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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…
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…