Laboratories

Research at the Department of Chemical Engineering links fundamental research and application-oriented development. We believe that this way we can contribute to the advancement of the processes serving current human needs as well as the methods for optimally designing these processes.

Current research focus – among others – is on:

• material and processes in the energy sector, including advanced battery and fuel-cell materials,
• sustainable process development including biobased processes (e.g. for biofuels and bioplastics), capture and utilization of carbon dioxide, waste2value in waste-water treatment, energy optimization, and life-cycle assessment

The research includes the corresponding fundamentals e.g. for fluid dynamics and mass transfer in multiphase systems, chemistry of sol-gel processes and coatings, 3D-image analysis for tomographic techniques. Two major characteristics of our expertise are that we are active on all relevant scales from molecules to large-scale equipment and that we can cover all aspects of process design from conceptual design to optimization of individual equipment.

Our research is organized along these axes:

Nanomaterials, Catalysis, Electrochemistry (NCE)

Products, Environment, and Processes (PEPs)