This year´s prom of the faculty of mechanical engineering was organized by our research assistant Christian Wecker. As in the last year, the celebration took place at Gut Lippesee. In a pleasant atmosphere the dean of faculty of mechanical engineering, Prof. Schöppner said some opening words for the evening. Next the buffet was savored. During the introduction of the doctorates, which was presented by Prof. Koch, the doctorates got their…
Since January 2018, a new research assistant has joined our team. Marc Wnde completed his master's thesis entitled "Experimental investigation of hydrodynamics of two-phase flow in micro capillaries using micro-particle image velocimetry" at TU Dortmund University. We welcome Marc and wish him a successful start!
For our project concerning the investigation of the heat and mass transfer in a hybrid solar dryer, our students Maike Waldhoff, Anna Hoppe and Viola Hollenhorst accompanied by our co-worker René Bertling visited the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Ghana. They inspected several pilot plants and discussed ideas for process optimizations with the founders of the startup G2JOSH Evergreen Company Ltd., which are now…
Prof. Kenig and the research assistant Alexander Zibart took part at the “12th sdewes Conference”, which was held from 4th to 8th of October in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Alexander Zibart gave a presentation entitled “Numerical Investigation of Liquid Falling Film Flow on the Wavy Surface of Vertical Pillow Plates” and presented a poster with the title “Friction Factor Correlation in Small-Scale Pillow-Plate Heat Exchangers for Low-Grade Heat…
Alexander Olenberg represented our Chair at the "27th European Symposium on Computer-Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE-27)" in Barcelona with his talk titled "Numerical Simulation of Two-Phase Flow in Representative Elements of Structured Packings". This conference was held parallel to the “10th World Congress of Chemical Engineering (WCCE-10)”, the “11th European Congress of Chemical Engineering (ECCE-11)”, the “4th European Congress of Applied…
At the end of september, our group traveled to Vienna to visit the Institute of Chemical, Environmental & Biological Engineering at Vienna University of Technology under the direction of Prof. Friedl. We exchanged about our research topics and discussed possible future cooperations. We thank our hosts for the warm welcome and the interesting talks.
The visit was complemented by a touristic framework, e.g. the visit of the Museum of Arts and a…
Since September, a new research assistant has joined our team. Anjam Byze studied at Salahaddin University in Erbil and University of Nottingham, where he graduated in 2012 with the master thesis "CFD modelling of a simplified aeroengine scavenge system and comparison to existing experimental data". We welcome Anjam and wish him a successful start in Paderborn!
Prof. Kenig participated in the 20th Conference on Process Integration, Modelling and Optimisation for Energy Saving and Pollution Reduction (PRES’17) from August 21st to August 24th 2017 in Tianjin. This conference takes places every year and deals with various aspects of sustainable energy supply. Prof. Kenig, who is a member of the International Scientific Committee of PRES’17, held a presentation on „Optimisation of Fluid Process Engineering…
Der Fakultätsrat der Fakultät für Kulturwissenschaften hat Prof. Kenig in einer Sitzung am 12. Juli 2017 in den Vorstand des Belgienzentrums (BELZ) gewählt. Die Amtszeit beträgt zwei Jahre und beginnt am 01. Oktober 2017.Das Belgienzentrum beschäftigt sich mit der Erforschung der Vielfalt der belgischen Kultur vor aktuellem und historischen Hintergrund:https://kw.uni-paderborn.de/belz/An unserem Lehrstuhl wird ein Projekt in Kooperation mit der…
Since June 2017, Alborz Manavi works with us at our chair. He studied mechanical engineering and gained his Bachelor of Science in 2010 at the University of Mazandaran, Iran. Later in 2013, he graduated as a Master of Science at the Babol University of Technology, Iran. His research interests are fluid mechanics and heat transfer simulations, turbulence modelling and nanofluids. We wish Alborz a pleasant start here in Paderborn!
Our Chair congratulates Anna Chasanis who successfully awarded her doctorate on June 7st, 2017. The title of her dissertation is “Numerical and experimental investigation and geometry-based optimisation of innovative separation-units for the intensification of destillation processes”.
A presentation of her thesis took place in the presence of colleagues, friends and family. Afterwards she defended her thesis successfully in front of the…
Our Chair congratulates Nicole Hüser who successfully awarded her doctorate with distinction on May 31st, 2017. The title of her dissertation is “Investigation of the separation of carbon dioxide with alkanolamines”.
A presentation of her thesis took place in the presence of interested listeners and family. Afterwards she defended her thesis in front of the scientific jury with great success.
From 2009 Mrs. Hüser worked at our Chair in the…
On the 10th of May, 2017, Professor Kenig and the scientific employee Sebastian Rieks visited the Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM) in Bremen. They met Professor Dreyer and some of his staff members who are working in the field of fluid mechanics and multiphase flow. The participants of the meeting presented selected research results, followed by intense discussions. A main topic was the numerical and experimental…
On 05/09/2017 the first Belgium Day took place at Paderborn University on the topic “Belgium and Europe”. Beside talks and discussions there was a poster presentation in which our research assistant Lukas Bolenz presented our cooperation with the group of Prof. Dominique Toye from University of Liège. In the scope of this cooperation we are able to use the tomograph in Liège for generating images of the liquid distribution in structured packings.…
Our research assistant Torben Knoke attended the annual meeting of the ProcessNet group "Energy Process Engineering", held in Frankfurt a.M. on March 21st and 22nd. During his lecture on “Model-based analysis of novel heat engines for low-grade waste-heat conversion” he presented results of our cooperation with the Dutch company Encontech B.V.
