TU Bergakademie Freiberg

The Chair of Gas- and Heat Technology is part of the Department for Thermal Engineering within the Faculty of Mechanical and Process Engineering of the Technical University of Freiberg. The fields of expertise are combustion and fluid mechanics, design of thermal process facilities, high temperature materials and their chemical and thermal stability, thermal process engineering, energy engineering, gas technologies, heat and mass transfer in porous media, design of fuel cell systems and fuel processors. The chair staff numbers about 30 researchers and 8 technicians. The research activities include both fundamental research and applied development with experimental and numerical methods.

The chair has an extensive infrastructure for experimental and numerical studies at its disposal including industrial furnace pilot plants, burner test rigs, IR-cameras, pyrometers, mass spectrometers, accurate gas analyzers, Laser diagnostics (i.e. LDV, PDA, PIV and PLIF), commercial and own developed CFD packages and the necessary computing cluster.

The following senior scientists will be involved in the co-ordination as well as in the research and development work to be performed by TUBAF:

Prof. Dr.-Ing. D. Trimis is going to co-ordinate the CEREXPRo project. He graduated in 1990 from the Technical University of Athens in Mechanical Engineering and received his PhD from the University of Erlangen in 1995 in the subject of combustion in inert porous media. He founded and was the head of the major research division Experimental Fluid Mechanics and Combustion in the institute of Fluid Mechanics at the University of  Erlangen until the year 2006 when he accepted an appointment as a full professor for Gas- and Heat Technology at the Technical University of Freiberg. He was awarded (jointly with Prof. F. Durst) with the 1998 Italgas-Prize for Research and Technological Innovation for the project “ Porous Medium Combustion Technology”. He was also awarded in 2001 (jointly with Dr. Lucka from OWI-Aachen) with the Wilhelm-Jost-Medal from the German Section of the Combustion Institute for the project: “Porous burner for liquid fuels based on porous media combustion and cool flame vaporization”. He is experienced with research work in the fields of numerical and experimental fluid mechanics, heat transfer, combustion, fuel cell and reforming technologies. In the last years he supervised several projects dealing with the development of burners for various purposes like domestic heating systems, dryers, post combustors, heat exchangers, chemical reactors, fuel cell system BoP components etc. He has a good experience in co-ordinating collaborative projects (e.g. overall co-ordinator of FP6-INCO-FlexHEAT, scientific co-ordinator of FP6-IP-FlameSOFC, co-ordinator of several national collaborative projects etc.). He has over 60 journal publications and 8 patents.

Dr.-Ing. V. Uhlig graduated in 1989 and received his PhD in 2000 both from the Technical University of Freiberg. From 2000 till 2007 he worked as Head of the Group of Development and Design in a SME manufacturing industrial furnaces. Since April 2007 he is heading the group of furnace technology at the chair of Gas- and Heat Technology at TU Freiberg. He is experienced in design and construction of high temperature equipment.