Anaproc is a one-man's company offering expertise on various fields related with reactor and reaction engineering (Anaproc: analysis of processes)

This includes:

• Reaction kinetics: suitable reaction schemes, the rate expressions and the overall models. 
  
• Select the test reactor for carrying out the required experiments and the most suitable conditions for the tests. 
  
• Perform literature studies on reaction kinetics and thermodynamics. 
  
• Perform reactor modelling for assessing transport limitations. 
  
• Estimate the required parameters in rate expressions or any other kind of expressions from experimental data. 
  
• Perform (additional) kinetic experiments with help from the Catalysis Engineering laboratory at TU Delft (Prof. Freek Kapteijn). This laboratory has a wide experience with both gas-solid and gas-liquid-solid systems. 
  
• Give advice for investigations related with catalysis, kinetics or other chemical engineering subjects that are already running in the company’s laboratories. 
  
• Act as an interface between your company and software developers, laboratory equipment suppliers and academics. 
  
• Perform work on any other subjects related with chemical engineering and catalysis. 
  

The company started in January 2003 and is run by Rob Berger.




Short curriculum vitae Rob Berger

• Education
  Chemical Technology, Twente University (Enschede, The Netherlands) (1981 - 1987) (Master's direction : Process technology, group prof. Wim van Swaaij).
  
  
• Current position
  Running Anaproc.
  
  
• Previous position (Research fellow/post-doc, 1998 - 2002)
  Delft University of Technology, ChemE (TNW), Section Catalysis Engineering (group prof. Freek Kapteijn and prof. em. Jacob Moulijn).
  Work content : Work for Eurokin: various activities with the general aim to improve the quality and efficiency of research on reaction kinetics in the industry; the development of a 'kinetics toolkit'. This work is fully supported by 11 large European companies: Albemarle, Aramco, BP, DSM, Eni, Evonik Industries, IFPEN, Johnson-Matthey, Lhoist, Linde, and Shell; more info can be found on the Eurokin website http://www.eurokin.org
  
  
• First post-doc position (Research fellow/post-doc, 1993 - 1998)
  Eindhoven University of Technology, Faculty of Chemical Technology, Group Reactor Technology (group prof. Guy Marin).
  Work content : The research concerned the catalytic partial oxidation of methane to synthesis gas. The emphasis was on the determination of the kinetics of catalytic and homogeneous gas-phase reactions, the modelling and the design of appropriate reactors on industrial scale. I worked as project leader, designed experimental set-ups, supervised Ph.D. and Masters' students and cooperated with other universities, research institutes and companies in the framework of European Commission projects.      Publications
  
  
• Ph.D. (1987 - 1992)
  Twente University, Faculty of Chemical Technology, Group Inorganic Chemistry, Materials Science and Catalysis. (Prof. Julian Ross).
  Title : Nickel catalysts for internal reforming in molten carbonate fuel cells.
  Work content : Study for suitable nickel catalysts for use in fuel cells (MCFC, the molten carbonate fuel cell) to be able to use fuels cheaper than hydrogen. Fuel cells allow the generation of electricity with a very high efficiency. The research was part of the large fuel-cells project at ECN (The Netherlands Energy Research Centre, Petten).