Jun 27, 2024
Awards for EVT employees at the Faculty Day 2024
Dipl.-Ing. Lena Hensch received the Franz Stolze Prize on Faculty Day, presented by Dr.-Ing. E.h. Manfred Freimark.
On June 22, 2020, the Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering held its graduation day, which serves as a graduation ceremony for all those who completed their studies, doctorate or habilitation between March 1, 2023 and February 29, 2024. In addition to honoring the graduates, the award winners were also honored at this event.
We congratulate Dipl.-Ing. Lena Hensch, who was awarded the Franz Stolze Prize on this evening. This prize is awarded annually in recognition of outstanding scientific theses by students and young scientists at TU Dresden in the field of energy technology. Ms. Hensch received this prize for her outstanding thesis on "Creation of a mathematical model to determine nitrous oxide (N2O) and nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions during thermal sewage sludge treatment in fluidized bed furnaces", which was awarded a grade of 1.0 by both assessors.
Left to right: Dr.-Ing. E.h. Manfred Freimark, Dr.-Ing. Stefan Fogel, Dipl.-Ing. Lena Hensch and Prof. Dr. et Ing. habil. Kerstin Eckert after the ceremony
With the model she developed and the validation on a real 13 MW mono sewage sludge incineration plant, Ms. Hensch was able to demonstrate the potential for N2O reduction in comparatively easy-to-implement technical measures. The results of their work were already presented at the annual meeting of the DECHEMA specialist groups Waste Treatment and Resource Recovery (AuW) and Gas Cleaning (GAS) on March 26, 2014 and were discussed with great interest by experts. In addition, an abstract was also submitted to the "29th International Conference on the Impacts of Fuel Quality on Power Production and the Environment" (02.09.-06.09.24). Further publications and research proposals are being prepared.
From left to right: Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Antonio Hurtado, prizewinner Dr.-Ing. Milad Eftekhari, Dr.-Ing. Anna Martius and prizewinner Dr.-Ing. Stefan Heidinger after the Boysen Foundation sponsorship award ceremony
This year, the Boysen Foundation's award for particularly outstanding dissertations by young scientists in the field of environmental technology with a focus on engineering solutions for reducing pollutants, noise and energy consumption went to Dr. Stefan Heidinger and his dissertation entitled "Heat and Mass Transfer to Particles in Pulsating Flows". Mr. Heidinger, already a scholarship holder of the 3rd Boysen-TU Dresden Graduate School in 2019, presented a topic of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, acoustics and apparatus engineering in all its complexity in a clear and theoretically flawless manner. Through his work, he was able to make a significant contribution to a deeper understanding of the processes involved, in particular heat and mass transfer.