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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…
New Professor for the Department
The Department for Industrial Furnaces and Heat Engineering is pleased to announce that Christian Wuppermann has today taken up his position as Head of Department and holder of the Chair of Sustainable Thermal Process Technology. During a one-month transition phase, he will lead the Institute together with Herbert Pfeifer, who has successfully managed the Institute to date. The seamless…
REVaMP final meeting in Brussels
On February 14, the review meeting and final meeting for our REVaMP project took place in Brussels. Together with the 14 project partners, the IOB, represented by Felix Kaiser and Tim Reichel, presented the most important results and answered questions from the reviewers. The thematic background to the project: The European manufacturing industry consumes large amounts of energy and resources…
Kick-off “Accompanying research for energy efficiency in industry and commerce 2.0”
On 11 January 2024, the kick-off meeting for the joint project “Accompanying research for energy efficiency in industry and commerce 2.0” took place at Projektträger Jülich (PTJ). The IOB was represented there by Dominik Büschgens, Christian Schwotzer and Felix Kaiser. Energy and resource efficiency make important contributions to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and curbing the rising trend in…
HyInHeat project meeting in the Basque city of Donostia-San Sebastián
The General Assembly Meeting of the European HyInHeat project took place in Donostia-San Sebastián on 7 and 8 November 2023. Together with the broad-based consortium from industry and science, the Department for Industrial Furnaces and Heat Engineering (IOB) is working on the decarbonization of the steel and aluminium industry through the use of hydrogen. For the first time since the kick-off…
Participation in the TOTeM50 in Piacenza
The 50th Topic Oriented Technical Meeting (TOTeM) of the International Flame Research Foundation (IFRF) took place in Piacenza, Italy, on December 5. & 6. 2023. This was organized by the Italian committee of the IFRF and held at the campus of the Polytechnic University of Milan in Piacenza (Politecnico di Milano). The IOB was represented by Fabian Scheck and Justin Hauch. The event offered a…
UBA study “CO2-neutral process heat generation” published
The UBA study highlights technical possibilities for CO2-neutral process heat generation in energy-intensive industrial processes and analyses how different framework conditions in the context of the energy transition affect the transformation of the plant fleet in Germany. The CO2-neutral process heat generation is a basic prerequisite for achieving Germany’s climate targets. A large proportion…
TWINGHY research project: The IOB at the walking beam furnace in Barcelona
On 22 and 23 November, our colleagues Nico Schmitz, Elsa Busson and Johannes Losacker visited the reheating furnace of project partner Celsa in Castellbisbal near Barcelona to prepare the upcoming measurement trials. As part of the EU-funded research project TWINGHY — Digital TWINs for Green HYdrogen transition in steel industry — the walking beam furnace for steel billets at the Celsa 3…
“Knorzel-Treffen” 2023 in Freiberg
On 15.11.2023, more than 20 doctoral students came together in Freiberg to take part in the “Knorzel-Treffen”. The Institute for Industrial Furnace Construction and Heat Engineering and the Chair of Gas and Thermal Engineering at TU Bergakademie Freiberg (GWA) joined forces back in 1993 to promote the exchange of knowledge and networking between young academics in what was then still a newly…