Richard Doležal

Richard Doležal (born May 26, 1921 in Kostelec nad Orlicí ; † January 3, 2005 in Constance ) was a Czechoslovakian and German scientist from Bohemia in the field of process , fuel , furnace and power plant technology .

Life

Doležal studied mechanical engineering at the TH Prague from 1939 with interruptions due to the war until 1946 . In 1947 he received his doctorate there. After working in the Czech Škoda works and the Witkowitz iron works , he became a professor at the Ostrava Mining Academy , today's Ostrava University of Technology, in Ostrava . In 1960 he moved to the TH Prague. In 1968/1969, due to the political developments of the Prague Spring, he initially worked as a research assistant and from 1969 to 1974 as head of the steam generator department of the Sulzer brothers in Winterthur / Switzerland. In 1974 he received a reputation as a professor and director of the Institute for Heat and Fuel Technology at the TU Braunschweig . In 1978 he moved to the University of Stuttgart as a full professor , where he became director of the Institute for Process Engineering and Steam Boiler Science (IVD) and the Pfaffenwald thermal power station at the university. In 1989 he retired , but continued to manage the IVD and the thermal power station until 1992.

Richard Doležal was married for the first time to Vladimíra Věra Doležalová (born Podrazilová, * 1923 in Königgräz, † 2001 in Stuttgart), the mother of his two children, for the second time to Olga Kurzová-Doležalová (* 1924 in Holešov, Moravia).

Act

Richard Doležal developed the so-called melting chamber boiler for high-ballast coal and became internationally known.

He had applied for 42 patents and published numerous specialist publications; including his most famous work "Schmelzfeuerungen". This was followed by the books "High Pressure Superheated Steam", "Large Boiler Firings" and "Continuous Boilers", translated into several languages, which were standard works not only in the Eastern Bloc at the time.

At the University of Stuttgart, he was also involved in digital data processing and the expansion of the data center in order to enable mathematical simulations of the processes in the conventional thermal power plant . The solution algorithms he developed, especially the semi-analytical method, are still used today.

Doležal also developed methods of reducing the environmental impact in thermal power plants that result from the combustion of coal, oil, gas or biomass.

Fonts (selection)

• Smelting furnaces: theory, construction and operation. Verlag Technik, Berlin 1954.
• Energetic process engineering. Teubner, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-519-00098-9 .
• Steam generation: combustion, firing, steam generator. Springer, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-540-13771-8 .
• Combined gas and steam power plants. Springer, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-540-67526-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Richard Doležal in the catalog of the German National Library