Dominik Surek

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Dominik Surek (2014)

Dominik Surek (born May 22, 1933 in Schleise; † August 12, 2016 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German engineer and professor of mechanical engineering . He devoted himself to applied research and the training of engineers in the fields of fluid mechanics and fluid machines , in particular pumps , compressors and water turbines .

Career

Dominik Surek was born as the first son of the Mathilde and Paul Surek family in Schleise in the Groß-Wartenberg district in Lower Silesia (now Poland). Here he attended elementary school from 1939 to 1945. After his expulsion and resettlement in 1947, he became a student at the Pestalozzi School in Meißen .

He then learned the trade of toolmaker within two years and then worked for a year. In 1951 he took up engineering studies at the Technische Lehranstalt Dresden (engineering school), which he graduated with honors in 1954. Immediately afterwards, in 1954, he continued his studies at the Technical University of Dresden , where he studied fluid engineering and fluid machines at Werner Albring's chair . In 1959 he completed his studies with a degree in engineering with a thesis on the subject of "Development of a boiler feed pump for mercury", also with distinction.

Immediately afterwards he began his work as a scientific assistant at the Institute for Pumps and Compressors of the TH Dresden (head: Werner Pohlenz ). The work with his academic teachers Werner Albring , Werner Pohlenz , Willibald Lichtenheldt and Heinrich Kindler was formative for his further professional activity. Here he learned completely new approaches to processing fluidic processes in machines.

Furthermore, he became familiar with the new ideas of control engineering by working with the Institute for Control Engineering , which was founded by Kindler in 1955 as the first institute of its kind in German-speaking countries. This led to his early contacts with the Kindler School, from which well-known automation professors such as Karl Reinisch , Siegfried Pilz , Hans-Joachim Zander , Herbert Ehrlich , Wolfgang Weller , Georg Brack and Heinz Töpfer , whom he already knew from his engineering degree, arose. Later, Surek was able to apply this knowledge in a variety of practical ways, use it for his habilitation thesis, and as a professor he even offered his own courses in this field.

He completed his dissertation on the subject of "Investigation of the impeller friction and leakage losses in radial pumps" in 1965 at the TU Dresden and defended it with the title "magna cum laude".

Working as a fluid engineer in industry

After completing his dissertation, he went into industry in 1966. Here he was an employee from 1966 to 1970 and from 1970 to 1992 department head and division manager for research in the Scientific and Technical Center for Pumps and Compressors in Halle / Saale .

As a part-time job, he taught in the subjects of fluid flow machines and pumps at the TU Dresden and the TH Magdeburg .

During these years he also acquired the teaching qualification ( facultas docendi ) for the field of fluid flow machines at the Bergakademie Freiberg in Saxony. Furthermore, he worked on his habilitation thesis on the subject of "Application of three-phase drive technology for speed control of pumps and compressors", which he defended in 1991 at the Freiberg Mining Academy (Saxony). He then worked from 1992 to mid-1993 at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg , Institute for Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Energy Machines . Parallel to his work, he was head of the Research Association for Radial Machines for many years from 1971 to 1998 .

Act as a professor

In 1993 he was appointed professor at the newly founded Merseburg University of Applied Sciences, today Merseburg University of Applied Sciences (Rectors: Lothar Teschke and Johanna Wanka , who later became Federal Minister for Education and Research, BMBF ). Here he held the professorship for fluid mechanics and fluid machines until 1998 .

Surek's university teaching included lectures in the following areas:

  • Fluid mechanics, hydrostatics, hydrodynamics and gas dynamics
  • Fluid flow machines with the sub-areas pumps, compressors, fans, gas, steam and water turbines with lectures, arithmetic exercises and practical exercises
  • Acoustics and noise reduction in machines and systems
  • Measurement, control and regulation technology with arithmetic exercises and practical exercises, specifically for the requirements of mechanical engineering.

Even after reaching the statutory retirement age, he continued to work actively in teaching.

