Andrzej Górak (born February 15, 1951, in

Andrychów Andrychów () is the largest town in Wadowice County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland. The town is located in the Little Beskids, in the historical region of Lesser Poland, on the river Wieprzówka. It has been situated in the Lesser Poland Vo ...

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

) is a

Polish Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Polish people, people from Poland or of Polish descent * Polish chicken * Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin ...

process engineer and the Head of Laboratory of Fluid Separations at the Department of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering at the

TU Dortmund University TU Dortmund University () is a technical university in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany with over 35,000 students, and over 6,000 staff including 300 professors, offering around 80 Bachelor's and master's degree programs. It is situate ...

Career

Professor Andrzej Górak studied

chemistry Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a physical science within the natural sciences that studies the chemical elements that make up matter and chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules a ...

at the Technical University of Lodz in Poland. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Faculty of Process Engineering in 1979. His thesis treated

continuous distillation Continuous distillation, a form of distillation, is an ongoing separation in which a mixture is continuously (without interruption) fed into the process and separated fractions are removed continuously as output streams. Distillation is the se ...

of multi-component mixtures. He worked at the same faculty as senior researcher until 1988. The following four years he spent as a researcher at

Henkel Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, commonly known as Henkel, is a German multinational chemical and consumer goods company headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany. Founded in 1876, the DAX company is organized into two globally operating business units (Cons ...

KGaA in Düsseldorf. Having completed his “habilitation” at

RWTH Aachen RWTH Aachen University (), in German ''Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen'', is a German public research university located in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With more than 47,000 students enrolled in 144 study prog ...

in 1989 and at Technical University Warsaw in 1990, Andrzej Górak became professor at the chair of fluid separation processes at

in 1992. In 1996 he took over the chair of fluid separation processes at the

University of Essen The University of Duisburg-Essen () is a public research university in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. In the 2019 ''Times Higher Education World University Rankings'', the university was awarded 194th place in the world. It was originally ...

. Four years later, in 2000, he returned to

to become the head of Laboratory of Fluid Separations, former chair of fluid separation processes. Apart from this, he has been full professor at the Technical University of Lodz since 2003. Since 2009 he has been decan of the Faculty of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering until the University Council of

elected him as

prorector Academic rank (also scientific rank) is the rank of a scientist or teacher in a college, high school, university or research establishment. The academic ranks indicate relative importance and power of individuals in academia. The academic ran ...

for research in April 2011. He kept this position until January 2014. Between 2010 and 2012 he was member of Council of National Centre for Research and Development, appointed by Polish minister of science. The scientific activities of professor Andrzej Górak are focused on the computer aided simulation and experimental validation of integrated reaction and separation processes, like

reactive distillation Reactive distillation is a process where the chemical reactor is also the still. Separation of the product from the reaction mixture does not need a separate distillation step which saves energy (for heating) and materials. This technique can be us ...

and reactive absorption as well as on the analysis of hybrid separation processes. Professor Górak is an editor of the journal "Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification“. In 2010 he was awarded the

Federal Cross of Merit The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (, or , BVO) is the highest state decoration, federal decoration of the Federal Republic of Germany. It may be awarded for any field of endeavor. It was created by the first List of president ...

on ribbon (Verdienstkreuz am Bande) of the Federal Republic of Germany on 29 June 2010 for his contributions to international understanding between Poland and Germany. In 2013 President of Republic Poland awarded him with Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland. In 2014 he was also awarded by DECHEMA and

Verein Deutscher Ingenieure Verein Deutscher Ingenieure (VDI) (English: Association of German Engineers) is an organization of about 135,000 engineers and natural scientists. More than 12,000 honorary experts process the latest technical findings each year to promote the te ...

with Kirschbaum-Medaille for his outstanding achievements in fluid separations. He is also editor of the series of three books on distillation (2014), which are the most comprehensive review on this technology ever published. In 2018 professor Górak received the

North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia or North-Rhine/Westphalia, commonly shortened to NRW, is a States of Germany, state () in Old states of Germany, Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhabitants, it is the List of German states by population, most ...

order of merit in recognition of his social commitment.

