Volker Hessel

 

Volker Hessel

Professor,

Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry Board member of the
Flow Chemistry Society

Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Prof.dr. Volker Hessel, born 1964, studied chemistry at Mainz University. He got the PhD level in the field of organic chemistry in 1993. The topic of his PhD thesis was structure-property relationships of special supra-molecular structures, micelles and lyotropic liquid crystals, constructed by so-called bi- or multi-polar amphiphiles with rigid core unit. Since 1994 Prof.dr. Hessel is an employee of the Institut für Mikrotechnik Mainz GmbH and since 1996 he became group leader for microreaction technology. In 1999 he was appointed Head of the Microreaction Technology Department, formed at that time, meanwhile named Chemical Process Technology. His fields of research comprise micro process engineering for mixing, fine chemistry, fuel processing and heterogeneous catalysis.
In 2002 Prof. Dr. Hessel was appointed Vice Director R&D at IMM and in 2007 as Director R&D at IMM. Prof.dr. Hessel is author or co-author of more than 250 peer-reviewed publications (with 24 extended reviews) and more than 180 conference papers with regard to chemical micro process engineering, 23 book chapters, and 5 books. In July 2005, Prof.dr. Hessel was appointed as part-time professor for the chair of “Micro Process Engineering” at Eindhoven University of Technology, TU/e. This professorship is under the umbrella of the Chemical Reactor Engineering group of Prof.dr.ir. Jaap Schouten in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry. Currently, Prof.dr. Hessel was appointed as honorary professor at the Technical Chemistry Department at Technical University of Darmstadt and is in this function active within the Cluster of Excellence Smart Interfaces (CSI).Prof. Hessel has been appointed as full professor for the chair of "Micro Flow Chemistry and Process Technology" at TU Eindhoven in 2011. In July 2012 prof.dr. Hessel was appointed as Guest Professor at the Kunming University of Science and Technology in China.

Prof.dr. Hessel received the AIChE award “Excellence in Process Development Research” in 2007. His Hirsch number (scientific impact measure) is 36.

A.o. Prof.dr. Hessel was AIChE chair (US) “Microprocess Engineering”(2005-2008); elected board member of the German industrial platform IPmVT; member of the editorial boards of “Catalysis Today”, “Chemical Engineering Journal”, “Chemical Engineering Technology”, “Recent Patents on Chemical Engineering”, and “Current Organic Chemistry”; Topical chair at AIChE Spring conferences 2006+2007 and organising committee member of symposia held at CHISA-6, ECCE-6 (EPIC), EUChemS and WCCE-8 as well as chair of the program committees of the “Conference on Smart Synthesis and Technologies for Organic Processes” (SynTOP) and the “International Conference on Microreaction Technology 10” (IMRET-10).

Prof.dr. Hessel is Editor-in-Chief of the new journal “Green Processing and Synthesis” (deGruyter).

Address:

Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
P.O. Box 513
5600 MB EINDHOVEN

Chair:

Micro Flow Chemistry and Process Technology

Department:Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry

Section:Micro Flow Chemistry and Process Technology

Positioncategory:Professor (HGL)

Position:Full Professor

Room:STW 1.45

Tel:+31 40-247 2973

Tel (internal):2973

Email:v.hessel@tue.nl

Scientific publications

Journal article

Academic publ. refereed

2016

• Vural - Gursel, I., Kurt, S.K., Wang, Q., Noël, T., Nigam, K.D.P., Kockmann, N. & Hessel, V. (2016). Utilization of milliscale coiled flow inverter in combination with phase separator for continuous flow liquid-liquid extraction processes. Chemical Engineering Journal, 283(1), 855-868. in Web of Science Cited 0 times
  

2015

• Borukhova, S., Seeger, A.D., Noël, T., Wang, Q., Busch, M. & Hessel, V. (2015). Pressure-accelerated azide-alkyne cycloaddition : micro capillary versus autoclave reactor performance. ChemSusChem, 8(3), 504-512. in Web of Science Cited 4 times
  
• Gemoets, H.P.L., Su, Y., Shang, M., Hessel, V., Luque, R. & Noël, T. (2015). Liquid phase oxidation chemistry in continuous-flow microreactors. Chemical Society Reviews, accepted or in press.
  
