Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry
Eindhoven University of Technology
P.O. Box 513
5600 MB  EINDHOVEN
The Netherlands

Office: HeW 1.35
Telephone: +31 (0) 40 247 3088
Email: j.c.schouten@remove-this.tue.nl

Biography
Jaap Schouten is full professor in Chemical Reactor Engineering in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) since 1998. He is head of the laboratory of Chemical Reactor Engineering. He received his Ph.D. (cum laude) in 1988 from the Delft University of Technology. In 1988 he joined the Detergents Group, section Washing Processes and Machines, at the Unilever Research Laboratory in Vlaardingen. He worked at the Delft University of Technology in the Department of Chemical Process Technology from 1990 to 1998, since 1994 as associate professor.
From 2001 to 2005 Jaap Schouten was member of the Board and Vice-Dean of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry at TU/e. In November 2008 he was again appointed Board member and Vice-Dean. From 2004 to 2008 he was Secretary of the Working Party on Chemical Reaction Engineering of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE); in 2009 he became the Working Party's chairman. He is member of the Scientific Committees of the International Symposia on Chemical Reaction Engineering (ISCRE) and Microreaction Technology (IMRET), and of the European Process Intensification Conference (EPIC). He is Chair of ISCRE-22 that will be organized in Maastricht in 2012.
Since 2001 Jaap Schouten is member of the Hoogewerff Foundation for Process Technology in the Netherlands (Stichting Hoogewerff-Fonds), since 2006 acting as Chairman. In 2006 he was granted the prestigious "Simon Stevin Meester" award by the Dutch Technology Foundation (STW). Also in 2006 he obtained a prestigious TOP grant from the Division of Chemical Sciences (CW) of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). In the same year he received the Chemistry Innovation KTN Award for Innovation in Applied Catalysis and Colloid Science from the British Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE). In 2007 he was appointed Member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences (Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen). In the same year he became member of the Board of the NWO Division of Chemical Sciences. In 2008 he was awarded the prestigious Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC).

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Research
The group of Jaap Schouten aims to perform high-quality scientific and technological research in the chemical reactor engineering sciences with specific emphasis on the design, development and operation of microfluidic processing systems, microstructured reactors, and structured multiphase reactors. The group's research focusses on understanding and controlling the interaction of physical transport phenomena, catalytic activity, and reaction and separation processes for a wide range of applications and processes.

Selected publications

• E.V. Rebrov, S.A. Duinkerke, M.H.J.M. de Croon, J.C. Schouten, Optimization of heat transfer characteristics, flow distribution, and reaction processing for a microstructured reactor / heat-exchanger for optimal performance in platinum catalyzed ammonia oxidation, Chem. Eng. J. 93 (3) 201-216 (2003).
• E.R. Delsman, M.H.J.M. de Croon, A. Pierik, G.J. Kramer, P.D. Cobden, C. Hofmann, V. Cominos, J.C. Schouten, Design and operation of a preferential oxidation microdevice for a portable fuel processor, Chem. Eng. Sci. 59 (22-23) 4795-4802 (2004).
• V.P. Chilekar, C. Singh, J. van der Schaaf, B.F.M. Kuster, J.C. Schouten, A gas hold-up model for slurry bubble columns, AIChE J. 53 (7) 1687-1702 (2007).
• M.J.M. Mies, E.V. Rebrov, L. Deutz, C.R. Kleijn, M.H.J.M. de Croon, J.C. Schouten, Experimental validation of the performance of a microreactor for the high-throughput screening of catalytic coatings, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 46 3922-3931 (2007).
• C.P. Stemmet, M. Meeuwse, J. van der Schaaf, B.F.M. Kuster, J.C. Schouten, Gas-liquid mass transfer and axial dispersion in solid foam packings, Chem. Eng. Sci. 62 (18-20) 5444-5450 (2007).
• M.J.F. Warnier, E.V. Rebrov, M.H.J.M. de Croon, V. Hessel, J.C. Schouten, Gas hold-up and liquid film thickness in Taylor flow in rectangular micro channels, Chem. Eng. J. 135(1) S153-S158 (2008).
• P.W.A.M. Wenmakers, J. van der Schaaf, B.F.M. Kuster, J.C. Schouten, Hairy foam, carbon nanofibers grown on solid foam; a fully accessible, high surface area, graphitic catalyst support, J. Mater. Chem. 18 2426-2436 (2008).
• E.V. Rebrov, A. Berenguer-Murcia, H.E. Skelton, B.F.G. Johnson, A.E.H. Wheatley, J.C. Schouten, Capillary microreactors wall-coated with mesoporous titania thin film catalyst supports, Lab Chip 9 503-506 (2009).