Department Gasification Technology

• Scientifc Assistant in working group Gasification

Motivation:

My vision is that we become climate neural in Germany, Europa and worldwide until 2045. Therefore, I have been investigating the production of synthesis gas from biomass and plastic and tire wastes in entrained flow gasifiers, the substitution of natural gas by hydrogen in power plants, and the impact of deterioration on the performance of aero engines.

My research interests also include vaporisation of multi-component mixtures, gas-phase reactions under gasification conditions, decomposition and heterogeneous conversion of both liquid and solid fuels, steady and unsteady slagging behaviour, and thermal radiation of gas and particles under high-temperature and high-pressure conditions.

In these research fields, my focus is on method and software development for CFD simulations, material and energy balancing, and experimental and numerical modelling based on laboratory- and pilot-scale experiments or measurements and on high-fidelity simulations.

Job offers:

Student theses and jobs are regularly offered at EBI-ceb https://ceb.ebi.kit.edu/291.php respectively at ITC https://www.itc.kit.edu/780.php and can focus on numerical modelling and simulation of entrained flow gasification, vaporisation of liquid multi-component mixtures, conversion of liquid and solid fuels, steady and unsteady slagging behaviour or thermal radiation of gas and particles. Desired skills are a structured, meticulous, and independent work style and knowledge in fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, heat transfer, numerics or process engineering. Proficiencies in Linux, OpenFOAM, ANSYS Fluent, Python, Matlab, C or C++ are advantageous. The tasks are assigned taking into account your interests and prior knowledge.
 

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