Timo Merbach, M.Sc.

 


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Building O, Room 1.008

21073 Hamburg

Phone +49 40 42878 - 2031

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Biography

Timo Merbach studied Process Engineering at Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) from 2017 to 2020, where he completed his bachelor’s thesis on mass transfer in aerated stirred tank reactors at the Institute of Multiphase Flows (IMS). He continued his studies in the master’s programme in Process Engineering at TUHH, graduating at the end of 2023.

In 2024, Timo Merbach began working as a research assistant at the IMS, contributing to the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1615 SMART Reactors and focusing on projects B04 and C01, which are dedicated to tailored transport processes in multiphase reactors and the integration of components into adaptive geometries. He is currently assigned to the working group Reactive Bubbly Flows due to the available expertise concerning transport processes in reactive systems.

Research

How are the different timescales of fluid dynamic mixing, mass transfer and reaction kinetics impacting the yield and selectivity of competitive-consecutive gas-liquid reactions?

Applying measuring techniques as Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV), Particle Tracking Velocimetry (PTV), Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF) or imaging UV-VIS Spectroscopy to obtain information on velocity and concentration fields around reactive bubbles to understand the complex interplay of fluid dynamics, mass transfer and chemical reactions.

Education

Undergraduate courses

  • Grundlagen des Technischen Zeichnens (SoSe 2024)

  • Einführung in CAD (WiSe 2024/25)

  • Einführung in das Chemie- und Bioingenieurwesen (WiSe 2024/25)

Oral and Poster Presentations

Poster Presentations

  • Merbach,T.; Mockus, B.; Minamitani, K.; Kexel, F.; Schlüter, M.; Valluri, P.; Hayashi, K.; Tomiyama, A.:" Development of a Correlation for the Terminal Rising Velocity for 2D-Bubbles in Unconfined Domain", 11th International Conference on Multiphase Flows, Kobe, Japan, 2023, poster presentation

  • Kexel, F.; Bertram, S.; Merbach, T.; von Kameke, A.; Hoffmann, M.; Tomiyama, A.; Schlüter, M.: "Influence of Taylor Bubble Shapes on Wake Structures", 4th International Symposium on Multiscale Multiphase Process Engineering, Berlin, 2022, poster presentation

Publications

  • Matthes. S.; Merbach, T.; Fitschen, J.; Hoffmann, M.; Schlüter, M.; (2021). Influence of counterdiffusion effects on mass transfer coefficients in stirred tank reactors. Chemical Engineering Journal Advances. 8. [Abstract] [doi]