In urban areas, every centimeter is valuable. To renovate buildings, slim facade slim facade constructions are in demand. But exterior wall elements must not only but also have to meet other requirements, such as guaranteeing thermal and acoustic insulation and and sound insulation and be energy-efficient. In the EnOB_HLBhybrid project in cooperation with Prof. Smirnova, Dr. Zetzl and our PhD student Razan Altarabeen, research is being conducted into lightweight wood concrete, which could form the basis for such innovative facade elements. More information can be found here.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Irina Smirnova was officially re-elected for the office of Vice President Research at the Hamburg University of Technology. On the proposal of the TUHH President Andreas Timm-Giel, the members of the Academic Senate confirmed the head of the Institute of Thermal Process Engineering for a further three years. Irina Smirnova will thus begin her second term on September 1, 2023. More information can be found here.

The TandeWeixian-Fernweh team from Tsinghua University in Beijing has recently visited the TUHH during their trip through Europe.

Our PhD student Philip Sidney Pein has won the 2nd place oral presentation award on the conference "3rd International Conference on Aerogels for Biomedical and Environmental Applications" for his talk about "Biopolymer-derived carbon aerogels as catalyst support for hydrogen evolution reaction". Congratulations!

We gladly announce our participation in the recently granted Collaborative Research Center "Smart Reactors"! Prof. Irina Smirnova will be Vice-Spokesperson of the CRC and is responsible for two of the twenty projects (A01 & B01). More information about the CRC “Smart Reactors” can be found here. The long-term research goal of the twelve-year CRC concept is to create the scientific basis for a new generation of autonomous reactors for chemical, biochemical and mechanical transformation processes that can operate independently through self-adaptation and convert changing renewable raw materials into valuable products in the most sustainable way considering the fluctuations of the feed quality. The first project TVT is involved in A01 in close collaboration with our partners from University of Hamburg: Stimuli-responsive polymers for self-regulating reactors: From basic phenomena to reactor design. This project focuses on the development of stimuli-responsive materials and their integration in tailored SMART 3D-printed chemical reactors (at lab and, prospectively, pilot-scale) with special focus on inherent control and actuation. Our second project is in close collaboration with our Mercator fellow Prof. Walter Chapman and our Junior-Prof. Pavel Gurikov (B01): Materials for SMART reactors: Thermodynamic and kinetic modelling of responsive materials. This project focuses on the development of molecular thermodynamic and kinetic models describing the behavior of stimuli-responsive materials to provide comprehensive insights for the experimental studies in the CRC and set the groundwork for establishing a digital twin simulator of chemical and biochemical processes.

On Friday, 30.06.2023 we would like to revive old contacts as well as establish new ones. For this reason, we are organizing a meeting of former and current employees of our institute once again after 5 years (including a Corona break !). We are very much looking forward to the reunion! Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

The "NanoHybrids" project won the Ralf Dahrendorf Prize 2021 for its successful research collaboration at the European level and high-profile science communication. Within the project students in various grades participate in workshops on hydrogel formation and supercritical drying at the Institute of Thermal Process Engineering at Hamburg University of Technology. The project KinderForscher an der TUHH (KIFO) and aerogel researchers at the Institute of Thermal Process Engineering developed a digital learning platform to explain the aerogel manufacturing process in a way everyone can understand.

Jan Philipp Bittner has won the poster award at the Research Center Biobased Processes and Reactor Technologies Workshop 2023! His poster entitled "Uncovering the Solvent Impact on Alcohol Dehydrogenase Behavior through Molecular Dynamics Simulations" convinced the jury in a selection from 66 contributions. Congratulations!

“Be brave!” was the theme of Monday night @ernstdeutschtheater 💪 The latest show of the talk event series “Wahnsinn trifft Methode” dealt with all things courage - whether it be at university, in everday life, in a war zone or in the online dating world.⁠ ⁠ In attendence was our vice president Prof. Dr. Irina Smirnova - who explained why all researchers are brave - as well as singer @annadepenbuschmusik , anxiety and OCD expert Prof. Dr. Anja Riesel, consulting psychologist @parship @piakabitzsch and war reporter Jan Jessen. The night was hosted by @julia_niharika_sen and Prof. Dr. Dieter Lenzen. 🎤⁠