As a university professor, Surek worked on a number of scientific fields in his research . He developed an independent, industry-related research activity with several partners. For many years, Dominik Surek was also a member of the Senate Commission for Research, Knowledge Transfer and Business Start-ups, and for 8 years he was a member and chairman of the board of trustees of the University of Merseburg.

From 1998 to 2014 Surek was an appraiser and coordinator at the Working Group of Industrial Research Associations (AiF) "Otto von Guericke" e. V. active in the BMBF program aFuE at universities of applied sciences and also for Austria and Bavaria. From 1994 to 2002 he was a member of a working group of the German Research Foundation (DFG) .

In the spring of 1998, Surek founded the An-Institut Fluid- und Pumpentechnik e. V. Merseburg . Since then he has been the director of this affiliated institute FPT, and he was supported in his initiative in a variety of ways by research-active colleagues, including the professor for automation and communication technology Werner Kriesel as a member of the registered association. Surek's main research areas were fluid mechanics, transient currents, machine and fluid vibrations, pumps, turbo compressors, side channel machines, water turbines and hydrokinetic turbines.

Since the establishment of the affiliated institute and due to the previous industrial and university activities of Surek, very good contractual and sustainable cooperation relationships have developed with more than 20 well-known industrial companies in its specialist branch, e.g. B. with Gardner Denver Germany, Bad Neustadt, with Voith Turbo, Heidenheim and with KSB AG, Frankenthal.

He also established close professional contacts with 10 leading universities, e.g. B. TU Berlin , Institute for Fluid Mechanics and Technical Acoustics (ISTA); TU Braunschweig , Institute for Propulsion Systems and Turbomachines (IFAS); University of Duisburg-Essen , specialist institute for engineering.

Furthermore, Surek has maintained close cooperation relationships with six universities with comparable or similar subject areas. B. Anhalt University of Applied Sciences , Faculty of Mechanical Engineering; Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences , Department of Engineering and Industrial Design; University of Zittau / Görlitz , Department of Mechanical Engineering. In addition to the fields of mechanical engineering and physics, his university-internal cooperation network integrated, in particular, mechatronics with the specialist professor Manfred Lohöfener and automation technology with his professor colleagues Frank Sokollik and Peter Helm as well as process informatics with Rainer Winz .

As early as 1995, under the direction of Surek, the interrupter ground flow in side channel blowers was recognized for the first time and prepared for the theoretical advance calculation. In 1997 and 1998 the turbulent eddy currents in side channel blowers and the fluidic and thermodynamic behavior of side channel blowers were analyzed. In 1999 the speed of the expansion flow at the interrupter outlet of side channel blowers for the isentropic and the polytropic expansion flow could be determined. The special test stands created for this by Surek and his team represent a unique selling point compared to comparable higher education institutions in German-speaking countries.

In the years 2002 to 2005, the causes for the generation of noise in side channel blowers and the proportion of sound pressure in the gas pressure oscillations in side channel blowers were determined. From this knowledge about noise reduction could be derived. Only the measurement of the dynamic pressure curve in the impeller and interrupter and the transmission of the pressure signals by means of a telemetry system in 2006 and 2007 revealed the supersonic flow and the compression shocks of the gas at the inlet and outlet of the interrupter. This finding coincides with other phenomena of the polytropic expansion flow in the interrupter of side channel machines. The further increase in compression work and the degree of efficiency in side channel compressors can be achieved by influencing and optimizing the expanding interrupter flow. Approaches for this are available at the Institute of Fluid and Pump Technology.

In addition to numerous national and international specialist lectures, Surek's scientific publications include 16 specialist books as well as more than 275 specialist articles in journals and 20 patents. In addition, he organized regular conferences on "Technical Diagnostics" in cooperation with the university and published further scientific articles and specialist books from these. In October 2014, the 11th conference was held at the Merseburg University of Applied Sciences under his leadership.

In 2013, Surek received the transfer award from the Board of Trustees and the Senate dignity of Honorary Senator of the Merseburg University of Applied Sciences for his extraordinary services to the development of the research landscape at the university. Before Surek, this dignity was only awarded once in 2006 to the founding rector of the Lothar Teschke University .

