Scientific Staff

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Student Assistants

Unfortunately, there are no positions available for student assistants.

For more information you can ask Dr. Zetzl (zetzl(at)tu-harburg.de).

Theses                                 

At our institute student theses are available permanently. For current topics you can ask any of the staff or the group leaders of our three research fields Biorefinery, Nanoporous Materials and Molecular Methods for Separation Processes.

The following topics are currently available:

• Investigation of the mechanism of the CO2 induced gelation of biopolymers towards aerogel production

• Characterization and Modelling of Hydrogel Particle Production via JetCutting

• 2 step Aquasolv Pretreatment of Wheat Straw in a Biorefinery Cascade for the Production of Platform Chemicals

• Development an extraction concept for the recovery of hemicellulose from hydrothermally pretreated wheat straw in a biorefinery concept

• Optimization of a Countercurrent Hydraulic Wash Column for the Solvent Exchange of Porous Materials

• Supercritical CO2 drying – Evaluation of System Dynamics for the Determination of Transient Kinetics

• Reliability of thermodynamic data from single ions: Evaluation and possibility for refinement of the COSMO-RS model

• Shrinkage of biopolymer-based gels during solvent exchange: Experimental investigation and modeling

• Project work (Englisch): Production of Lignin- aerogels for insulation applications

• Master Thesis: Development of lignin thin films via spray coating

• Master Thesis: Adsorption of organic components from fluid mixtures on functionalized mesoporous materials

• Bachelor Thesis: Investigation of the mechanism of the CO2 induced gelation of biopolymers towards aerogel production – step 5 gel network formation

• Project work: Adsorption of Organic Components from Fluid Mixtures on Mesoporous Materials: Modeling with Cellular Automata

• Project work: Production of lignin-alginate based aerogel particles using air extrusion system

• Bachelor Thesis / HiWi: In-situ investigation of the CO2 dissolution in biopolymer solutions towards CO2 induced gelation – impact of sample geometry on equilibrium and uptake kinetics

• Master Thesis: Introduction of concentration dependent mixture properties in the COSMO-RS-ES model for aqueous salt and aqueous ionic liquid systems

• Bachelor Thesis: Extension of the COSMO-RS-ES Model for temperature dependency in mixed solvent electrolyte systems