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BCI's ChemCar achieves 3rd place with biocatalytic reaction

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The ChemCar team of the BCI faculty achieved an excellent 3rd place with their pHantastic Car.

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The ChemCar team of the BCI faculty achieved an excellent 3rd place in this year's ChemCar competition with their pHantastic Car.
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This result is all the more remarkable because for the first time in the history of the competition, a biocatalytic process is used to drive the vehicle.

The team (Frederike Heinen, Jana Klüppelberg, Thorsten Luttmann, Fabian Marischen, Thilo Nissalk, Arthur Schiller and Mark Zaunbrecher) uses the enzyme catalase to drive two phase-shifted, parallel-connected piston engines via the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide.
The team also broke new ground in the stop reaction and used a pH clock for the first time.

Due to the innovation of the technology used, the jury awarded the highest number of points for the drive concept to Dortmund.