This time there were 31 participants, more every year. Again it was a great class, thank you all (especially the tutors) for your motivation and hard work and the dinner invitation! It was an honor to teach you. Topics of students presentations this time were: Temperature and pressure dependence of processes and equilibria. Derive an … Continue reading
A Comprehensive Assessment of COSMO-SAC Models for Predictions of Fluid Phase Equilibria Robin Fingerhuta, Wei-Lin Chenb, Andre Schedemannc, Wilfried Cordesc, Jürgen Rareyc, d, Chieh-Ming Hsiehe, Jadran Vrabeca, * and Shiang-Tai Linb, * a Thermodynamics and Energy Technology, University of Paderborn, 33098 Paderborn, Germany, *E-Mail: jadran.vrabec@upb.de, b Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, 10617 Taipei … Continue reading
Usually my CHEMCAD Courses are two days in length, this was double time 🙂 The 8 participants from Asia and Europe were great. There were tons of questions, discussions and very nice restaurant visits in the evening: I very much thank the CTO of the company for this course and hope I could benefit their … Continue reading
This course started 1997 in German language and takes place twice a year in German and English language since 2005. This time again there was a very interested group of participants, who seemed to enjoy the 3 resp. 4 days a lot. For the first time, the 4th day was lectured by Dr. Christian Möllmann … Continue reading
I am proud to say I am now part of the faculty at ChEPS-KMUTT. For a long time I was aware of the impressive activities of the director Dr. Hong-Ming Ku (see picture below). The Chemical Engineering Practice School (ChEPS) at KMUTT was implemented in cooperation with MIT and sponsoring by public and industry and … Continue reading
This years course “Chemical Process Development” was very full and successful. 27 participants completed 12 design projects. For the first time I gave this course in the English language and had a first foreign student from the group of Prof. Apichat (SUT, Nakhon Ratchasima). After their design projects, 4 students continued the topic abroad, 2 in … Continue reading
Measurement, correlation and prediction of isothermal vapor–liquid equilibria of different systems containing vegetable oils PatrÃcia C. Belting, Jürgen Gmehling, Rainer Bölts, Jürgen Rarey, Roberta Ceriani, Osvaldo Chiavone-Filho, Antonio J.A. Meirelles ABSTRACT: Thermodynamic properties, in particular vapor–liquid equilibrium (VLE) data, are required for the development of reliable predictive models for systems with fatty compounds. Isothermal VLE … Continue reading
I always felt that my 2 or 3 day courses provide a good start for chemical thermodynamics and physical properties in process simulation. Once the participants start to apply the knowledge, they definitely would benefit from further coaching, which is not available in the current course structure. Now the first large company entered into a … Continue reading
From Feb. 16 – 20 and March 2 – 20 I taught a full day course on “Chemical Process Development” to 26 very motivated and hard working students. The course included: Introduction, Overview Aspen Plus Intro Course Dortmund Data Bank (DDB) and DDB Software Package Chemical Thermodynamics for Process Simulation (Mostly in GVT-Course) Separation Process … Continue reading
This was good news, our publication has been accepted by Chemical Reviews, a very prestigious journal 🙂 “Saturation vapor pressures and transition enthalpies of low-volatility organic molecules of atmospheric relevance: from dicarboxylic acids to complex mixtures” Bilde, Merete; Barsanti, Kelley; Booth, Alastair; Cappa, Christopher; Donahue, Neil; Emanuelsson, Eva; McFiggans, Gordon; Krieger, Ulrich; Marcolli, Claudia; Topping, David; Ziemann, … Continue reading
