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.

From June 13th to June 15th, the Chairs of “Fluid Process Engineering”, “Particle Technology” and “Thermodynamics and Energy 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…

At our last visit in November many ideas for process optimizations were discussed. In the meantime, these ideas were evaluated by means of CFD simulations and the results were presented at KNUST. This time the students Viola Hollenhorst and Anna Hoppe were accompanied by our co-worker Steve Flechsig. Besides presenting our results, we inspected some pilot plants and deepened the intercultural exchange with the KNUST students.A detailed travel…

Prof Kenig together with Alexander Zibart, Christian Wecker, René Bertling and our former group member Sebastian Rieks participated in  the annual meeting of the ProcessNet groups  Wärme- und Stoffübertragung (heat and mass transfer) and Computational Fluid Dynamics. The meeting took place on March 6th to 7th 2018 in the Maritim Hotel in Bremen. Sebastian Rieks and Alexander Zibart contributed to the field of heat and mass transfer. In this…

Our former scientific employee Sebastian Rieks took part at the “5th European Conference on Microfluidics” in Strasbourg (France). The conference was held from February 28th to March 2nd at the University of Strasbourg. Sebastian Rieks gave a presentation on the topic “CFD-simulation of phase-change-driven interrelated momentum, heat and species transfer in capillaries”.

Prof. Kenig, Dr.-Ing. Nicole Hüser, Steve Flechsig and Alexander Salten took part in the annual meeting of the ProcessNet group Fluid Process Engineering held in München from February 27th to 28th, 2018. Steve Flechsig gave a talk on " Rate-based-modelling of CO2-absorption columns with sandwich packings ", and presented a poster titled „ Investigations of fluid dynamics in sandwich packings with ultrafast X-ray tomography “ replacing Johanna…