VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
^b Department of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, Aalto University, Finland

Master’s Theses

Mario Mero (2023), Feasibility of CO₂ capture in forest industries (LUTPub)

Markus Luukkonen (2023), Process modelling for the separation of light gaseous hydrocarbons produced by iron-catalysed Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (Aalto)

Oona Tuomisto (2023), Transportation of CCU-compounds (LUT)

Publications

Production of C2-C4 Olefins with Fischer-Tropsch-Synthesis: The Effect of Cu Promoter Loading on an Fe-Cu-K/SiO2 Catalyst. ChemCatChem, 2024, doi.org/10.1002/cctc.202400560
Niko Heikkinen^a, Dorela Dhamo^b, Ida Uotila^a, Matti Reinikainen^a and Roland Dittmeyer^b
^a VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, P.O. Box 1000, FIN-02044 VTT, Espoo, Finland
^b Institute for Micro Process Engineering (IMVT), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Herrmann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany

An atomic layer deposition diffusion–reaction model for porous media with different particle geometries;
Niko Heikkinen ^a, Juha Lehtonen ^a, Riikka L. Puurunen ^b
^a VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, P.O. Box 1000, FIN-02044 VTT, Espoo, Finland
^b Department of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, Aalto University School of Chemical Engineering, Kemistintie 1, Espoo, Finland