Last monday, the chair of Fluid Process Engineering together with about 30 students was on a field trip to visit Evonik AG in the chemical park in Marl. Beside insights into the work routine of a process engineer, we got a guided tour through the technical labs, did a round trip through in the chemcial park and finally visited the acrylic acid plant, which is the largest production plant in the park. Many thanks to Mrs Lührmann of Evonik AG for…

Prof. Kenig and Lukas Bolenz attended the 14th International Conference on Chemical and Process Engineering that took place from May 26 to 29 in Bologna, Italy. Lukas Bolenz presented a poster entitled "Liquid flow morphology of viscous systems in structured packings: investigations by X-ray tomography".

On the 2nd of April, a group of our chair took part in the workshop "Current Topics on Packed Columns" in Liège, Belgium. Together with researchers and representatives from industry from Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland, we discussed current research topics in the field of packed columns. Our staff member Lukas Bolenz held a presentation with the title "Experimental and theoretical investigation of fluid dynamics in structured…

Prof. Kenig and Dr. Lutters together with Lukas Bolenz, Mike Bothe, Steve Flechsig and Alexander Salten participated in the annual meeting of the ProcessNet groups Fluidverfahrenstechnik und Membrantechnik (fluid process engineering and membrane technology). The meeting took place on March 27th to 29th 2019 in the Dorint Hotel Sanssouci in Potsdam. Steve Flechsig held an oral presentation titled "Partial use of partially flooded packages" and…

From 18. to 20.03.18, Prof. Kenig and our scientific staff Andreas Schulz and Alexander Zibart took part in the annual meeting of the ProcessNet group Computational Fluid Dynamics, which was held at the Dechema Haus in Frankfurt. Andreas Schulz presented a poster with the topic "A finite-volume approach for mass transfer at moving interfaces" and Alexander Zibart gave an oral presentation on "Reduction of spurious currents in multiphase…

Prof Kenig together with Christian Wecker and Marc Wende participated in  the annual meeting of the ProcessNet groups Wärme- und Stoffübertragung (heat and mass transfer). The meeting took place on March 18th to 19th 2019 in the Bredeney Hotel in Essen. Christian Wecker held an oral presentation titled “Numerical investigations on mass transfer and fluid mechanics during drop formation” and Marc Wende presented a poster on “Modelling approach for…

Our research assistant Matti Grabo attended the 2. Renewable Energy Technologies Conference (RET.Con 2019) in Nordhausen, Thuringia, from 7th till 8th of February. He presented a model to simulate the temperature distribution in photovoltaic modules, which was developed within the framework of the project “SoLifE”.

Our research assistant Christian Wecker took part in the annual meeting of the ProcessNet group "Extraction and Phytoextracts" in Muttenz, Switzerland, from 7 - 8 February 2019. Christian Wecker presented a poster with the title "Species transport and fluid mechanics in drop formation under consideration of Marangon convection by CFD".

During the visit of the KNUST in Ghana (Kumasi), a workshop on computer aided design (CAD) was given by our students Anna Hoppe and Viola Hollenhorst and our colleague Steve Flechsig. With examples, Ghanaian students were taught skills that they used in various computer-aided exercises. Further workshops were prepared by Saranya Nithiyanantharasa, who talked about project management, Christian Seewald presented the Kano model as part of product…

Prof. Kenig and our research assistant Lukas Bolenz participated in the annual meeting of the ProcessNET group "Prozess-, Apparate- und Anlagentechnik" (PAAT) from November 12th to 13th, 2018 in Cologne. Lukas Bolenz presented a scientific poster entitled "Tomographic investigations of the fluid dynamics of viscous systems in packed columns".

Our Chair congratulates Sebastian Rieks who is awarded his doctorate with distinction on November 7th, 2018. The title of his dissertation is “Modelling and numerical simulation of coupled transport phenomena in capillary structures of small-scale distillation processes for vapour-liquid binary systems”. A presentation of his thesis took place in the presence of interested listeners and family. Afterwards he defended his thesis in front of the…

Our Chair congratulates Mark Piper who successfully awarded his doctorate on September 7th, 2018. The title of his dissertation is “Analysis of fluid dynamics and heat transfer in pillow-plate heat exchangers.”.A presentation of his thesis took place in the presence of colleagues, friends and family. Afterwards he defended his thesis successfully in front of the scientific jury.From 2011 Mr. Piper worked at our Chair in the fields of research,…

Since the midst of July Nils Mügge works as a research assistant in our group. Nils graduated with as masters from FH Bielefeld and wrote his thesis with the title "Method development for the numeric multi flow simulation in dish washers" at Miele & Cie. KG in Gütersloh. His scientific work will focus on heat transfer in Isobaric Expansion Engines (IEE). We wish him all the best for his start in Paderborn!

The chair of Fluid Process Engineering welcomes a new member of the scientific staff. Mike Bothe studied Chemical Engineering at TU Dortmund University and graduated with a master thesis entitled "Theoretische Betrachtung des laminaren Strahlzerfalls am Rotationszerstäuber". We wish him a successful start in Paderborn.