Prof. Kenig and the research assistant Sebastian Rieks took part at the annual meeting of the ProcessNet group "Computational Fluid Dynamics" in the hotel "The Westin Bellevue" in Dresden, Germany. The meeting was held on the 16th and 17th of March, 2017. Prof. Kenig presented a poster entitled "Investigation of the liquid flow in structured packings based on numerical simulations" as a representative for Alexander Olenberg. Sebastian Rieks also…
Prof. Kenig, Steve Flechsig, Alexander Olenberg, Mark Piper, Alexander Salten and Tim Wolf took part at the annual meeting of the ProcessNet subject divisions Fluid Separations and Membrane Technology held in Cologne from March 8th to 10th, 2017. Alexander Olenberg gave an oral presentation with the title „CFD-simulations of two-phase flow in representative elements of stuctured packings“. Furthermore, Steve Flechsig, Mark Piper, Alexander Salten…
Prof. Kenig and the research assistant Sebastian Rieks took part at the annual meeting of the ProcessNet group "Heat- and Mass-Transfer" in the Bürgerzentrum in Bruchsal, Germany. The meeting was held on the 16th and 17th of February, 2017. Sebastian Rieks gave an oral presentation with the title "Modelling and simulation of phase-change phenomena of binary mixtures in capillary structures".
Our project partners from the TU Darmstadt, Prof.…
Since January 2017, Dr. Olga Arsenyeva is working at our chair in Paderborn University as a scholarship holder of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Dr. Arsenyeva finished her PhD in the National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute” (NTU “KhPI”), Ukraine, in 2005. Her topic of research was: “Plate Heat Exchangers for steam duties for improvement heat and technological processes of industrial flow-sheets”. Until the end of…
Since January 2017, a new research assistant has joined our team. Rene Bertling completed his master's thesis entitled "CFD Simulations of Gas / Particle Flows for Different Fluidization Regimes Occurring in FCC Catalytic Cracking Units: Evaluation of the DDPM Method Available in the FLUENT Software" at Paderborn University. We welcome Rene and wish him a successful start!
Since January 2017, a new research assistant has joined our team. Lukas Bolenz completed his master's thesis entitled "Optimization of feeding strategies for the fermentative production of erinacine C and evaluation of industrial-scale production" at TU Dortmund University. We welcome Lukas and wish him a successful start!
In the scope of the project "Start Up Factory Kumasi - Paderborn" funded by the DAAD, the research assistant Alexander Olenberg and the student Maike Waldhoff from the Chair of Fluid Process Engineering (FVT), traveled from the 19/11/-30/11/2016 along with 7 further staff and students from the University of Paderborn to Ghana. The seven students from the University of Paderborn come from diverse backgrounds as economics, industrial engineering…
Our former research assistant Roland Engberg was awarded by the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering with the dSPACE-price for the best PhD thesis titled „Single droplets in liquid/liquid systems: numerical investigation of fluid dynamics, mass transfer and Marangoni convection“. The price amounted to 1.000€ is donated by the company dSPACE GmbH and is handed out annually during the ball of the faculty.
Source of the picture: Faculty of Mechanical…
The IFP Énergies nouvelles (IFPEN) is a French research institute, which is based in Rueil-Malmaison and has a further site in Solaize near Lyon. The main research areas of IFPEN are sustainable mobility, new energies and flue gas treatment. It is funded both from the state budget and from industrial projects on a fifty-fifty basis.Prof. Eugeny Kenig and Alexander Olenberg had the possibility to visit the IFPEN site in Solaize on October 6th,…
A recently installed power display of the Competence Centre for Sustainable Energy Paderborn (KET) informs visitors about the daily amount of power generated in the Paderborn area by wind, water, photovoltaic and biomass systems.
The display is located at the western entrance of facility E and was funded by Westfalen Weser Energie Gruppe and WestfalenWIND GmbH. It’s official inauguration accompanied the launch of the project „Power to heat OWL“…
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.
