Wolfgang Arlt is a German

thermodynamicist In thermodynamics, a thermodynamicist is someone who studies thermodynamic processes and phenomena, i.e. the physics that deal with mechanical action and relations of heat. Among the well-known number of famous thermodynamicists, include Sadi Ca ...

. Until his retirement in 2018, he was

professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an Academy, academic rank at university, universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a "person who pr ...

at the TU Berlin and since 2004 at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.

Life

After studying chemistry with a focus on

physical chemistry Physical chemistry is the study of macroscopic and microscopic phenomena in chemical systems in terms of the principles, practices, and concepts of physics such as motion, energy, force, time, thermodynamics, quantum chemistry, statistical mecha ...

at the University of Dortmund, he became a research assistant for Ulfert Onken at the same university in 1976 in the field of

chemical engineering Chemical engineering is an engineering field which deals with the study of operation and design of chemical plants as well as methods of improving production. Chemical engineers develop economical commercial processes to convert raw materials int ...

. During his doctorate, he helped set up the

Dortmund Data Bank The Dortmund Data Bank (short DDB) is a factual data bank for thermodynamic and thermophysical data. Its main usage is the data supply for process simulation where experimental data are the basis for the design, analysis, synthesis, and optimizati ...

. After completing his doctorate as Dr.-Ing. In 1981 he moved to Bayer, where he worked on thermal separation processes. In 1987 he switched to plastics research in-house and worked in a leading position in setting up a production facility for a thermoplastic in Antwerp . After completing this work, he returned to the process engineering department in Leverkusen. In 1992 he accepted a position as professor for thermodynamics and thermal process engineering at Technische Universität Berlin . During this time he developed, among other things, a recycling process for mixed thermoplastics (e.g. packaging material). He donated part of the proceeds of the corresponding patent in favor of the Philotherm Prize founded by Prof. Knapp, which honors students for special achievements in the subject of thermodynamics. In 2004 he moved to the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, where he has held the chair for thermal process engineering ever since . In 2009 he founded the Siegfried Peter Prize for high pressure technology, which is usually awarded every two years for outstanding research in the field of high pressure process engineering. From 2011 to the beginning of 2017 he was the spokesman for the scientific management of the , which he initiated. In 2018 he received the for his groundbreaking developments in fluid process engineering. Together with

Peter Wasserscheid Peter Wasserscheid (born 23 October 1970, in Würzburg) is a German chemist and professor for chemical reaction engineering at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Together with Matthias Beller he won the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2006. ...

and Daniel Teichmann, he was nominated for the

German Future Prize The German Future Prize award is considered one of the most prestigious conferred for science and innovation Innovation is the practical implementation of ideas that result in the introduction of new goods or services or improvement in offer ...

2018 for his work on the development of

liquid organic hydrogen carriers Liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHC) are organic compounds that can absorb and release hydrogen through chemical reactions. LOHCs can therefore be used as storage media for hydrogen. In principle, every unsaturated compound (organic molecules ...

(LOHC).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Arlt, Wolfgang German chemical engineers Scientists from Dortmund Living people Thermodynamicists Academic staff of Technische Universität Berlin Process engineering Academic staff of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Plastics Year of birth missing (living people)