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The IOB at the 1st ESCR Workshop in Vienna
Our colleagues Elsa Busson and Franziska Ott represented the IOB at the 1st Early Stage Combustion Researcher (ESCR) Workshop from September 12 to 13, 2024. The conference, organized at TU Wien, featured two poster sessions as well as presentations on the various career prospects for combustion researchers. After a welcome event, the first day of the conference began with interesting…
Machine Learning and Digital Twins Workshop in Thessaloniki
Our colleagues Alex Garcia-Vergara and Johannes Losacker took part in the “Training School on Machine Learning methods for reacting flows” and the subsequent workshop “Digital Twins for the Decarbonization of hard-to-abate industries” from 9th to 13th Septmeber 2024. As part of the CYPHER Cost Action, around 30 researchers from European universities and research institutions met in Thessaloniki,…
The IOB at the ESOMAT 2024
From August 26 to 30, 2024, the 13th European Symposium on Martensitic Transformations (ESOMAT) took place in Lecco, Italy. The conference focused on martensitic transformation in various metallic materials and provided a platform for the exchange of current research results. The Institute for Industrial Furnace Construction and Heat Engineering was represented there by our colleague Nico…
Open session at the Agri Idea Sprout 2024
On August 29, 2024, our colleague Christopher Wünning visited the Agri Idea Sprout 2024 in Lengerich near Münster. As part of the BioH2Ref project, which deals with the production of hydrogen from residues, an open session was held to introduce the production and use of hydrogen in agriculture. The event began with a welcome and pitch round in which each topic was briefly introduced. The open…
Kick-off meeting for ‘FlexHybHeat’ in Riesa
Our colleagues Felix Kaiser, Mitzi Lipardo, Farhad Haddadi and Moritz Eickhoff met on 10 September 2024 together with the Gesellschaft für industrielle Wärme, Energie- und Prozesstechnik in Riesa at our project partner ESF for the kick-off meeting for the BMWK joint project ‘FlexHybHeat’. The project aims to enable highly flexible and hybrid heating for billet reheating. In cooperation with the…
KEDi Roadshow in Oberhausen
Last week, our colleague Jan Menzler presented the IGF project ‘Coupled process chain modelling’ as part of the roadshow of the Kompetenzzentrum Energieeffizienz durch Digitalisierung (KEDi) in Oberhausen. The focus of the networking event was on efficiency potential in thermodynamic industrial processes. After a welcome coffee, the event began with a presentation of the KEDi by its overall…
Hydrogen Workshop at GWI in Essen
Our colleagues Nico Schmitz (lecturer), Moritz Diewald, Christopher Wünning, Johannes Losacker, Hannah Kaiser, Linda Giesler, Lukas Sankowski and Elsa Busson were at the Gas- und Wärmeinstitut (GWI) in Essen on 27 August 2024 to discuss various issues relating to the use of hydrogen in thermoprocessing plants as part of a hydrogen workshop. The workshop, organised by Projektträger Jülich and the…
Successful test campaign in the IOB’s electric arc furnace
Our colleagues Lilly Schulte and Carsten Gondorf, as part of the project DevH2forEAF — Developing and enabling H2 burner utilization to produce liquid steel in EAF — funded by the Research Fund for Coal and Steel (RFCS), carried out a test campaign at the department’s electric arc furnace (EAF) in Kohlscheid in the week from 15th to 19th July 2024. Following the burner tests in open environment…
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…