Integrated Reaction and Separation Operations

Professor Dr.-Ing. Schmidt-Traub studied Chemical Engineering, first in Braunschweig then in Berlin, where he got his PhD and habilitation from the Technical University. He worked in leading positions in engineering for Krupp Koppers for 15 years. From 1989 to 2005 he held the chair of Plant Design at the University of Dortmund. He chaired Dechema as well as GVC working groups like "Computer Applications in Chemical Engineering", "Process and Plant Design" and "Computer-aided Plant Engineering". He was speaker of the Research Group " Integrated Reaction and Separation Operations" by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). His main research activities are preparative chromatography, down stream processing, process design and plant engineering. Professor Gorak graduated from Technical University of Lodz, Poland, where he also got his PhD before he joined Henkel kGaA in Dusseldorf as senior researcher. In 1992 he has got his "venia legendi" from RWTH Aachen and was appointed for Professor at Dortmund University. In 1996 he became Chair of Fluid Separations at University Essen and four years later at Dortmund University and is also Professor at the Technical University of Lodz, Poland. He is chairman of several German Working Parties on Fluid Separation and Process Simulation, editor for a leading Journal and has published about 150 referred papers and book chapters. His scientific interests are reactive and bioreactive separation processes, process intensification, computer aided process engineering.

• Synthesis of reactive separation processes.- Catalytic distillation.- Reactive gas adsorption.- Reactive liquid chromatography.- Reactive extraction.- Optimization and control of reactive chromatographic processes.- Controlling reactive distillation.- Multifunctionality at particle level — Studies for adsorptive catalysts.