Department Gasification Technology

Research interests:

• Rheological characterization of high viscous liquids and suspensions (slurries) 
• Handling of Slurry (pumping, stirring and sedimentation behavior); Applicability and optimization potential of measuring equipment 
• Atomization of suspensions and liquids under atmospheric and high pressure conditions 
• Design / Optimization of the burner nozzles for the atmospheric entrained flow gasifier REGA
• Development of burners for high pressure entrained flow gasifiers
   

Test facilities:

• Pressurized Atomization Test Rig - PAT
• Atmospheric Spray Test Rig – ATMO
   

Staff:

• Dr.-Ing. Tobias Jakobs
• M.Sc. Simon Wachter

Cooperations:

• HVIGasTech
• EBI-vbt: Feichi Zhang
• ITS:      Geoffroy Chaussonnet

Completed PhD:

• A. Sänger
  Zerstäubung hochviskoser Fluide bei variierendem Systemdruck - Grundlagenforschung zur Hochdruck-Flugstromvergasung
  Dissertation, KIT, https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000087397
   
• T. Jakobs
  Einfluss des Reaktordrucks auf die Spraygüte außenmischender Zweistoffdüsen
  Dissertation, KIT, 2015, DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000048862
   

Awards:

2019 Nachwuchspreis der ProcessNet-Fachgruppe "Hochtemperaturtechnik" für die Dissertation: Zerstäubung hochviskoser Fluide bei variierendem Systemdruck - Grundlagenforschung zur Hochdruck-Flugstromvergasung, Dr.-Ing. Alexander Sänger

2017 ASME Turbo Expo, Best Paper Award in the Section Coal, Biomas & Alternative Fuels - Influence of Nozzle Design Upon the Primary Jet Breakup of High-Viscosity Fuels for Entrained Flow Gasification
 

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