Klaus Hartmann (engineer)

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Klaus R. Hartmann

Klaus Hartmann (born May 16, 1939 in Dresden ) is a German engineer , professor and entrepreneur for process engineering . He is a pioneer of computer-aided process system technology, the computer control of large process engineering systems and a co-founder of system process engineering / process engineering.

Education

Hartmann attended elementary school in Fürstenwalde from 1945 to 1953 , then the high school "Glück auf" in Altenberg . He passed his Abitur in 1957 at the Workers 'and Farmers' Faculty of the Martin Luther University in Halle . He has been working with process engineer Dr. habil. Galina Hartmann is married and has two sons.

From 1957 to 1962 he studied process engineering and chemical technology at the St. Petersburg Technological University (Leningrad Technological Institute, LTI). In his diploma thesis he dealt with the computer-aided optimization of chemical reactor systems. After a brief work in VEB paint factory Wolfen he graduated from the LTI 1962-1964 a scientific postgraduate and doctorate in 1965 with a thesis on the optimization of reactor systems.

Activity in industry

In January 1965 he took over the plant optimization department in the newly founded crude oil processing plant in Schwedt (EVW) - later Petrolchemisches Kombinat Schwedt ( PCK ) - from 1966 the main process control department with the aim of complex automation of all main and auxiliary systems and the implementation of a hierarchically structured process computer system as well as computer-based ones commercial computing. These innovations made the PCK Schwedt one of the most modern refineries in Germany. The scientific and engineering basics and methods / algorithms that were developed for complex automation were published in the 1970 monograph “Analysis and Control of Processes in Materials Management”. In 1974 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on the computer-aided synthesis of large process engineering systems.

Scientific activity

Technical University of Leuna-Merseburg

In 1972 he was appointed full professor for system process engineering in the process engineering section at the TH Leuna-Merseburg . His teaching and research focused on computer-aided teaching methods and tools for plant modeling, plant simulation and optimization, synthesis methods for optimal structures for material separation and heat transfer as well as chemical reactors. Numerous research results have been put into practice in cooperation with large-scale industry. New principles and methods such as the use of neural networks, fuzzy methods (fuzzy sets and multi-criteria optimization in collaboration with Manfred Peschel ) were further developed and used industrially. From 1976 to 1981 he was elected Section Director of the Process Engineering Section and from 1983 to 1986 Dean of the Faculty of Technical Sciences and Mathematics. After refusing to participate in the anti-SDI program of the USSR and GDR, he left the THLM in 1986.

Academy of Science

In 1986 he took over the area of ​​process and systems analysis at the Institute for Chemical Technology of the Academy of Sciences . The main object of the research was the creation of a model and computer-aided advisory system for the material and energetic use of fossil carbon carriers, including the necessary CO 2 reduction strategies for the entire economy of the GDR. The model simulations showed that the cut in oil supplies from the USSR to the GDR resulted in significant bottlenecks in the national economy and that the associated impending economic crises were foreseeable as early as 1988. Other focal points of his research were fuzzy methods of modeling, polyoptimization of large systems and structure synthesis methods of process engineering systems and the development and application of artificial intelligence methods for controlling large systems

Technical University Berlin

In the unification treaty of 1990, the Academy of Sciences of the GDR and all its facilities were dissolved on December 31, 1991. Hartmann's system process engineering work group was incorporated into the Institute for Process and Plant Engineering at the Technical University of Berlin (TU) on January 1, 1992 . New teaching and research topics such as process system engineering and system engineering were offered in the TU's teaching programs and research was carried out on the synthesis of optimal process engineering systems. At the same time, Hartmann took over the chair of process system technology at the newly founded Brandenburg Technical University of Cottbus from 1993 to 1997 . To implement innovative ideas for new types of high-speed material separation equipment, he founded a company with young engineers in 1998 - the Gesellschaft für Informations- und Prozesstechnik mbH (GESIP).

Publications and other scientific activities

His publication activities include numerous monographs, textbooks, anthologies, dictionaries and translations / editorships, in particular of monographs by Soviet scientists, with whom joint research work has been carried out for decades. He has written numerous specialist lectures and publications in specialist journals. In addition, he published the series "Fundamentals of Process Engineering and Chemical Technology" with MG Slinko and later together with W. Schirmer until 1985, which presented new research results in systems and process engineering. From 1974 to 1988 he was a member of the editorial board of the journal “Wissenschaft und progress”.

From 1973 to 1986 he was responsible for the research area system process engineering in the main research area process engineering in the chemistry program of basic research in the GDR under the direction of Wolfgang Fratzscher and from 1985 to 1989 member of the scientific advisory board for basic energy research at the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences.

He was also a reviewer for research and science bodies such as the German Research Foundation (DFG), Volkswagen Foundation, NATO Science Foundation, the European Union in the review committee of the EU Science Award (Descartes), in appointment projects / dissertations, research projects in Germany and abroad.

Hartmann is the owner of numerous patents.

Entrepreneur

Hartmann became one of the managing directors of GESIP. The company had its experimental base at the Technical University of Berlin and in the environmental center in Berlin-Adlershof . The high-speed material separation elements (gas-liquid separators) developed by the company were patented and awarded the Berlin-Brandenburg Innovation Prize in 1999. These new mass transfer elements are used industrially.

