Professor Kurt Wagemann on future changes of chemical engineering, biotechnology, the DECHEMA, and the best parts of his job

Interview with Kurt Wagemann – Executive Director of DECHEMA

Carbon-Chitosan Complex Removes Heavy Metal
Novel activated carbon-chitosan complex removes Pb2+ and Cd2+ from industrial wastewaters

DECHEMA Student Prizes Awarded
The DECHEMA Student Prizes recognize graduates with outstanding results that completed their studies in a particular short time

DECHEMA Awards Pühler and Weitkamp
Alfred Pühler and Jens Weitkamp have been awarded Honorary Memberships of the DECHEMA

Optimization of Sugar Recovery from Switchgrass
Extrusion combined with other pretreatment methods resulted in a combined sugar recovery of 88 %

Performance of a Multiphase Baffle-Stirred Reactor
Turbulent gas-liquid flow field in an industrial 100-m3 stirred tank was calculated by using CFD

Flow Field Analysis in Slim Reactors
Evaluation of mixing and dispersion efficiency for liquid-liquid systems of single- and multiple-stage impellers leads to optimum configuration

Particle Residence Times
Particle residence times were experimentally investigated in fluidized bed granulation equipments

Understanding Spraying Nozzles
Numerical simulation of different kinds of spraying nozzles — first step to improve spray correlations, especially for non-Newtonian liquids

2010 ISI Journal Impact Factors
Excellent results for Wiley's and Wiley-VCH's 2010 ISI Impact Factors, e.g. new record IF for Angewandte Chemie