Physical and Chemical Foundations of Process Engineering
Major research interests
It is one goal of our group to determine physical and chemical data and parameters that are related to the chemical engineering and bioengineering processes investigated at the MPI. Based on this, the group investigates theoretically and experimentally separation and reaction processes with a focus on preparative chromatography, enantioselective crystallization, extraction of natural products and homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis. Of special interest is the evaluation of the potential of forced periodic processes.
Current PhD students in the IMPRS program
Susann Triemer
PhD project: Coupling of extraction, reaction and separation for continuous artemisinin production
IMPRS alumni
Francesca Cascella
PhD thesis: Resolution of enantiomers of chiral compounds using crystallization processes: from fundamental studies to process development
(Oct. 1, 2021)
(Oct. 1, 2021)
Ivana Mutavdžin
PhD thesis: Contributions to develop enantioselective chromatographic processes (Nov. 24, 2017)
Francisco Vitor Santos da Silva
PhD thesis: Isolation of target molecules out of complex mixtures using continuous countercurrent liquid chromatography
(Sep. 29, 2017)
(Sep. 29, 2017)
Erik Temmel
PhD thesis: Design of continuous crystallization processes
(Jun. 15, 2016)
(Jun. 15, 2016)
Tam Le Minh
PhD thesis: Analysis of new modes of preferential crystallization to separate enantiomers
(Jan. 24, 2014)
(Jan. 24, 2014)
Balamurali Sreedhar
PhD thesis: Preparative Separation of Multi-component Mixtures Using Stationary Phase Gradients
(Dec. 17, 2010)
(Dec. 17, 2010)