Helmut Gerstenberg

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Helmut Gerstenberg (born August 16, 1926 in Gotha ; † April 5, 1983 ) was a German engineer and inventor .

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After graduating from high school in Meiningen, Gerstenberg studied mechanical engineering at the TH Hannover and completed his studies with the title of qualified engineer . He was assistant at the chair for internal combustion engines at the TH Hannover and from 1952 to 1954 he worked as a designer and test engineer for diesel engines at Hanomag in Hannover .

Since 1954 Gerstenberg was employed as a test engineer for solid-liquid systems at Hoechst AG , later head of the process engineering department . He invented the color dyeing of the synthetic fiber Trevira (R) and the bubble column reactor . At the annual meeting of process engineers from September 27 to 29, 1978 in Aachen, he gave a lecture on the bubble column reactor, a process engineering device that can be used for chemical and biochemical reactions between gas and liquid, which was highly regarded in specialist circles. As an inventor, he held patents in Europe, the United States of America and Canada

He lived in Fischbach .

Publications (selection)

  • "Determination of the particle size of plastic powders", in: Chemie Ingenieur Technik , September 1957
  • Determination of the particle size distribution of solids with the sedimentation balance , in: DECHEMA-Monographien Vol. 31, 1959
  • "Recording of drying curves", in: Chemie Ingenieur Technik , September 1960
  • Tamaño óptimo para plantas piloto con miras al cambio de escala, al funcionamiento ya los costes . Bilbao: La Convención 1973
  • "Bubble column reactors", in: Chemie Ingenieur Technik , March 1979, pp. 208-216. (Lecture at the annual meeting of process engineers, September 27-29, 1978 in Aachen)
  • "Processing of fermentation products", in: Chemie Ingenieur Technik , 1980 (with Wolfgang Sittig and Karlheinz Zepf)
  • "Stirring tank reactors for polymer syntheses", in: Chemie Ingenieur Technik , 1983 (with Peter Sckuhr and Rudolf Steiner)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Dechema Monographs 1959, editions 426-450, p. 52
  2. ^ Advances in process engineering, Volume 16, Verlag Chemie 1978, p. 349
  3. ↑ Parvinder Kaur, Ashima Vohra, Tulasi Satyanarayana: Laboratory and Industrial Bioreactors for Submerged Fermentations , in: Fermentation Processes Engineering in the Food Industry , CRC Press , Boca Raton 2013, ISBN 978-1439887684 , p. 174
  4. ↑ Helmut Gerstenberg: Bubble column reactors , in: Chemie Ingenieur Technik , March 1979
  5. ↑ Official gazette of the United States Patent Office 1961, p. 223
  6. ↑ The Canadian Patent Office Record , Vol. 96, No. 28-30, p. 6646
personal data
SURNAME Gerstenberg, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and inventor
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Gotha
DATE OF DEATH April 5th 1983