• Gericke, D., Ott-Reinhardt, D., Matveeva, V., Sulman, E.M., Aho, A., Murzin, D.Y., Roggan, S., Danilova, L., Hessel, V., Löb, P. & Kralisch, D. (2015). Green catalysis by nanoparticulate catalysts developed for flow processing? case study of glucose hydrogenati

Ancillary activities

• Wiley-VCH, book writing / book editing
• De Gruyter, book writing / book editing
• Green Manufacturing Program of Glaxo-Smith-Kline and Singapore Economic Development Board, Advisor, expert, authority
• Expert of the German DFG Excellence Cluster Blasensaelen
• Editor in Chief for Green Processing and Synthesis, De Gruyter
• Editorial Board Member for Reaction Chemistry - Engineering, RSC

• Editorial Board Member for Processes, MDPI
• European Editor for Journal of Flow Chemistry, Kluwer Academics
• Elsevier, Wiley-VCH, Bentham (publishing houses), Scientific advisory boards of jounals
• NIOK, Programmraad TKI Chemie - Chemical Nanotechnology - Devices
• Member of platform organisation and societies
• Dutch Catalyst Society and expert in national TopSecret programme for chemistry

 

Process intensification in advancing progress in multiphase reactor engineering

Wednesday 27 June 2012; 12:30-18:00
Emeleus Lecture Theatre / Lanyon building
Queen's University Belfast

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"Multiphase Catalytic Reactors Structured at the Meso-scale "

Volker Hessel^1,2,

Timothy Noel¹, Qi Wang^{1 1} Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
² Technische Universität Darmstadt, Cluster of Excellence Smart Interfaces, Germany

Micro Process Technology and Flow Chemistry have given strong push to continuous chemical manufacture via facilitating heat and mass transfer (transport intensification). The next big step is to develop a tailored process chemistry in flow under highly intensified conditions. This has been coined Novel Process Windows [1,2] and has two research pillars, – the exploration of unusual and typically harsh process conditions (chemical intensification) and, in a more holistic picture, a completely new and often simpler process design (process-design intensification).
The 1,3-Huisgen cycloaddition (Click Chemistry) and the Claisen rearrangement are processed harshly and chemically intensified. Click Chemistries owe the capability to be integrated in multi-step (tandem, cascade, …) into flow. Starting from such new reaction designs, new process designs are developed for large-scale industrial processes such as the direct adipic acid route in the frame of Nylon process and hydroformylation; with major consequences on sustainability, CAPEX/OPEX costs and energy consumption.
Prof. Dr. Volker Hessel, born 1964, studied chemistry at Mainz University. Since 1994 he is an employee of the Institut für Mikrotechnik Mainz GmbH. In 1999 he was appointed Head of the Microreaction Technology Department. In 2002 Prof. Hessel was appointed Vice Director R&D at IMM and in 2007 as Director R&D at IMM. He is author or co-author of more than 200 peer-reviewed publications (with 29 extended reviews), 16 book chapters, and 5 books. In 2005, he was appointed as part-time professor for the chair of "Micro Process Engineering" at Eindhoven University of Technology. In 2009, he was appointed as honorary professor at the Technical Chemistry Department at Technical University of Darmstadt and is Fellow of their Cluster of Excellence "Smart Interfaces". In 2011, he was appointed as full professor for the chair of "Micro Flow Chemistry and Process Technology" at Eindhoven University of Technology, TU/e. Prof. Hessel received the AIChE award "Excellence in Process Development Research" in 2007. He received in 2010 the ERC Advanced Grant about "Novel Process Windows" and is Editor-in-Chief of the journal "Green Processing and Synthesis".

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