Anton Friedl

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Anton Friedl (born March 14, 1958 in Sieggraben ) is an Austrian process engineer and university lecturer.

Life

Anton Friedl was born on March 14, 1958 in Sieggraben . He attended the HTBLA Eisenstadt specializing in mechanical engineering, from which he graduated in 1978. This was followed by studying technical chemistry at the Vienna University of Technology , which he graduated in 1984 with a degree in engineering. Anton Friedl rounded off the subsequent doctoral studies at the Vienna University of Technology on the subject of product separation in alcohol fermentations with a research stay at Massey University in New Zealand in 1989/90. In 1990 he was promoted to Dr. techn. PhD. From April 1990 to December 1990 Friedl attended the university course “Project Management in Export” at the Vienna University of Economics and Business .

As an award for his dissertation, the “Academic-Social Working Group Austria” recognized him in 1991 as a mobility degree, which enabled him to do a post-doctoral stay at the University of California at Berkeley in the field of chemical engineering. There Friedl got to know the possibilities of process simulation, whereupon he introduced an objective lecture and exercise after his return to the Technical University of Vienna. At the end of 1991, at what was then the Institute for Process, Fuel and Environmental Technology at the Vienna University of Technology, he was offered the opportunity to set up the “Bioprocess Engineering and Membrane Technology” working group.

In 1995 Friedl completed his habilitation at the Technical University of Vienna in the field of process engineering with the text Selected Membrane Separation Processes in Biotechnology and Environmental Technology and at the same time took over the lectures in the field of "Thermal Process Engineering". In addition, his work area was further expanded in the field of "Thermal Process Engineering and Simulation". Between 1996 and 1999, Anton Friedl gained experience in industry as a project manager at the then Austrian company Austrian Energy and Environment-SGP / Waagner Biro of the VA-Tech group. The project he led comprised the construction of the first chicken manure incinerator based on a fluidized bed. The scope of the project also included the flue gas cleaning , the steam cycle with turbine and the condenser.

From the winter semester 1993 he taught at the Technical University of Vienna in the field of "thermal process engineering" and "process simulation". As part of his research projects, he dealt with the production of biofuels and bioenergy from renewable raw materials as well as energy efficiency. As a result of his research, he was awarded the professional title of "University Professor" on December 23, 2010. On November 1, 2013, he was appointed Professor of Process Engineering at the Institute for Process Engineering, Environmental Technology and Technical Biosciences at the Vienna University of Technology.

His research focus in the field of "Energy and Environment" is sustainable technologies, products and production as well as the efficient use of material use of resources. In the area of ​​“Computational Science and Engineering” he deals with the research fields of modeling and simulation.

From 2014 to 2018 Anton Friedl was director of the Institute for Process Engineering, Environmental Technology and Technical Biosciences at the Technical University of Vienna. To date, he has written more than 220 scientific papers and registered a number of patents.

honors and awards

  • 1991: Award of the dissertation product separation in ethanol fermentation and in acetone-butanol fermentation with the mobility grant from the Austrian Academic and Social Working Group
  • 1997: VA Tech - Special prize for the technological innovation "CO2 processes with the aim of generating energy while avoiding the greenhouse effect"
  • 2008: Honorary doctorate from the Technical University "Gheorghe Asachi" Iaşi , Romania

Patents

  • with A. Schmidt and A. Windsperger: Process for Separating Oxygenous Organic Compounds from Aqueous Media ; Patent: USA, No. A 289/86; Filed 1985, Issued February 6, 1986.
  • with A. Schmidt and A. Windsperger: Process for the separation of oxygen-containing organic compounds from aqueous media ; Patent: Austria, No. 384 239 B; Filed 1987, Issued October 12, 1987.
  • with A. Schmidt and A. Windsperger: Process for the separation of oxygen-containing organic compounds from aqueous media ; Patent: Europa, No. 0 235 117 A1; submitted: January 29, 1987, granted: October 12, 1987.
  • with T. Ters, A. Fuqaha, E. Srebotnik, F. Zikeli and K. Messner: Method for production of lignin ; Patent: USA, No. US201113882485; submitted: January 28, 2011.
  • with T. Ters, A. Fuqaha, E. Srebotnik, F. Zikeli and K. Messner: Method for production of lignin ; Patent: International, No. Wo 2012/054947 A2; submitted: October 28, 2011.
  • with A. Fuqaha, F. Weinwurm and T. Ters: Method for working up an aqueous lignin containing solution ; Patent: USA, No. US201214358590; submitted: November 6, 2014.
  • with T. Ters, A. Fuqaha, E. Srebotnik, F. Zikeli and K. Messner: Method for production of lignin ; Patent: Europa, No. Ep 2 632 930 B1; submitted: October 29, 2010, issued: March 9, 2016.
  • with F. Weinwurm and S. Beisl: Production of sulfur-free lignin nanoparticles ; Patent: Austria, No. A 51180/2016; submitted: December 23, 2016.

