Research topics
Contact: Dr.-Ing. Stefan Vodegel
The Department of Thermal Process Technology focuses on research and development activities in the following areas:
- Treatment of household, commercial and production waste as well as sewage sludge.
- Pyrolysis in the rotary kiln
- Gasification in the circulating fluidized bed
- Incineration on the grate
- New products and improvement of industrial processes
- Process development from initial laboratory-scale ideas
- Improvement of yields
- Production of synthesis gas by gasification
- Gas purification
- Thermal afterburning and regenerative thermal oxidation
- Dry sorption
- Washing processes
- Emission measurements and suggestions for emission minimization
- Mobile measuring equipment for trace elements and main components
- Measurements at industrial plants, power plants and waste incineration plants