Innovation Centre ● Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Cornelia Breitkopf
Theoretical material data determination and innovative storage materials
MANAGEMENT
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Cornelia Breitkopf
Dresden University of Technology
Institute for Energy Technology
Chair of Thermodynamics
Merkel Building, 106
Helmholtzstraße 14
01069 Dresden
| Telephone | +49 351 463-34711 |
| Fax | +49 351 463-37105 |
| cornelia.breitkopf@tu-dresden.de |
Short vita
Career and professional milestones:
- Director of the Institute for Energy Technology
- Since 08/2010 Holder of the Chair of Technical Thermodynamics
- Senior scientist at TUM in the field of heterogeneous catalysis
- Professor of Chemical Reaction Engineering in Leipzig and Freiberg
- Habilitation in the field of technical chemistry at the University of Leipzig
- (work was part of a DFG priority programme entitled ‘Bridging gaps between ideal and real systems in catalysis’)
- Postdoctoral fellowship at Birkbeck College/University of London
- Doctorate in physical chemistry
- Studied chemistry at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (degree: Diplom-Chemikerin)
Other positions:
- Since April 2014 Coordinator for TUD within the EU project eRamp
Research and development
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Characterisation and modelling of diffusion and adsorption
processes in porous solids
o Research into diffusion and adsorption processes
o e.g. investigation of catalytic properties
o Application of transient methods for evaluating transport
and sorption parameters of gases -
Research and development of new storage media for thermal
energy storage, e.g. via
o Material testing for latent heat and cold storage
o Characterisation of working substance pairs for thermochemical storage -
Provision of thermophysical material data, E.g. in the form of
o Description of pure substances and mixtures using equations of state
o Development of predictive models for describing mixtures -
Computer-aided modelling and simulation
(e.g. with software such as COMSOL Multiphysics, ANSYS, COSMO-RS)
Expertise
- Thermodynamics
- Energy science
- Energy technology
- Catalysts
- Heterogeneous catalysis
- In particular: process thermodynamics, chemical and multiphase thermodynamics, reaction engineering and applied molecular thermodynamics
- Theoretical quantum chemical calculations
- Microkinetic modelling
- Modelling of silicon wafer structures
Reference projects
- Creation and simulation of complex cooler models for pipe constructions and monopiles for a global technology group
- in the field of energy infrastructure
- Thermochemical investigation of the reaction of fuel substances for a multinational aerospace group
- Measurement of the thermal conductivity of bedding material for underground power lines for a building materials tester
- Measurement of the heat capacity of a carrier fluid for optimised heat transfer in heating systems
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