Walter Rühl
Walter Rühl (born April 1, 1912 in Leipzig ; † November 21, 2008 in Hamburg ) was a German petroleum geologist and manager.
Life
Rühl studied geology, physics, chemistry and zoology in Leipzig . He received his doctorate in geology in 1938. After receiving his doctorate, he went to Deutsche Erdöl-Aktiengesellschaft (later, to Texaco, again RWE Dea ).
During the Second World War he worked for the DEA in Romania and as a "military geologist" in the Caucasus , later he was a "production geologist " in Vienna until 1945 . After the Second World War he became a production geologist at DEA in Wietze , where in 1947 he founded the "Research Laboratory for Petroleum Production ".
In 1966 DEA was taken over by Deutsche Texaco AG. In 1971 Rühl became a member of the "Digestion and Extraction" department of Deutsche Texaco AG, also in Wietze. In 1977 he retired.
Rühle headed several projects aimed at improving the yield from oil deposits ("Deoiling of deposits by secondary processes"). In the DEA's Hohne oil field , he led water flood projects and developed polymer flood processes . He also dealt with underground storage of natural gas and with unconventional deposits of heavy fuel oil , oil sands and oil shale . With a book on these topics he became internationally known in 1952.
From 1954 to 1979 Rühle held a teaching position at the TU Berlin . He wrote articles in manuals such as "Ullmanns Enzyklopädie der Technischen Chemie" and in the "Energy Manual" by Gerhard Bischoff and Werner Gocht.
Awards
- Carl Engler Medal of the DGMK (1980)
Publications (selection)
- Deoiling of oil deposits by secondary processes , published by the Geological State Institutes of the Federal Republic of Germany, Hanover: Office for Soil Research [in Komm.] 1952, [Geological Yearbook / Supplements] Geological Yearbook: Supplements; H. 4
- 125 years of oil in Wietze (brochure), Wietze 1983 online (PDF; 117 kB)
Web links
- Literature by and about Walter Rühl in the catalog of the German National Library
- Rühl's CV at DGMK on the occasion of the Carl Engler Medal (PDF; 105 kB)
- DGMK calendar for 2008 with Rühl's résumé and further information on his work (PDF; 3.5 MB)
- Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Walter Rühl . (PDF; 105 kB) Obituary, German Scientific Society for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Coal
Individual evidence
- ↑ see standard data of the energy manual in the German National Library at http://d-nb.info/811043525
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Rühl, Walter |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German petroleum geologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 1, 1912 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
DATE OF DEATH | November 21, 2008 |
Place of death | Hamburg |