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Welcome to the Institute of Engineering Thermodynamics!

The Institute of Engineering Thermodynamics (LTT), founded in 1989 and based in Erlangen-Tennenlohe, is one of ten institutes of the Department of Chemical and Bioengineering (CBI) at the Faculty of Engineering of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). In addition to basic lectures on technical thermodynamics and heat and mass transfer in various course programmes, the LTT  offers a wide range of advanced courses in the fields of energy technology, combustion and measurement methods

Research at the LTT Erlangen covers a broad spectrum, starting with basic investigations, e.g. on complex molecules, particle formation and combustion processes, through to the improvement of technical processes in energy and process engineering. A major methodological focus of the LTT lies in the development and application of optical, mostly laser-based measurement methods. In all research areas, there is close cooperation with national and international partners from science and industry. Among other things, the LTT is integrated into the FAU institutions founded as part of the Excellence Initiative, namely the Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT) and the Competence Unit Engineering of Advanced Materials (EAM).

 

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Mr. Alexander Fenk, M.Sc., has been working as a SAOT scholarship holder in the Combustion and Reactive Flows working group at LTT since September 2025. He completed his master's thesis at KIT and DLR on the topic of “Modal analysis of volumetric flow fields from experimental shake-the-box results.”...

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ILASS Europe took place in Lund, Sweden, from September 1 to 4. LTT was represented by Benjamin Klevansky, who gave a presentation on the characterization of multicomponent fuels using optical diagnostics based on fluorescence and light scattering.

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This year, the 32. Deutsche Flammentag took place in Paderborn, and the Combustion and Reactive Flows Working Group was represented with several presentations, as Season Chair of “Industrie- und Kraftwerksfeuerungen” and with a poster. In addition, Sebastian Faderl and Florian Bauer participated in ...

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Phillipp Bräuer and Benjamin Klevansky have won the SAOT Innovation Award 2025 for their proposal for a Raman setup for the in-situ control of highly-fluorescing biological processes. In the picture (from left to right): Dr. Max Gmelch, SAOT Director of Administration and Outreach, Benjamin Klevansk...

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Mr Ralph Bissé, Dipl.-Ing. (FH), has been working in the areas of occupational safety and technical organisation at LTT since May 2025. He studied at the Georg Simon Ohm University of Applied Sciences in Nuremberg, then worked for many years as an application and project engineer and spent several y...

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