The chair of Fluid Process Engineering welcomes a new member of the scientific staff.  Elham Hassan Nezhad studied Mechanical Engineering at Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz and Alzahra University (Iran) and graduated with a master thesis entitled "Development of an integrated model for water-energy-hydrogen nexus in economic zones (Chabahar free zone)". At our chair, she will work on the development of a HT-PCM heat storage system with…

On March 11 and 12, the first annual meeting of the new Energy, Chemistry and Climate Section took place at DECHEMA House in Frankfurt/Main. The Chair of Fluid Process Engineering and the Competence Center for Sustainable Energy Technology (KET) was represented with a oral presentation by Julia Riese on the topic of plant flexibility in connection with demand side management and presented an overview of previous research activities in this field.…

The joint annual meeting of the DECHEMA/VDI Fluid Process Engineering group took place from March 4 - 6 at the Ruhr University Bochum. In addition to Professor Julia Riese and Professor Eugeny Kenig, Sören Bernemann, Christopher Dechert, Thomas Ehlert, Patrick Franke and Dr. Nicole Lutters also took part. We presented our current research work in the field of fluid process engineering at Paderborn University in two oral presentations and on three…

Daokun Dai completed his doctorate on 12.12.2023, the chair would like to congratulate him! His doctoral lecture on the topic "Experimental investigation on the intensification of heat transfer during droplet condensation on the modified horizontal single tube" was held in front of family members and colleagues. This was followed by a successful defense of his thesis in front of the examination board. Daokun Dai worked as a research assistant…

Prof. Julia Riese will take over as head of the Chair of Fluid Process Engineering from October 1, 2023. Julia Riese studied Environmental Engineering and Resource Management at the Ruhr University Bochum and subsequently obtained her doctorate there. Until she moved to Paderborn University, she led a research group at the Laboratory for Fluid Separations in Bochum. Welcome and a great start in Paderborn!

On 01.09.2023 Marc Wende has successfully completed his PhD, the chair would like to congratulate him! His doctoral presentation on the topic " Theoretical and experimental investigations of small-scale distillation processes of binary mixtures using capillary forces" was held in front of family members and colleagues. This was followed by a successful defense of his thesis before the examination board. Marc Wende worked as a research assistant…

Since August 2023 our chair hosts the Ukrainian researcher, Dr. Olga Arsenyeva as a scholarship holder of the Philipp Schwartz Initiative of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation granted to researchers at risk. Dr. Arsenyeva finished her PhD in the National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute” (NTU “KhPI”), Ukraine, in 2005. Received DSc in optimal design of compact heat exchangers with enhanced heat transfer, NTU “KhPI”, in…

Prof. Kenig and Nils Mügge participated in the 17th International Heat Transfer Conference (IHTC17) in Cape Town, South Africa from August 14 - 18, 2023. Nils Mügge presented in a poster talk his current research results on the topic "Investigation of superimposed effects of dead volumes and frictional pressure losses of recuperators in isobaric expansion engines". For scientific exchange, discussions were then held with interested parties from…

On July 18, 2023, Steve Flechsig successfully completed his doctoral degree, and the department would like to extend heartfelt congratulations to him! His dissertation defense on the topic "Detailed investigations of flow and transport phenomena in columns with sandwich packings" was presented in front of family members and colleagues. Subsequently, he successfully defended his work in front of the examination committee. Steve Flechsig worked…

Our Chair congratulates Alexander Salten who successfully awarded his doctorate on June 7th, 2023. He delivered his doctoral presentation on the topic of ‘Modeling reactive absorption in random packings and model-based optimization of structured packings using the hydrodynamic analogies approach’, in attendance of family members and colleagues. Following the presentation, he successfully defended his work in front of the examination committee.…

Prof. Kenig and Patrick Franke visited Université Laval in Canada from May 14th to 20th, 2023, where they were welcomed by Prof. Larachi from the Faculty of Chemical Engineering. The purpose of the visit was to facilitate a scientific exchange on current research topics and establish a bilateral collaboration. Throughout their stay, they presented and discussed their respective projects, effectively combining their scientific expertise.

Professor Kenig and research assistants Dr. Andreas Schulz, Alexander Salten and Sören Bernemann participated in the annual meeting of the DECHEMA groups multiphase flow and particle measurement, which was held in Paderborn, Germany, from March 29th to March 30th, 2023. Three presentations were given by us there:  Dr. Andreas Schulz: „Numerical simulation of mass transfer at interacting fluid particles“  Alexander Salten: „Simulation of the…

The joint annual meeting of DECHEMA groups Fluid Process Engineering and Adsorption took place from 21 - 23 March at DECHEMA House in Frankfurt am Main. In addition to Professor Kenig, Dr Nicole Lutters, Alejandra Mapura, Christopher Dechert, Thomas Ehlert and Patrick Franke also took part. In three lectures and on three posters, we presented the current research work in the field of fluid process engineering at Paderborn University. Lectures:…

Prof. Kenig and Dr. Lutters, together with Reza Afsahnoudeh and Viola Hollenhorst, participated in the annual meeting of the DECHEMA groups Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat and Mass Transfer. The meeting took place from March 6th to 8th 2023 in Frankfurt am Main. We presented three posters:     Reza Afsahnoudeh: "Numerical investigation of surface structuring to increase the efficiency of pillow plate heat exchangers"     Viola…

Since January 2023, Dr. Litao Zhu has been employed as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Chair of Fluid Process Engineering. Dr. Zhu completed his PhD thesis on "Development of mesoscale models for gas-solid fluidization reactors and data-driven modeling" at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China) in 2021. Dr. Zhu will be working on CFD and data-driven modeling of mass and heat transfer in packed bed reactors in a postdoctoral role. The goal…