Teaching

Currently there are the following offers in teaching:

• Chemical reaction engineering (lecture and practical course)
• Micro process engineering (lecture and practical course)
• Process simulation and control (lecture with integrated PC exercises and interactive workshops)
• Pharmaceutical Chemistry (together with Prof. Dr. R. Dehn)
• In addition, there are ongoing offers for final theses, project work and elective practical courses.

The lecture Chemical Reaction Engineering covers ideal and real reactors for homogeneous and heterogeneous multiphase systems as well as chemical catalysis. The focus is on the concepts and the application of the concepts for the design and optimization of chemical reactors. The aim is to design chemical processes more sparingly in terms of energy and material resources and thus concretely more sustainably. The contents will also be trained by means of computational examples. The lecture is supplemented by a practical course in which a number of different reactor types are compared practically with regard to their residence time and turnover behavior using an example reaction.

Microprocess engineering employs miniaturized chemical devices with characteristic dimensions ranging from about 10 to 1000 µm and achieves significant improvements in mixing, heat transfer and flow characteristics compared to conventional devices. The lecture covers microfluidics, the main basic operations and manufacturing processes of microprocessing devices. It is complemented by a practical course in which small groups study and thereby illustrate the micro-mixing of micro-mixers produced with a 3D printer using a test reaction.

Process simulations are playing an increasingly important role in process development and technical implementation of chemical processes. Using the professional software ASPENPLUS (TM), the fundamentals and practical examples for the simulation and control of process engineering processes from individual basic operations to complex flow diagrams with the associated fundamentals of numerical mathematics are taught using interactive workshops.

The lecture is divided into a first, organic-chemical part (Prof. Dr. R. Dehn) and a second technical part (Prof. Dr. F. Schael). In the second part, basic operations of pharmaceutical technology, registration requirements and procedures for drugs and their production, methods for process evaluation as well as modern continuous pharmaceutical production are presented and deepened on the basis of current manufacturing processes.