Paid Master Thesis (Anton Paar)

Responsibilities:

• quality and taste of non-alcoholic beer
• sensors will be integrated into the world's leading beer analysis system
• enable precise measurements supporting quality control
• explore new measurement methods and evaluate their potential for characterizing non-alcoholic beers.

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Contact:       Dr. Werner Schlemmer 

PAID DIPLOMA / MASTER’S THESIS (RCPE)

Objective:

This thesis aims at assessing the needed framework towards recycling of APIs and consists of: 

• Analysis of the regulatory and legal framework for API recyling including the regulatory landscape of Austria (set by the AGES) and the EU (set by the EMA)
• Analysis and estimation of occurring APIs in waste streams, including the expected type and amount of materials together with industrial partners from our network
• Classification of these APIs according to their value, social importance as well as physicochemical properties to establish a recycling strategy
• Definition of target APIs with high potential to be successfully recycled and proposition of suitable process routes together with pharmeceutical engineering experts at RPCE

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Contact:       RCPE

Master’s Thesis: (AEE INTEC)

The content of the thesis includes:

• Investigation of suspension and flow behaviour of different biomass types
• Conducting extraction trials in the COFB with variable extraction conditions
• Upscaling of the reactor from DN25 to DN50
• Verification of the laboratory setup (precision, accuracy, reproducibility)
• Optimization of the system and process conditions
• Sampling and sample analysis (basic in-house analytics & external analysis)
• Data collection, evaluation, and interpretation
• Discussion of results in relation to the research hypothesis
• Assessment of the method’s suitability and its impact on further valorisation in the project

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Contact:       DIⁱⁿ Dr.ⁱⁿ Bettina Muster-Slawitsch

Two PhD-Positions

Your responsibilities are:

• Development of production processes for PGM-free CCS.
• Increase of CCS lifetime and performance through material development.
• Characterization and life time testing.
• Supervision of Master's and Bachelor's students.
• Publication of your research results

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Contact:         Dr. Maximilian Grandi

PAID DIPLOMA / MASTER’S THESIS (RCPE)

Objective:

The thesis aims to develop, test, and optimize a new processing platform for small-scale manufacturing of ocular implants. This technology should pose a fast and nearly waste-free approach, allowing formulation screening in the blink of an eye. Within this thesis, you will:

• Perform a literature review of current strategies for industrial-scale and small-scale production of ocular implants
• Work on formulation development, conduct thermal and rheological material characterization in the lab and analyze the generated data
• Optimize the implant production process
• Characterize the produced implants (determination of drug content, in-vitro drug release testing, etc.)

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Contact:       RCPE

PhD THESIS (IWT Graz)

Purpose and Background:

Biomass micro-CHP systems are currently almost exclusively implemented as fixed-bed gasifiers with gas engines, as they offer comparatively high electrical efficiencies. However, a significant drawback is their limited fuel flexibility compared to combustion-based systems. For this reason, Pewag Engineering is developing a combustion-based micro-CHP system specifically designed for cost-effective biogenic residual materials from agriculture and forestry.

As part of this dissertation at the Institute for Thermodynamics and Thermal Engineering (IWT), a step-by-step development and optimization of the technology will be carried out using CFD simulations with ANSYS Fluent and process simulations with IPSEpro, in parallel with experiments conducted by Pewag on a test facility.

The results of CFD simulations focusing on flow, combustion, pollutant formation, and thermal management of the boiler will be incorporated into the progressive development and optimization of the system, starting from a basic concept. Simultaneously, the impact of the modified process parameters, such as air surplus and useful heat output, on the overall process will be evaluated using process simulations. The findings will be continuously verified experimentally in collaboration with Pewag, with support from the IWT for selected experiments.

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Contact: Dr. Robert Scharler

 PAID DIPLOMA / MASTER’S THESIS (Lenzing Group)

Purpose and Background:

The Master Thesis puts focus on the standard technology used within the Lenzing group for regenerative CS2 adsorption from “lean gas” (CS2 concentration up to LEL) – the Supersorbon process. CS2 is adsorbed batchwise to activated carbon and is recovered for reuse in the viscose fiber production process after desorption and condensation. The discontinuous loading process for CS2 to activated carbon is central part of the research. Target is to find the maximum specific loading rate via theoretic modelling, but also variation of process parameters.

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Contact: Kevin Schulze