Technology Centre

Aims and objectives:

In the biological / process engineering Technical Centre of the Faculty of Medical & Life Sciences, both individual process engineering procedural steps and complete processes are carried out on a pilot plant scale.

Equipment:

• Plant for biological process engineering: bioreactors, various stirred tank reactors, multiple chamber fermenter, biogas reactors, incubators
• Plant for mechanical process engineering: membrane filtration, disk separator, homogenisor, agitator bead mill, mills,…
• Plant for thermal process engineering: rectification, adsorption, cristallization, extraction,…
• Plant for special areas of application: series of stirred tanks, torrefaction, photooxidation,…
• Process Analytics Lab (HPLC, laser diffraction particle analyzer, …)

Practicals, student work:

Students can individually plan, carry out and evaluate various process steps or parts of processes directly on the plant, and use analytical methods during the process.

Research:

In the Technical Centre various research projects are carried out:

• Thermal processing of lignocellulose for the production of bio-based chemicals, Prof. Dr.-Ing. R. Erpelding
• Virtual process engineering: development of training simulators for bio-refineries, Prof. Dr.-Ing. V.C. Hass
• prot P.S.I. new technologies for the development of process control strategies (funded by the BMBF), Prof. Dr.-Ing. V.C. Hass
• Methods and mathematical models for the development and scaling of an industrial process for the recycling of innovative, biologically-degradable fibres ( funded by BMWi ZIM-Projekt ZF 4029203CM7), Prof. Dr.-Ing. V.C. Hass
• mDoE toolbox – new mDoE software toolbox for the model-based optimization of biotechnology processes (funded by BMBF, FKZ: 031B0577C), Prof. Dr.-Ing. V.C. Hass
• Biogas production with multiple chamber fermenter, Prof. Dr.-Ing. H. Schneider
• UV-oxidative waste water cleaning and innovative lamp technologies, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Th. Oppenländer