Press release

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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.…

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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.

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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…

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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:…

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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…

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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…

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From 23rd to 25th November, our chair hosted the 4th overall project meeting of the BMBF project ReProvAP. The project, which is funded for three years, started in March 2021 with five university partners and seven representatives from the process industry. It aims to reduce climate-relevant process emissions by improving the design of columns filled with structured packings. On the first days, the project results of the first one and a half…

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Nils Mügge participated in the first edition of the Energy, Environment and Digital Transition (E2DT) conference in Milan, Italy, Oct. 23-26, 2022. There, Mr. Mügge presented his research topic "A Thermal Model for Recuperative Heat Engines Operating with Dense Working Fluids".

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After three years of pandemic, we were finally able to hold a strategy meeting again this year. This year, it took us to the Mosel in Bernkastel-Kues. Besides a writing seminar with Professor Kenig and chair seminars, the strategic orientation of the chair for the coming year was discussed. During the subsequent joint activities, such as the visit to the castle ruins of Landshut, the team and many new colleagues were able to get to know each…

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Our chair congratulates Andreas Schulz who successfully awarded his doctorate on October 17th, 2022. The title of his dissertation is “Numerical simulation of mass transfer phenomena at moving fluid phase boundaries using CFD-based methods”. 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 2016 Andreas Schulz worked at…

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Prof. Kenig together with Mike Bothe and Christopher Dechert participated in the Distillation & Absorption 2022 from September 19th to September 22th 2022 in Toulouse. Christopher Dechert held an oral presentation titled "CFD-Based Investigation of the Packing Microstructure Influence on Droplet Behavior and Film Flow". Mike Bothe presented a poster on "Model Based and Experimental Analysis of the Dynamic Reactive Absorption Loop Behavior". A…

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