Fonts (selection)

  • Extraction of ethanol from aqueous solutions , diploma thesis, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna 1984.
  • Product separation in ethanol fermentation and in acetone-butanol fermentation , dissertation, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna 1990.
  • Selected membrane separation processes in biotechnology and environmental technology , habilitation thesis , Vienna University of Technology, Faculty of Technical Chemistry, Vienna 1995.
  • with A. Windsperger and S. Minkov: Inert gas stripping as product separation in acetone-butanol fermentation and ethanol fermentation ; Zuckerindustrie 114, 3, 1989, pp. 216-221.
  • with N. Qureshi and IS Maddox: Continuous Acetone-Butanol-Ethanol (ABE) Fermentation Using Immobilized Cells of Clostridium Acetobutylicum in a Packed Bed Reactor and Integration with Product Removal by Pervaporation ; Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Vol. 38, 1991, pp. 518-527.
  • with A. Schmidt: Product separation in alcohol fermentations ; Chemie Ingenieur Technik, 9, 1992, pp. 871-872.
  • with M. Harasek and A. Schmidt: Recycling and waste reduction through the use of pervaporation ; Disposal Practice, March 1993, pp. 150–154.
  • Membrane separation processes in biotechnology ; GÖCH special volume ( ISBN 3-900554-14-5 ), 1993, pp. 91-98.
  • with E. Kübel: Use of process simulation in membrane separation processes ; GÖCH special volume ( ISBN 3-900554-14-5 ), 1993, pp. 99-108.
  • with F. Pröll, R. Reitzig and T. Zich: Pellets for biological exhaust air purification - the solution of many problems through a new type of filling material ; VDI report no. 1241, 1996, pp. 511-529.
  • with W. Strobl and A. Schmidt: Use of membrane separation processes to separate carbon disulfide and hydrogen sulfide from exhaust air streams ; Hazardous substances-clean air 56, 1996, pp 333-336.
  • "Lignocellulosic Biorefinery"; Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, Vol 11, No 1, 2012, pp. 75-79.
  • with N. Qureshi and I. Maddox: Butanol production from concentrated lactose / whey permeate: Use of pervaporation membrane to recover and concentrate product ; Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 98, 2014, pp. 9859-9867.
  • Biogenic resources ; Paper from Austria, 51, 2014, 1; Pp. 28-29.
  • Downstream process options for the ABE fermentation ; FEMS Microbiology Letters, 363, 2016.
  • with S. Beisl and A. Miltner: Lignin from Micro- to Nanosize: Production Methods ; International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 18, 1244, 2017.
  • with S. Beisl and A. Miltner: Lignin from Micro- to Nanosize: Applications ; International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 18, 2367, 2017.
  • with S. Riepl and A. Miltner: On treasure hunt: The search for the royal road - or the evaluation of different innovative alternatives under risk ; Controller Magazin, 43, 5, 2018, pp. 12–17.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Anton Friedl: From mechanical engineering to biorefineries . In: Der Reaktor 104, No. 4/2013, p. 15.
  2. ↑ a b c Vienna University of Technology, Institute for Process Engineering - personal profile
  3. ↑ Prof. dr.eng, dr.hc Anton Friedl article on iceem.ro
  4. ^ Publications, website of the TU Wien
  5. ↑ Honorary doctorate for Anton Friedl Article on tuwien.ac.at
personal data
SURNAME Friedl, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian process engineer and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Sieggraben