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The IOB at the CFD Conference in Trondheim
The 15th International Conference on Industrial Applications of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) was held in Trondheim, Norway, from the 10th to the 13th of June, 2024. About 120 participants from all over the world met to discuss the latest developments and CFD methods. Our colleagues Moritz Diewald, Moritz Eickhoff, Franziska Ott and Kathrina Theisen presented their work at the conference,…
„FlexLadleHeat“ Kick-Off Meeting
On 2 July 2024, the kick-off meeting for the “FlexLadleHeat” BMWK joint project took place in Kehl. The IOB and GHI from RWTH Aachen University and Badische Stahl-Engineering GmbH met at Badische Stahlwerke. The IOB was represented by Prof. Christian Wuppermann, Nico Schmitz, Nicolas Dinsing and Hannah Kaiser. In cooperation with the RWTH Institute for Rock Metallurgy (GHI), Badische Stahlwerke…
Update on the BioH2Ref project: How cow manure is turned into green hydrogen
In the “BioH2Ref” project, funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK), we collaborate with BtX energy GmbH and the Schleupen family on their Lefkeshof farm in Krefeld to transform animal excrement, in the form of manure and slurry, into high-purity hydrogen, which can be used in hydrogen buses for public transportation. The family-run farm not only…
13th European Electric Steelmaking Conference
The 13th European Electric Steelmaking Conference was held from 3rd to 7th June, 2024 where over 350 participants from all over the world came together at the Philharmonie Essen in Germany in order to discuss the latest developments and technologies in the field of electric steelmaking. Our colleagues, Thomas Echterhof, Moritz Eickhoff, Felix Kaiser, and Siddharth Nachankar had the honor of…
General assembly HyInHeat
From the 10th to the 13th of June our colleges Christian Wuppermann, Thomas Echterhof, Felix Kaiser, Johannes Losacker, Alex Garcia, Nico Schmitz, Lukas Sankowski and Andrés Ramírez Sánchez meet for the General assembly of HyInHeat In Stockholm organized by the colleges from Swerim, SSAB and Linde. Our visit was structured over three days, beginning with an enriching tour of KTH Royal Institute…
3rd Aachen Hydrogen Colloquium
The 3rd Aachen Hydrogen Colloquium took place on 14 and 15 May — a groundbreaking event organized by the Future Cluster Hydrogen at RWTH Aachen University and Forschungszentrum Jülich. Over the course of two days, the colloquium provided an important framework for the exchange of knowledge and ideas between scientists and industrial partners. The event was received with great enthusiasm and…
An era comes to an end: Professor Herbert Pfeifer leaves the department after 26 years
After an impressive 26-year tenure, Herbert Pfeifer has retired at the end of March 2024 as holder of the Chair of High Temperature Technology and Head of the Department of Industrial Furnaces and Heat Engineering. Since taking up his post in April 1998, Professor Pfeifer has significantly shaped the institute and developed it into a major player in high-temperature technology. His retirement…
The IOB at the AMAP Forum 2024
The 25th and 26th of April our colleagues Katharina Rothhöft, Moritz Eickhoff, Christian Schwotzer, Andrés Ramírez Sánchez and professor Herbert Pfeifer joined the AMAP colloquium in Aachen which was organized by Advanced Metals and Processes research cluster. This association of companies and institutes represents research focus on aluminium at RWTH Aachen University with partners from the…
The IOB on the Algarve coast: 14th European Conference on Industrial Furnaces and Boilers
Every two years — traditionally in the week after Easter — the European Conference on Industrial Furnaces and Boilers (INFUB) takes place in Portugal. This year, almost 180 representatives from research and industry came together on the Algarve coast from April 2nd-5th to discuss the latest developments in thermal process technology. The IOB was represented by Prof. Herbert Pfeifer together with…
Ceremonial Handover at the Department for Industrial Furnaces
The official handover to the new professor of the Department for Industrial Furnaces and Heat Engineering took place in a moving ceremony on Friday. Herbert Pfeifer, the long-standing head of the department, symbolically handed over the key to the department building and with it the responsibility to his successor Christian Wuppermann. The event in the SuperC of RWTH Aachen University was a…
TWINGHY general assembly project meeting in Aachen
The General Assembly (GA) meeting of the TWINGHY project — Digital TWINs for Green HYdrogen transition in steel industry — took place in Aachen on 21 and 22 February 2024. The aim of the project is to convert the reheating furnace in the Celsa 3 steelworks to partial operation with hydrogen. The consortium from industry and science came together at the RWTH’s Institute of Mineral Engineering…
Successful measurement campaign at Celsa’s Castellbisbal site
In the week from 12th to 16th February 2024, our colleagues Elsa Busson and Johannes Losacker visited the reheating furnace at the Celsa 3 steelworks to carry out measurements as part of the TWINGHY project — Digital TWINs for Green HYdrogen transition in steel industry. In November 2023, colleagues from the project partners Celsa, Fives, the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and the…