Konrad Hungerbühler

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Konrad Hungerbühler (born October 11, 1952 in Zurich ) is a Swiss chemist .

From 1994 to 2018 he was full professor for safety and environmental protection technology in chemistry at the Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering at ETH Zurich .

Hungerbühler studied chemical engineering at the ETH Zurich. He did his dissertation on the subject of kinetics and scale-up in the continuous mass crystallization of potassium alum with John Russell Bourne . Between 1979 and 1994 he worked in chemical engineering at Ciba in Basel , where he was head of a research department in the textile division.

At the ETH, Hungerbühler worked in the area of ​​integrated development with the eco-efficiency and safety of chemical products and processes. For 2017 he was awarded the Wöhler Prize for Sustainable Chemistry from the Society of German Chemists .

At the end of January 2018, Hungerbühler retired.

Publications

  • Konrad Hungerbühler, Johannes Ranke, Thomas Mettier: Chemical products and processes: basic concepts for environmentally-oriented design . Springer, 1998, ISBN 978-3-540-64854-3 .
  • Konrad Hungerbühler: Kinetics and scale-up in the continuous mass crystallization of potassium alum , dissertation, 1978, doi: 10.3929 / ethz-a-000161233 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ chemie.de: Konrad Hungerbühler receives Wöhler Prize for Sustainable Chemistry 2017 , July 31, 2017, accessed on March 9, 2018.
  2. ↑ GS-WBF communication service: 10 professors appointed at both ETHs, September 28, 2017, accessed on March 9, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Hungerbühler, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss chemist
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich