Prof. Kenig and research assistent Torben Knoke attended the “ProcessNet-Annual Meeting and 32. DECHEMA-Annual Meeting of the biotechnologists 2016” held in Aachen from September 12th to September 15th, 2016. In a joint lecture on the title „On the transformation of heat into mechanical energy – new principles, designs and modelling methods“, Prof. Kenig and Dr. Alexander Kronberg (Encontech BV, NL) presented the results of the research…
Since September 2016, Tatiana Popova works as a visiting scientist at our chair. She studied at the Gubkin-University of Oil and Gas in Moskau, Russia in the field of design, installation and operation of pipe transport systems. Her master's thesis was written on the topic "Optimization of heat exchangers in oil/gas transport systems".
Tatiana Popova will be working on the analysis of the implementation of pillow-plate heat-exchangers in oil/gas…
Since September 2016, a new research assistant has joined our team. Andreas Schulz completed his master's thesis entitled "Investigation of diffusion processes in coupled problems: thermoelasticity vs. poroelasticity" at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
We welcome Andreas and wish him a successful start!
Dr.-Ing. Wilhelm Peters and Dr.-Ing. Michael Leuer (both members of the Faculty for Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Mathematics) were awarded with the Forschungspreis 2016 on the 7th of september for their innovative idea "Thermisch-elektrischer Entwurf hoch effizienter Ladegeräte für Elektrofahrzeuge". Object of the proposal is the development of an appropriate design methology for on-board chargers of electric vehicles, that…
On the 24th of August, 2016, our former colleague Ulrike Wittenbrink passed away. She was employed at our chair from 2007 to 2014 as a secretary and thus helped to develop it right from its beginning.
Our thoughts are with her family and friends during this difficult time.
Our Chair congratulates Ömer Yildirim who successfully awarded his doctorate on August 22th, 2016. The title of his dissertation is “Theoretical and experimental investigation of fluiddynamics and transport processes in sandwich packings”. A presentation of his thesis took place in the presence of interested listeners, family and many alumni. Afterwards he successfully defended his thesis in front of the scientific jury.
From 2009, Mr. Yildirim…
Since January 15th, a new research assistant has joined our team. Christian Wecker completed his master's thesis entitled "Conception and construction of an experimental plant to visualise the flow in Pillow-Plate heat exchangers" at Paderborn University.
We welcome Christian and wish him a successful start!
On the 5th of August 2016 our annual Chair excursion took place. This time we went canoeing on the Weser. We started our tour after being instructed into canoeing, from Holzminden downriver to Bodenwerder. After the first half of the tour we took a rest in the beautiful village Polle. Close to the Everstein Castle we had lunch at the riverside. Afterwards we proceeded the tour to our destination.
Once we reached Bodenwerder the very next…
Professor Kenig and Mark Piper took part at a congress that was organised by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) in Washington D.C. from July 10th to 14th.
The congress ASME HT/FE/ICNMM consisted of three related conferences: Heat Transfer, Fluid Engineering & Nanochannels and Microchannels & Minichannels. In the area of heat transfer, this event can be described as one of the largest and most important ones.
In Washington D.C.…
Since July 2016, a new research assistant has joined our team. Emre Karaefe completed his master's thesis entitled "Simulation-based investigation of enhancing inserts in heat exchanger pipes for product-reserving heating of temperature-sensitive substance systems" at the Ruhr Universität Bochum.We welcome Emre and wish him a successful start!
The research society process engineering (Forschungs-Gesellschaft Verfahrens-Technik e.V., GVT) works in the field of all production processes that serve aggregation, separation or conversion of substances. Both research projects of general nature as well as projects proposed by members of the society are funded from own resources and state resources. The GVT is divided into different work groups (AK) that are connected to specific topics, each…
On April 11th, 2016, a workshop about “Complex Multiphase Systems“ was organised by our chair. We were happy to welcome Prof. Kuipers, head of the “Research Group Multiphase Reactors” from the University of Technology in Eindhoven, as well as three of his staff members to the workshop.
During the day, eight presentations and many discussions on different topics in the field of “Complex Multiphase Systems” formed the main part of the workshop.…
Prof. Kenig, Alexander Olenberg and Christian Wecker took part in the annual meeting of the ProcessNet group Fluid Process Engineering held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen from March 16th to 17th, 2016. Prof. Kenig gave a talk on "Comparison of MEA and AMP as solvents for CO2 capturing with the rate-based approach", replacing Nicole Hüser. Another oral presentation was given by Alexander Olenberg on "Numerical investigation of pressure drop, hold-up…
Our Chair congratulates Roland Engberg who successfully awarded his doctorate with distinction on March 10th, 2016. The title of his dissertation is “Single droplets in liquid/liquid systems: numerical investigation of fluid dynamics, mass transfer and Marangoni convection”.
A presentation of his thesis took place in the presence of interested listeners, family and many alumni. Afterwards he defended his thesis in front of the scientific jury…
Prof. Kenig and the research assistant Alexander Olenberg took part in the annual meeting of the ProcessNet groups “Agglomeration and Bulk Solids Technology, Multiphase Flow and Computational Fluid Dynamics” held in Bingen from February 29th to March 2nd, 2016. Alexander Olenberg gave an oral presentation titled "Investigation of two-phase flow in structured packings with the aid of CFD" in the “Computational Fluid Dynamics” session.
Also our…
