Energy technology and heat transfer

The energy-efficient use of available resources is playing an increasingly important role in today's world. The reduced use of primary energies not only reduces operating costs, but also the emission of exhaust gases.

Students are taught the basics of thermodynamics, energy technology and process engineering in an interdisciplinary and clear manner. For this purpose, the laboratory is equipped with test rigs on which students can carry out their own experiments and evaluate the measurement results. The test rigs used are as follows:

• Steam power process with steam engine
• Condensation process experimental unit
• Evaporation process experimental unit
• Experimental unit for flow through particle layers
• Adsorption test facility
• Rectification experimental plant
• Hydrostatic test facility
• Heat exchanger test facility, with plate, tube bundle and double-tube heat exchangers, as well as a stirred tank
• Heat exchanger test facility for investigating profiled heat exchanger plates

Internal and external theses:

PC workstations in the laboratory are available to students for internal coursework and final theses. In particular, heat transfer and pressure losses are investigated using CFD simulations.

• Process engineering design of heat exchangers
• Carrying out series of measurements and evaluating the results
• Creating bionically inspired CAD models of profiled heat exchanger plates
• heat exchanger plates
• CFD simulation to investigate heat transfer and pressure loss
• pressure loss, also multiphase, combustion simulations
• Testing of prototypes in the plate heat exchanger test rig
• Optimization of the plate heat exchanger test rig with regard to
• measurement technology, thermal insulation, pipe routing