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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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From June 24th to August 26th, the Chairs of “Fluid Process Engineering” and “Particle Technology” hosted an excursion to ACHEMA at Frankfurt for a group of students. ACHEMA can be considered as the world's leading exhibition for chemical engineering and the process industry. While students could explore the exhibition on their own, the chairs also offered several guided tours for the students where special subjects were explored at different…

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Prof. Kenig together with Abbas Jarullah Sangoor al-Lami, Felix Buckmann and Luz Alejandra Mapura Ramirez participated in the annual meeting of the ProcessNet groups "Reaktionstechnik" und "Wärme- und Stofftransport" ("Reaction engineering" and "heat and mass transfer"). The meeting took place on July 18th to 20th 2022 in Würzburg. Felix Buckmann held an oral presentation titled "Experimental study on the condensation of pure substances in outer…

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Our Chair congratulates Lukas Bolenz who successfully awarded his doctorate on July 7th, 2022. The title of his dissertation is “Investigation of the rectification of viscous mixtures in packing columns based on tomographic measurement 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 2017 Mr. Bolenz worked at…

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The Competence Center for Sustainable Energy Technology (KET) celebrated its tenth anniversary on Monday (04.07.22). In addition to a review of the past 10 years KET, future-oriented and sustainable energy concepts were presented in keynote speeches from industry and an open dialogue on sustainable energy systems was held with representatives from politics and industry. The celebration ended with a guided tour through the laboratories of the…

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Prof. Kenig and Dr. Lutters together with Sören Bernemann, Mike Bothe, Christopher Dechert, Iman Hami Dindar, Thomas Ehlert, Luz Alejandra Mapura Ramirez and Marc Wende participated in the annual meeting of the ProcessNet groups Fluidverfahrenstechnik und Hochdruckverfahrenstechnik (fluid process engineering and high pressure process engineering). The meeting took place on May 2nd to 3th 2022 in the DECHEMA-Haus in Frankfurt am Main. Marc Wende…

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Dr. Alexander Kronberg, Encontech B.V. (left) und Nils Mügge (right) at HPC Conference 2022

Nils Mügge, together with the partner company Encontech B.V., participated in the Heat Powered Cycles (HPC) Conference 2022 which was held from April 10th to 13th in Bilbao, Spain. Nils Mügge presented his research work in an oral presentation with the topic "On heat regeneration limitations in heat engines with dense working fluids".

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The chair of Fluid Process Engineering welcomes a new member of the scientific staff. Patricke Franke studied Chemical Engineering at TU Dortmund University and graduated with a master thesis entitled "Experimental and theoretical investigation of NOx absorption in packed columns". At our chair, he will work on the experimental and theoretical investigation of the fluid dynamics and mass transfer behavior of sandwich packings. We wish him a…

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Mike Bothe and Marc Wende participated in the 24th Conference on Process Integration, Modelling and Optimisation for Energy Saving and Pollution Reduction (PRES‘21) which took place from November 01 to 03 in Brno, Czech Republic. Mike Bothe gave a talk entitled “Examination of hazardous situations in industrial closed-loop processes using dynamic simulations”. Marc Wende presented his research work in an oral presentation with the topic…

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At the beginning of October, the Chair of Fluid Process Engineering held a teambuilding workshop at Driburger Grund in Altenbeken. The aim of the workshop was to work together as a team by solving a self-developed exit game in small groups and thus to promote the team spirit of the work group and to integrate new employees.

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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…

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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…

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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.

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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…

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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…

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