Name	Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Arlt
E-Mail
Phone	+49 (09131) 85 - 28596/ 27210
Fax	+49 (09131) 85 - 27441
Room	T 3.66
Adress	Lehrstuhl für Thermische Verfahrenstechnik der Universität Erlangen Nürnberg Egerlandstr.3 D - 91058 Erlangen
	Curriculum vitae

Main research area

Fundamentals of molecular thermodynamics

• Development of equations-of-state
• Development and application of a-priori methods for the predicition of thermophysical data
• Application of Ionic Liquids
• Measurement of thermophysical properties

Thermodynamics of macromolecules

• Phase equilibria of technical macromolecules/polymers
• Phase equilibria of macromolecules steming from biological and pharmaceutical applications

Thermodynamics and mass transfer in pharmaceutics

• Development of carriers
• Instant release of pharmaceuticals
• Micellar systems

Chemical engineering

• Development of the technical chromatography (batch, SMB)
• Impact-free measurement of process parameters in distillation and chromatography (tomography)
• Static and dynamic simulation
• Processes (extraction, adsorption, precipitation) with dense or supercritical gases

Environment

• CO₂ removal: development of scrubbing agents for present power plants
• CO₂ storage in the underground: thermodynamics
• Simulation of the process chain
• Prediction of the octanol-water partition

Honors of Prof. Wolfgang Arlt

• chairman of the DECHEMA-working party „Ingenieurdaten“ [engineering data] (1994-1998)
• chairman of the DECHEMA-working party „Flüssig-Adsorption“ [liquid adsorption] (1996-1998)
• chairman of the VDI-GVC working party „Thermische Zerlegung von Gas- und Flüssigkeitsgemischen“ [thermal separation processes] (1998-2004)
• vice-chairman of the DECHEMA-working party „Adsorption“ (1998-2004)
• German representative in the European Federation of Chemical Engineers (1995-)
• member of the VDI-GVC working party Thermodynamik [thermodynamics] (1993-)
• member of  AIChE (1995-)
• vice-chairman of the board of  Fach-Informations-Zentrums Chemie, Berlin (1996-)
• referee of  EU-Program Brite-Euram (1997-)
• referee of AiF [scientific agency of small enterprises], Germany
• referee of BUND [scientific agency of environmental aspects], Osnabrueck, Germany
• curator of "Chemie-Ingenieur-Technik"
• Editor of the international journal „Fluid Phase Equilibria“
• member of  „Breitnauer Kreises“ (a BASF-operated circle of selected professors)
• referee of DFG (German National Science Foundation) (2000-)




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