Research Overview

''Conventional Fluid Separations'' *Distillation, absorption and extraction *Mass and heat transfer in multi-component systems *Experimental determination of model parameters *Rigorous modelling and simulation (continuous and batch) ''Reactive Separations'' *Reactive distillation, absorption and extraction *Modelling, simulation and experimental investigation *Process design and -optimization ''Membrane Separations'' *Pervaporation and vapour permeation *Nanofiltration and membrane reactors *Detailed modelling and simulation *Experimental determination of model parameters ''Hybrid Separations'' *Combination of conventional fluid separations *Membrane-assisted separation processes *Modelling, simulation, optimisation and experimental investigation ''Process Intensification'' *Using reactive and hybrid separations *Combining membranes with reactive separations *Investigation of rotating packed bed separations ''Bioseparations'' *Application of ionic liquids for bioextraction *Bioalcohol separation by organophilic membranes *Optimisation of downstream processing

Honours and awards

* 2018:

Order of Merit of North Rhine-Westphalia The Order of Merit of North Rhine-Westphalia () is a civil Order (honour), order of merit, of the Germany, German States of Germany, State of North Rhine-Westphalia. The Order of Merit of North Rhine-Westphalia was founded on 11 March 1986. It is ...

*2016: Member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering *2014: Emil Kirschbaum-Medal * 2013: "Kavalierskreuz" of the order of merit of the Republic of Poland for his commitment for the German-Polish-Corporation * 2012: "Second Best project award 2012" for the EU project AIMs (Advanced Interactive Materials by Design) * 2010:

Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (, or , BVO) is the highest state decoration, federal decoration of the Federal Republic of Germany. It may be awarded for any field of endeavor. It was created by the first List of president ...

for great service to the international understanding among Poland and Germany * 1992: "Friedrich-Wilhelm-Award" for the habilitation treatise at the RWTH Aachen * 1983: Awarded by the scientific secretary of the Polish Academy of Science for technology transfer * 1979: Award for doctoral thesis * 1974: Award for the best practice-oriented diploma thesis in Poland

Book chapters

* A. Górak, H. Schoenmakers: ''Distillation: Operation and applications'', Academic Press, 2014 * A. Górak, Z. Olujic: ''Distillation: Equipment and processes'', Academic Press, 2014 * A. Górak, E. Sorensen: ''Distillation: Fundamentals and principles'', Academic Press, 2014 * 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: E. Y. 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 Verfahrenstechnik. Grundlagen, Methodik, Technik, Praxis''. (Ed. R. Goedecke), Willey-VCH, Weinheim, 2006 * E. Y. Kenig, A. Górak: ''Reactive Absorption''. In: ''Integrated Chemical Processes'' . (Eds. K. Sundmacher, A. Kienle & A. Seidel-Morgenstern), Willey-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 thermischer Trennverfahren fluider Vielkomponentengemische''. In: ''Prozeßsimulation''. (Ed. H. Schuler), Verlag Chemie, Mannheim, 1995

Publications and patents

Górak has well over 450 publications and patents.Website of TU Dortmund University, ''Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andrzej Górak''
September 17th, 2012

Selected functions

*Since 2010: Regional coordinator, SFB TR63 ''InPrompt'', founded by DFG *Since 2000: European Federation of Chemical Engineering, Working Party on Distillation, Absorption and Extraction, Process Intensification *Since 1995: Editor of Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification *2005-2010: ProcessNet, member of executive board *2005-2010: ProcessNet, Section Fluid Dynamics and Separation Technology, chairman *2002-2008: ProcessNet, Technical Committee on Fluid Process Engineering, chairman *1999-2005: DECHEMA, Working Committee on Process Simulation und Synthesis, chairman

External links

Laboratory of Fluid Separation, TU Dortmund

Footnotes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gorak, Andrzej 1951 births Academic staff of the Technical University of Dortmund Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Knights of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland Polish chemists Living people 21st-century Polish engineers