Andrzej Górak

Andrzej Górak (* February 15, 1951 in Wadowice, Poland) is a Polish process engineer and holder of the Chair of Fluid Process Engineering at the Department of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering at the Technical University of Dortmund.

Career

Andrzej Górak studied from 1968 at the Technical University of Lodz in Poland chemistry and graduated in 1973 as a graduate engineer ( Mgr inz. ) From. After subsequent promotion of the rectification of multicomponent mixtures in 1979 at the Institute of Process Engineering Selbiger University he worked there until 1988 as a senior engineer. This was followed by a four-year industrial career as a research associate at the company Henkel KGaA in Dusseldorf. 1991 Habilitation Andrzej Górak at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the RWTH Aachen and the following year was Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Dortmund. Since 1995 he has been editor of the journal Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification. In 1996 he took over the Chair of Thermal Process Engineering at the University of Essen. After four years, he returned in 2000 as a professor to Dortmund to the faculty of Bio-and Chemical Engineering. Since 2003 he is also professor at the Technical University of Łódź. After Prof. Górak was Bio - and Chemical Engineering since 2009 Dean of the Faculty, he was elected by the Senate of the Technical University of Dortmund Vice President for Research in April 2011.

Research priorities

Conventional separation methods

  • Rectification, absorption and extraction
  • Heat and mass transport in multicomponent systems
  • Experimental determination of model parameters
  • Rigorous modeling and simulation of continuous and discontinuous processes

Reactive separation processes

  • Reactive rectification, reactive absorption and reactive extraction
  • Modeling, simulation and experimental studies
  • Process design and optimization

Membrane processes

  • Pervaporation and vapor permeation
  • Nanofiltration and membrane reactors
  • Detailed modeling and simulation
  • Experimental determination of model parameters

Hybrid separation processes

  • Combination of conventional separation methods
  • Membrane -assisted separation processes
  • Modeling, simulation, optimization and experimental investigations

Process intensification

  • Study of reactive and hybrid separation processes
  • Combinations of membrane and reactive separation processes
  • Investigation of rotating mass transfer machines

Biological separation process

  • Aqueous two- phase extraction of biomolecules
  • Use of ionic liquids in the liquid-liquid extraction
  • Membrane adsorption of pharmaceuticals
  • Bio-alcohol - recovery by organophilic membranes
  • Optimization of the downstream -processing

Honors

  • 2013: Cavalier Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland for his commitment to the promotion of German - Polish cooperation
  • 2012: Award of the project AIMs ( Advanced Interactive Materials by Design ) with the Best Project Award 2012
  • 2010: Federal Cross of Merit for his contributions to the understanding between Poland and Germany
  • 1992: Friedrich Wilhelm Award for the habilitation thesis at the Rheinisch -Westfälische Technische Hochschule in Aachen
  • 1983: Award of the Scientific Secretary of the Polish Academy of Sciences for Technology Transfer
  • 1979: Award for the thesis
  • 1974: Award for the best, practical thesis Poland

Book Contributions

  • E.Y. Kenig, A. Górak: Modeling of Reactive Distillation. In: Modeling of Process Intensification. ( Ed. F. J. Keil ), Wiley -VCH, Weinheim, 2007
  • J. Richter, A. Górak: EY Kenig: Reactive distillation. In: Integrated Reaction and Separation Operations. (Eds. H. Schmidt- Traub & A. Górak ), Springer, Heidelberg, 2006
  • K. Hölemann, A. Górak: absorption. In: Fluid Process Engineering. Foundations, methodology, technique, practice. ( Ed. R. Goedecke ), Wiley -VCH, Weinheim, 2006
  • E. Y. Kenig, A. Górak: Reactive absorption. In: Integrated Chemical Processes. (Eds. K. Sundmacher, A. Kienle & A. Seidel -Morgenstern ), Wiley -VCH, Weinheim, 2005
  • E. Y. Kenig, A. Górak, H.-J. Bart: Reactive separations in fluid systems. In: Re - engineering the chemical processing plant. (Eds. A. Stankiewicz & J. Moulijn ), Marcel Dekker Inc., New York, 2003
  • A. Górak: Simulation of thermal separation process fluid multi-component mixtures. In: process simulation. ( Ed. H. Schuler ), Verlag Chemie, Mannheim, 1995

Publications and Patents

Over 450 publications and patents come from Andrzej Górak.

Other selected functions

  • Since 2010: Location spokesman SFB TR 63 of the DFG InPrompt
  • Since 2000: European Federation of Chemical Engineering Working Party on Distillation, Absorption and Extraction, Process Intensification
  • Since 1995: Editor of the journal Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification
  • 2005-2010: ProcessNet, Board Member
  • 2005-2010: ProcessNet, President of the Community Fluid Dynamics and Separation
  • 2002-2008: ProcessNet, technical committee Fluid Process Engineering, Chair
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