Since August another new research assistant joined our team. Alexander Zibart completed his master thesis entitled "Numerical investigation of the flow and heat transfer characteristics of single-phase turbulent flow in pillow plates" at the Chair of Fluid Process Engineering at the University of Paderborn.We welcome Alexander and wish him a good start!

Since July 7th, a new research assistant has joined the Chair. Daokun Dai completed his bachelor studies at the Universities of Qingdao (China) and Paderborn. He graduated his Master thesis entitled “Experimental investigation of a laboratory tumble reactor”.We are looking forward to a successful collaboration!

On July 18th, we were very glad to welcome our friends and colleagues from the Chairs of Fluid Process Engineering of the Universities of Bochum and Dortmund. Water fun games and refreshing drinks ensured a pleasant cooling in summer's temperatures and built up an ideal setting for laboratory tours and valuable exchanges of experience.

Our annual summer party took place on July 3rd, fully affected by the Soccer World Cup. Together with the Particle Technology Group and the Chair of Thermodynamics and Energy Technology we celebrated the end of the semester. Students, employees and former staff enjoyed many different attractions, among them the performance of the three Chairs‘ own band „Die Verfahrenen“, so that the party turned out to be an amazing and good humored event.

Professor Kenig and the research assistant Murat Yazgi took part in the 24th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE 24) which took place in the Hungarian capital of Budapest. Professor Kenig presented his work on „Numerical investigations of packed bed reactors with irregular particle arrangements”. Another lecture about „Numerical investigations of packed bed reactors with irregular particle arrangements” was given by…

Alexander Olenberg attended the annual meeting of the CAPE Forum, held in Milan from Mai 12th to 2014, where he gave a lecture on "Optimization of structured packings using twisted tape inserts: A numerical study"

Prof. Kenig, Sebastian Rieks and Torben Knoke attended the annual meeting of the Process Net subject division “Reaction Engineering” held together with the subject division “Microreaction engineering” from April 28th to April 29th, 2014 in Würzburg. Torben Knoke presented a poster with the results of his master’s thesis “Numerical investigation of the influence of Marangoni convection in liquid-liquid plug flow in micro channels”.

Prof. Kenig, Nicole Hüser, Julian Tran and Murat Yazgi attended the annual meeting of the ProcessNet groups “Extraction” and “Fluid Process Engineering” held in Fulda from March 27th to 29th,2014.A plenary lecture on “A unified definition and determination of characteristic geometrical parameters for the design of finned-tube and pillow-plate heat exchangers”, was given by our partners in the InnovA2 project. Two oral presentation were held in…

Prof. Kenig, Manuel de Matos Alves and Roland Engberg attended the annual meeting of the ProcessNet thematic groups “Multiphase Flows" and "Heat and Mass Transfer" held in Fulda from March 24th to 25th, 2014. Roland Engberg gave a lecture on "Coupled transport phenomena at moving boundaries: Insights with CFD-Simulations". Manuel de Matos Alves presented his work "Numerical investigation of fluid dynamics and heat transfer during the cooling of…

The Chair of fluid process engineering invited interested students to participate in an one-day trip to Bayer Material Science. Our host is a leading manufacturer of high-performance materials, such as polycarbonates, polyurethanes and innovative system solutions which are used in a wide range of everyday applications. The participants gained an exciting insight into the company and had the opportunity to visit industrial plants. We are grateful…

The convincing doctoral examination of Dipl.-Ing. Ulf Brinkmann meant an encouraging start to the year for all of us. The presentation of his thesis called "Modeling of reactive separation processes in devices with structured components" took place on January 13 in front of interested listeners. He afterwards defended his work against the questions of the board of examiners with great success.Ulf Brinkmann already had started his PhD under the…

Getting closer to this year's end, a Christmas celebration took place for all employees and students of the chair. We enjoyed tasty Christmas pastries and reviewed the year 2013 in a homely atmosphere. Additionally, presents for everyone in the room were exchanged by playing different team games: the higher the score of a team, the better the chances became for getting the present one preferred.The celebration continued together with the chair…