Publications (selection)

  • Investigation of wheel friction and leakage losses in radial pumps. Dissertation . TU Dresden, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering 1965.
  • Application of three-phase drive technology for setting the speed of pumps and compressors. Habilitation . Bergakademie Freiberg (Saxony) 1991.
  • Thermodynamic processes and dissipation in side channel blowers. Faragallah Verlag, Sulzbach 1996, ISBN 3-929682-12-5 .
  • Flow processes and vibrations in side channel compressors. Faragallah Verlag, Sulzbach 2000, ISBN 3-929682-27-3 .
  • as ed. with V. Weise: Design and operation of side channel blowers - Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dedicated to Gerd Grabow on the occasion of his 75th birthday. Faragallah Verlag, Sulzbach 2003, ISBN 3-929682-35-4 .
  • with Silke Stempin: Applied fluid mechanics for practice and study (with 53 tables and 30 examples). Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-8351-0118-0 .
  • with Silke Stempin: 10 years of research at the An-Institut Fluid- und Pumpentechnik (FPT), Merseburg, March 10, 2008. Faragallah Verlag, Sulzbach 2008, ISBN 978-3-929682-29-8 .
  • Interrupt flow in side channel compressors. Faragallah Verlag, Sulzbach 2009, ISBN 978-3-929682-44-1 .
  • Diagnosis on turbo machines. Faragallah Verlag, Sulzbach 2011, ISBN 978-3-929682-52-6 .
  • 15 years of research - articles on fluid energy machines, Volume 10. Verlag and picture archive WH Faragallah, Sulzbach 2013, ISBN 978-3-929682-55-7 .
  • Compendium of centrifugal pumps. bookboon.com, London 2013, ISBN 978-87-403-0196-0 .
  • with Silke Stempin: Technical Fluid Mechanics - For studies, exams and practice. 2nd Edition. Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden, 2014, ISBN 978-3-658-06061-9 .
  • Pumps for sewage and sewage treatment plants - design and practical examples. Springer Vieweg Verlag, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-658-02959-3 .
  • Collaboration with: Alfred Böge, Wolfgang Böge (Hrsg.): Manual of Mechanical Engineering - Basics and Applications of Mechanical Engineering. Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-658-06597-3 .
  • as editor: Contributions to fluid energy machines. Collection of 9 publications 1993–2011. Faragallah Verlag, Sulzbach 2015.

literature

  • Falk Bahm et al: Contributions to fluid energy machines. Volume 4. Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dedicated to Dominik Surek on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Faragallah Verlag, Sulzbach 1998, ISBN 3-929682-19-2 .
  • Werner Kriesel , Hans Rohr, Andreas Koch: History and future of measurement and automation technology. VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-18-150047-X .
  • Werner Kriesel : Future models for computer science, automation and communication. In: Fuchs-Kittowski, Frank ; Kriesel, Werner (ed.): Computer science and society. Festschrift for the 80th birthday of Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski . Frankfurt a. M., Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Vienna: Peter Lang Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, PL Academic Research 2016, ISBN 978-3-631-66719-4 (print), E- ISBN 978-3-653 -06277-9 (e-book).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Neumann (ed.): Magdeburg's automation technology in transition - from industrial to research location. Authors: Christian Diedrich , Rolf Höltge, Ulrich Jumar , Achim Kienle, Reinhold Krampitz, Günter Müller, Peter Neumann, Konrad Pusch, Helga Rokosch, Barbara Schmidt, Ulrich Schmucker, Gerhard Unger, Günter Wolf. Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg ; Institute for Automation and Communication Magdeburg (ifak), Magdeburg 2018, production: Grafisches Centrum Cuno GmbH & Co. KG, Calbe (Saale), ISBN 978-3-944722-75-7 .
personal data
SURNAME Surek, Dominik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and professor of mechanical engineering
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Schleise
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 2016
Place of death Halle (Saale)