In 2004, Klaus Hartmann went into academic retirement. His retirement was followed by an extensive guest teaching position, which he had already started as a professor. a. in St. Petersburg, Moscow, China, Prague, Sofia, Helsinki, Tokyo, Kyoto, Detroit, Kazan, Durban, Manchester.

honors and awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Klaus Hartmann (editor and author): Analysis and control of processes in materials management. Collective of authors, Berlin Akademie-Verlag, Leipzig, German publishing house for basic industry 1971
  • WW Kafarow and Klaus Hartmann: Cybernetic Methods in Chemistry and Chemical Technology. Berlin, Akademie-Verlag, 1971
  • D. Balzer, K. Hartmann, R. Kusin, E. Lezki, G. Reinig: Practical experience and results of the use of digital computers for the analysis, modeling and control of process engineering processes. measure-control-regulate 15 (1972) 9, 334-337
  • K. Hartmann, MG Slinko: Automated control of continuous production processes. Akademie-Verlag Berlin 1975
  • G. Gruhn, K. Hartmann u. a .: System process engineering. 2 volumes, Deutscher Verlag für Grundstofftindustrie, Leipzig 1976 and 1978
  • Klaus Hartmann u. a .: Statistical test planning and evaluation in materials management. German publishing house for basic industry, VEB, Leipzig, 1974, Russ. Edition Mir Publishing House, Moscow 1977
  • K. Hartmann, E.-O. Reher et al. a .: Process engineering. German publishing house for basic industry, Leipzig 1978
  • Co-author in ABC of process engineering. VEB German publishing house for basic industry, Leipzig 1979
  • K. Hartmann, W. Schirmer, M. Slinko: Problems of modern chemical technology. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1980
  • K. Hartmann. W. Kohlert: Calculation of chemical-technological processes (Russian), Chimija, 2nd edition, Leningrad 1982, publisher: IP Muchljonov
  • G. Zeising, M. Wagenknecht, K. Hartmann: Synthesis of Distillation Trains with Heat Integration by a Combined Fuzzy and Graphical Approach. Fuzzy Sets and Systems 12 (1984) 103-115
  • K. Hartmann, co-author: Chemical-technological systems - design, optimization u. Control. (Russian) Chimija Publishing House, Leningrad 1985
  • K. Hartmann, co-author: Process engineering calculation methods. Volume 6: Processes and Systems. VEB German publishing house for basic industry, Leipzig 1984 and 1986; VCH Verlag, Weinheim 1987
  • K. Hartmann, co-author: Chemical-technological systems - design, optimization and control. (Russian) Chimija Publishing House, Leningrad 1985
  • M. Peschel, K. Hartmann u. a .: Optimizing the quality of complex products and processes. (Russian) Verlag Chimija, Moscow 1989, ISBN 5-7245-0353-0
  • M. Peschel, K. Hartmann u. a .: Optimization of products and processes. VEB Verlag Technik, Berlin 1989
  • Co-author: Process engineering calculation methods. Volume 6: Processes and Systems. VEB German publishing house for basic industry, Leipzig 1984 and 1986; VCH Verlag, Weinheim 1987
  • K. Hartmann, K. Kaplick: Analysis and design of chemical-technological processes. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1985 ( Analysis and Synthesis of Chemical Process Systems. Elsevier 1990, ISBN 0-444-98745-2 )
  • U. Behrendt, A. Barnikow, M. Scharni, K. Hartmann: An Interactive Decision Support System for Energy and Chemical Industry Projects System Analysis. Modeling Simulation, No. 4 (1990)

Web links

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  • K. Hartmann: The importance of system process engineering in the GDR and for today's development. In: W. Fratzscher and K.-P. Meinicke (Ed.): Process engineering and reunification. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1997
  • Klaus Hartmann: System Process Engineering. In: Merseburg Contributions to the History of the Chemical Industry in Central Germany - 50 Years of the University in Merseburg. Material witnesses of the chemical industry 1/2004
  • A. Barnikow, U. Behrendt, K. Hartmann, M. Scharni: DICTUM: Decision support system for analysis and synthesis of large-scale industrial systems. Part I: Components, Computers in Industry. Volume 18, 1992, pp. 135-144, Part II: Databases and industrial applications. Volume 18, 1992, pp. 145-153
  • W. Schirmer, MG Slinko, K. Hartmann (eds.): Preparing for use of process computers. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1979
  • K. Hartmann, G. Hartmann, EO Reher: Technology - Dictionary: Process engineering: English, German, French, Russian. 1989, ISBN 978-3-341-00719-8
  • Dietrich Balzer, Klaus Hartmann u. a .: Stability of procedural processes and systems: theory and applications. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-05-500763-8
  • K. Hartmann co-author in: W. Fratzscher, K. Stephan (Ed.): Strategies for waste energy recovery. A contribution to the entropy economy. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 2000, ISBN 978-3-322-89903-3
  • K. Hartmann: New technologies for reducing the CO2 content of flue gases from power plants and other CO2-containing gas flows. In: Meeting reports of the Leibniz Society. Volume 64, Berlin 2004, pp. 111-134

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerd Bukowski, Heinz Limmer, From a model company to a top refinery, The history of the oil refinery in Schwedt, Janos Stekovics 2011, ISBN 978-3-89923-282-0
  2. ↑ K. Hartmann, V. Gilyarov, R. Hartmann: A neuro-fuzzy tool for the generation and improvement of heuristic rules for process synthesis, design and control, Proceedings ISPE `95, Snowmass Village, Colorado, USA, 9.-14 . July 1995, ISBN 0-8169-0707-2 .
  3. ↑ R. Buthmann, High Technologies and State Security (Series B: Analyzes and Reports, No. 1/2000), Ed. BStU Berlin 2000
  4. ^ K. Hartmann, L. Dietzsch, A decision support for the long-term development planning of large-scale process systems, Proceedings of the Fifth World Congress of Chemical Engineering, 1996, San Diego, USA, TRN 96: 006489-0001
  5. ↑ Patent DE 198 28 884. June 22, 1998, accessed on September 5, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hartmann, Klaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hartmann, Richard Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer, university professor and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden