News from LTT
New doctorate at the LTT

The LTT warmly congratulates Simon Aßmann on passing his doctoral examination. His doctoral thesis, entitled ‘In situ characterisation of droplets…
Awarding of the ‘Audience Award for Excellence in Teaching’ to Franz Huber

The student council initiative CBI LSE CEN EnTe (FSI CBI) has awarded the 11th ‘Audience Award for Excellent Teaching’ for…
New doctorate at the LTT
Congratulations to Peter Lang!
LTT at PARTEC 25

LTT was once again represented with several contributions at PARTEC 2025 in Nuremberg. Stefan Buchstaller, Franz Huber, and Stefan Will…
New staff Alexander Fenk

Mr. Alexander Fenk, M.Sc., has been working as a SAOT scholarship holder in the Combustion and Reactive Flows working group…
ILASS Europe 2025

ILASS Europe took place in Lund, Sweden, from September 1 to 4. LTT was represented by Benjamin Klevansky, who gave…
Deutscher Flammentag 2025

This year, the 32. Deutsche Flammentag took place in Paderborn, and the Combustion and Reactive Flows Working Group was represented…
SAOT awards for LTT members

Phillipp Bräuer and Benjamin Klevansky have won the SAOT Innovation Award 2025 for their proposal for a Raman setup for…
New staff Ralph Bissé

Mr Ralph Bissé, Dipl.-Ing. (FH), has been working in the areas of occupational safety and technical organisation at LTT since…
Gordon Research Conference

LTT was also represented with poster contributions at this year’s Gordon Research Conference – Laser Diagnostics in Energy and Reacting…
New publication on high-speed temperature measurement in flames

Knowledge of temperature is central to understanding combustion processes. A new method for temperature measurement has been developed at LTT,…
Stefan Will appointed Fellow of the Combustion Institute

“For outstanding contributions to the development of laser-based measurement techniques for combustion science, particularly regarding soot formation and nanoparticle…
The LTT at the 12th European Combustion Meeting (ECM) in Edinburgh

The LTT was represented at the 12th European Combustion Meeting with several contributions. These included presentations on droplet evaporation, ammonia…
Distinguished Paper Award

We are grateful and proud that our paper “Tomographic single-shot time-resolved laser-induced incandescence for soot characterization in turbulent flames”, which…
New publication: Laser-induced incandescence in spray flame synthesis
Spray flame synthesis (SFS) can be used to produce a variety of metal oxide nanoparticles. In order to better understand…
New doctorate at the LTT

Congratulations to Jonas Bollmann
SAOT-Workshop Combustion Diagnostics

The 35th International SAOT Workshop took place on 23 and 24 September
New publication “Temperature imaging during the hydrogen release reaction from a liquid organic hydrogen carrier (LOHC) system using phosphor thermometry”

In this work, phosphor thermometry was used for the first time as an imaging measurement method
LTT at the 40th Combustion Symposium in Milan

4 participants and contributions represented the LTT at this year's Combustion Symposium
New publication on tomographic soot measurement published

A cooperation with Shanghai Jiao Tong University
LTT at the LII workshop in Muskoka, Canada

LTT was also represented with several contributions at the 10th Workshop on Laser-Induced Incandescence in June 2024.
Successful Third Summer School of the DFG Priority Program “Hetero-Aggregates” (SPP 2289) at LTT in Erlangen

From May 25 to May 29, 2024, the third Summer School of the DFG Priority Program "Hetero-Aggregates" (SPP 2289) took place at the Insitute of Engineering Thermodynamics (LTT), in collaboration with the Institute of Particle Technology (LFG).
LTT at the annual meeting of the DECHEMA, Frankfurt a. Main, Germany

The Institute of Engineering Thermodynamics participated in this year´s annual meeting of the DECHEMA / VDI groups GFSP, KRI, MFA and PMT on February 27 and 28, 2024 in Frankfurt a. Main, Germany with three poster contributions from the Particle Measurement working group.
31st German Flame Day for Sustainable Combustion

The Institute of Engineering Thermodynamics was represented at this year's Flame Day at the TU in Berlin.
LTT at PARTEC 2023 in Nuremberg, Germany

The Institute of Engineering Thermodynamics was attending this year's PARTEC in Nuremberg from 26 to 28 September with two talks from the particle measurement working group.
MegaWATT Research Award 2023 to Florian Bauer

Dr Florian Bauer was awarded the MegaWATT Research Prize at this year's Thermodynamics Colloquium in Hannover.
Samuel Grauer visiting the LTT

Samuel Grauer, Assistant Professor visiting LTT
New publication “Burner-heated dehydrogenation of a liquid organic hydrogen carrier (LOHC) system”

This paper describes the successful use of the exhaust gas stream from a porous burner to provide the heat for the endothermic dehydrogenation of hydrogen-rich LOHCs.
LTT at the European Combustion Meeting in Rouen, France

European Combustion Meeting in Rouen, France
New Publication “2D in situ determination of soot optical band gaps in flames using hyperspectral absorption tomography”

Using a novel approach that combines broadband extinction measurements with tomographic methods, this work demonstrates the first in situ planar determination
New Publication “Development and characterization of a partially premixed hydrogen burner with low NOx emission”

In this work a hydrogen burner was developed, numerically optimized and experimentally characterized.
New research staff Stefan Buchstaller

We would like to welcome Mr. Stefan Buchstaller as a new staff member.
New Publication “Phosphor thermometry in heat transfer fluids and LOHCs”

In this publication, you will find out how temperatures in heat transfer oils or in liquid organic hydrogen carrier (LOHC) systems can be determined using the optical measurement method of phosphor thermometry.
New Publication “Dynamic dehydration of LOHCs by direct heating utililizing a burner”

In this paper, you will learn how the power density and the dynamics of the hydrogen release reaction can be improved via direct heating of the dehydrogenation unit using a porous media burner.
New Promotion

Doctoral thesis "Investigation of Soot Formation by Optical Diagnostics: From Precursor Measurements to 3D Particle Sizing"
New staff member Benjamin Klevansky

New employee in the group Combustion and Reactive Flows introduces himself.
Book “Commonly Asked Questions in Thermodynamics” published in 2nd edition.

With this book, Prof. Stefan Will and his internationally renowned co-authors pursue a concept that complements that of conventional textbooks.
LTT at the LII Workshop in Glasgow and the International Combustion Symposium in Vancouver

After a long Corona-related abstinence, two important conferences finally took place again in presence!
LTT at the Long Night of Sciences 2022

During the Long Night of Sciences on May 21, 2022, the LTT presented two current research projects.
New Publication “Optical bandgap analysis of soot particles”

In this publication you will learn how optical measurement methods (in-situ UV-Vis-NIR extinction and ex-situ Raman spectroscopy) are used to determine the band gaps of soot particles at two different stages during the soot formation process!
New Publication “Temperature measurement in flames with TLAF”

In this publication you will learn how a flexible setup for two-line atomic fluorescence (TLAF) can be used for temperature measurement in flames!
New publication “Determination of droplet and nanoparticle size distributions in spray flame synthesis”

In this publication, you will learn how wide-angle light scattering (WALS) is used to determine the size distributions of microdroplets and nanoparticles of different morphologies (fractal/spherical) in a complex spray flame process!
New staff member Marcel Müller

New employee in the group Particle Measurement introduces himself.
New Publication “Soot Precursors”

In situ characterisation of absorbing species in stationary premixed flat flames using UV–Vis absorption spectroscopy
SAOT Innovation Award 2021 goes to LTT

Florian Bauer and Phillipp Bräuer win this year's €2,000 Innovation Award from SAOT
New Publication “Diesel Additives”

"Impact of Oxygenated Additives on Soot Properties during Diesel Combustion"
New Publication “3D-Particle Sizing”

"Three-dimensional particle size determination in a laminar diffusion flame by tomographic laser-induced incandescence"
New Publication

Pumped thermal energy storage with heat pump-ORC-systems: Comparison of latent and sensible thermal storages for various fluids. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.115940 In…
New Publication “Droplet sizing”

"Droplet sizing in spray flame synthesis using wide-angle light scattering (WALS)"
New staff members at the LTT
The LTT greets it’s new colleagues: Lukas Strauß, M. Sc. (since 01.06.2019), AG Motorische Verbrennung Phillipp Bräuer, M. Sc. (since…
100. Promotion at LTT
Florian Pickl, M. Sc., defended his dissertation 2019 succesfully. First examiner: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Wensing, LTT, FAU Second examiner: Prof.…
New Publication “TEM analysis”
"An optimized evaluation strategy for a comprehensive morphological soot nanoparticle aggregate characterization by electron microscopy"
Wilhelm-Jost-Medaille for PD Dr.-Ing. Lars Zigan

PD Dr.-Ing. Lars Zigan receives the Wilhelm-Jost-Medal of the German Section of the Combustion Institute in recognition of his outstanding…
New Publication
"Can soot primary particle size distributions be determined using laser-induced incandescence?"
New Publication
"Soot aggregate sizing in an extended premixed flame by high-resolution two-dimensional multi-angle light scattering (2D-MALS)"
New Publication

"Soot aggregate sizing in an extended premixed flame by high-resolution two-dimensional multi-angle light scattering (2D-MALS)"
Habilitation at the LTT

PD Dr.-Ing. Lars Zigan completes his habilitation on “Imaging Techniques for Multi-Parameter Determination in Mixture Formation and Combustion Processes” and…
99. Promotion at the LTT
Dipl.-Ing. Moritz Schumacher successfully defended his dissertation in 2019. First examiner: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Wensing, LTT, FAU Second examiner: Prof.…
98. Promotion at the LTT
Dipl.-Ing. Sebastian Bornschlegel successfully defended his dissertation in 2019. First examiner: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Wensing, LTT, FAU Second examiner: Prof.…
LTT at Gordon Research Conference

23. – 28.06.2019: The LTT participates in the Gordon Research Conference on Laser Diagnostics in Energy and Combustion Science in…
European Combustion Meeting 2019

14. – 17. April 2019: The LTT participates in the 9th European Combustion Meeting in Lisbon (Portugal) with posters by…
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