Research Awards
2023
Honorary Professor of the University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy, Sofia, Bulgaria
The University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy (Sofia, Bulgaria) has appointed Prof. Stefan Heinrich as honorary professor for his valuable contributions and many years of fruitful cooperation.
2022
Best poster and presentation award at the 9th World Congress on Particle Technology in Madrid
Poster award won by Vasyl Skorych for his poster "An open-source framework for dynamic flowsheet simulation of solids".
Presentation award won by Sophia Rothberg for her work on "Production of composites by a miniaturized bed spray granulation process".
Best poster and presentation award at annual meeting ProcessNet group "Computational Fluid Dynamics + Mischvorgänge + Agglomerations- und Schüttguttechnik" 2022
Poster award won by Falk Bunke for his poster Micro scale investigations of agglomeration and deagglomeration due to single collisions between wetted particles.
Presentation award won by Abdullah Sadeq for his work "Influence of water content on properties of biomass pellets: Reversible and irreversible changes".
Best poster award at 2022 ProcessNet "Mehrphasenströmungen" meeting
won by Phillipp Grohn from Technical University Kaiserslautern for the poster about our joint work "Beschreibung des dynamischen Kontakts von Partikeln mit Flüssigkeitsbrücken zur Simulation eines Coatingprozesses in Rotorwirbelschichten". The Project is funded by the German Research Foundation with the project numbers HE 4526/25–1 and AN 782/12-2.
2021
Johannes Möller Preis for Dr.-Ing. Swantje Pietsch
We congratulate Dr.-Ing. Swantje Pietsch for receiving the Johannes Möller Preis 2020 at the 2021 ProcessNet meeting "Agglomerations- und Schüttguttechnik“. Dr.-Ing. Swantje Pietsch received the award for her dissertation with the topic „Fluidization behavior and liquid injection in three-dimensional prismatic spouted beds“.
Best poster award at 2021 ProcessNet "Agglomeration und Schüttguttechnik" meeting
won by Paul Kieckhefen for his poster "Towards the Calibration of Coarse-Grained Discrete Element Models (DEM) of Wetted Particle Systems in the Pendular Liquid-Bridging Regime"
2020
Patrick Levin wins poster award at 10th ProcessNet Biotechnology meeting
We congratulate our colleague Patrick Levin for winning a poster award at the 10th ProcessNet-Jahrestagung der Biotechnologien for the poster "Influence of Structure on Freeze Drying Kinetics of Instant Coffee".
2019
Best Poster Award (1st place) in "The Glatt Best Poster Competition"
won by Phillip Grohn at the 9th International Granulation Workshop in Lausanne for his poster titled "Experimental Study and DEM Modeling of the contact behavior of cylindrical particles".
Best Poster Award (3rd place) in "The Glatt Best Poster Competition"
won by Eugen Diez at the 9th International Granulation Workshop in Lausanne for his poster titled "Dynamic behaviour of the spray granulation in continuously operated horizontal fluidised beds".
Powder Technology/Elsevier Poster Award (3rd place)
won by Sophia Rothberg at the PARTEC 2019 conference in Nuremberg for her poster titled "Fabrication of highly-filled composites using spouted bed spray coating".
Best Presentation Award at the 2019 ProcessNet FA "Agglomeration und Schüttguttechnik"
won by Dr.-Ing. Swantje Pietsch in Lausanne for her talk titled "In-line monitoring of coating quality and quantity in a three-dimensional prismatic spouted bed".
2018
Best Poster Award at the 2018 ProcessNet FA "Agglomeration und Schüttguttechnik"
won by Jana Kammerhofer, M.Sc. in Neuss for her poster titled "Dynamic liquid penetration into heterogeneous systems".
2017
Best Poster Award of the 10th World Congress of Chemical Engineering WCCE10
won by Eugen Diez, M.Sc. for his poster titled "Spray granulation in a multi-staged continuous fluidized bed: Influencing the product properties and particle transport in a horizontal fluidized bed".
Best Poster Award at the 8th International Granulation Workshop
won by Eduard Eichner, M.Sc. for his poster titled "Innovative Application of the Chemical Sciences to Granulation Technology for his poster about Fabrication of copper-polymer composites using the spouted bed granulation process".
2nd Best Poster Award at the 8th International Granulation Workshop
won by Monika Goslinska, M.Sc. for her poster titled "Usage of spouted bed technology to coat aerogel particles".
"Outstanding Contributions to Drying by Young Scientists" Award
won by Swantje Pietsch, M.Sc. at the 2nd Nordic-Baltic Drying Conference for her presentation and work on the "CFD-DEM Simulation of Particle Coating in a Three-Dimensional Prismatic Spouted Bed"
Best Presentation Award at the 2016 ProcessNet FA "Agglomerations- und Schüttguttechnik“
won by Britta Buch, M.Sc. for her talk on "Comparison of experimental and numerical investigation of wet particle-wall collisions".
2015
2015 DECHEMA Price
won by Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dr. h.c. Stefan Heinrich for his ground-breaking theoretical and experimental research in the field of particle formulation by fluidized bed spray granulation. More information.
Best Poster Award at the 7th International Granulation Workshop
won by Eduard Eichner, M.Sc. for his work on "Fabricating of hierarchically assembled ceramic-polymer composites using a spouted bed spray granulation process".
Best Poster Award at the 7th International Granulation Workshop
won by Anna Porowska, M.Sc. for her work on "Predicting the surface composition of a spray dried particle by modelling component reorganization in a drying drop".