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10th ExHFT on Rhodes
The 10th Conference on Experimental Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics (ExHFT) took place on the Greek island of Rhodes from 26 to 30 August 2024. The Institute of Industrial Furnace and Heat Engineering was represented there with three contributions. At the conference, scientists and engineers from all over the world presented their latest research results. Experimental results…
Measurement at Kanthal as part of the CONDRA research project
On 17 July 2024, our colleague Julius Wilker accompanied his colleague Fabian Scheck to a temperature and pressure measurement. This measurement was carried out as part of Fabian Scheck’s CONDRA research project and took place at Kanthal in Mörfelden-Walldorf, near Frankfurt. Julius Wilker, who recently started his own research project EnabEL at the IOB, took the opportunity to gain practical…
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…