The Press and Communication Office published a news article on the university’s home page about our participation in the project “ReProvAP”, which started at the beginning of this year. The aim of the project is to reduce climate-relevant process emissions by means of a more precise design of structured packing columns. In this project, which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, our chair works on the column…

Since the beginning of September, Viola Hollenhorst works as a research assistant in our group. Viola Hollenhorst has finished his master thesis on "evaluation of the pressure-throughput behavior and mixing quality of different faceted mixers based on CFD simulations" at the chair of "Kunststofftechnik". At our chair, she will work on the numerical investigation of the influence of surface roughness on fluid dynamics and heat transport. We…

The chair of Fluid Process Engineering welcomes a new member of the scientific staff. Reza Afsahnoudeh studied Chemical Engineering at TU Dortmund University and graduated with a master thesis entitled "Simulation of gliding arc plasma reactor for pyrolysis of Methane with Argon as carrier gas". We wish him a successful start in Paderborn.

Dr. Lutters, Abbas Jarullah Sangoor Al-Lami, Mike Bothe, and Felix Buckmann participated in ACHEMA PULSE from June 15th to June 16th, which was held online. Abbas Jarullah Sangoor Al-Lami gave a talk entitled "Heat transfer enhancement within internally channeled tubes". Furthermore, Mike Bothe presented his research work in an oral presentation with the topic "Dynamic simulation of hazardous situations in industrial closed loop processes…

Our research associate Matti Grabo joined the management office of the Competence Center for Sustainable Energy Technology (KET) on April 1st, 2021. He was first elected to the executive board of the KET as a representative of the scientific employees in 2017 and has held this status since then. In the new position, Matti Grabo will support the current managing director Gerrit Sonnenrein in representing the competence center and with day-to-day…

The joint annual meeting of the ProcessNet groups Multiphase Flow and Computational Fluid Dynamics took place online from March 09-10. Our scientific staff member Alexander Zibart presented his results on film flow on the wavy surface of pillow plates on a poster. Our former staff member Andreas Schulz gave a talk entitled "Multicomponent mass transport at moving phase interfaces considering diffusion cross effects".

The joint annual meting of the ProcessNet groups fluid proces engineering and heat and mass transfer took place online from February 24 - 26. Besides Professor Kenig, the scientific staff members René Bertling, Mike Bothe, Felix Buckmann, Matti Grabo, Nils Mügge, Christian Wecker and Marc Wende as well as our former staff member Daokun Dai participated. In a total of five lectures and three posters thes presented the current research work in the…

We are pleased to congratulate our Head of the Chair Prof. Dr.-Ing. Eugeny Kenig, who was greatly honoured by Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas in Moscow as one of the "Top Scientists 2020" (https://en.gubkin.ru/report/2020.html).

Our chair congratulates Alexander Olenberg who successfully awarded his doctorate on February 11th, 2021. The title of his completed thesis is "Investigation and optimization of structured packings using CFD simulations". After the 30 minute presentation, he successfully defended his thesis in front of the scientific jury. Alexander Olenberg worked at our chair in the areas of projects, research and teaching from 2012. We wish Alexander all the…

The annual meeting of the ProcessNet group extraction took place online from February 04. - 05.. The research associate Christian Wecker participated and presented his recent results in the field of droplet formation and binary droplet coalescence under consideration of Marangoni convection, which result from a completed DFG project, in a lecture.

We welcome a new research assistant: Emre Acar has finished his master thesis on "design and validation of an online control concept for the coloration of polyolefine recyclates with liquid colorls" at the chair of "Kunststofftechnik" in cooperation with the company KraussMaffei Extrusion GmbH. At our chair, he will work on model-based optimization of latent cold and heat storages. We welcome Emre and wish him a successful start!

Since the middle of October, Felix Funk works as a research assistant in our group. Felix Funk studied at Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin and finished his master thesis on " Numerical modelling (CFD) of mixing and stirring processes with different media and concentrations". At our chair, he will work on modelling and numerical investigation of transport phenomena at moving boundaries using Computational Fluid Dynamics. We welcome…

The chair of Fluid Process Engineering welcomes a new member of the scientific staff. Thomas Ehlert finished his master thesis with the topic "Modeling of a continuous redtification with incomplete reflux in packed columns based on hydrodynamic analogies" at our chair. In his research work, he will focus on theretical investigations of the fluid dynamics ans mass transfer behavior of moving columns. We wish him every success in his work!

Since the beginning of September Sören Bernemann works as a research assistant in our group. Sören Bernemann finished his master thesis on "creation of a CFD model for the development of an innovative separating apparatus for nitrogen recovery from agricultural waste" at our chair and will continue to work on CFD simulations and apparatus development. We welcome Sören and wish him a successful start!

We welcome a new research assistant: Christopher Dechert has finished his master thesis on "Investigation of a novel packing structure using CFD methods" at our chair and will continue to work on CFD simulations in structured packings. We wish a good start and much success.