Research

The Institute of Mechanical Process Engineering (IMVT) is part of Faculty 4 "Energy-, Process- and Bio-Engineering" at the University of Stuttgart. The purpose of the institute is to represent and support the subject areas of mechanical process engineering and fluid dynamics in education and research, particularly in the degree programs "Chemical and Biological Engineering"  and "Process Engineering".

The institute's research activities relate to the analysis and synthesis of material conversion processes, process intensification and product design in the unit operations of process engineering, i.e. separation, mixing, crushing and pulverization, atomization, emulsification, dispersion and agglomeration. The focus is set on the integration of physical and mathematical models, computational fluid dynamics as well as on particle and flow measurement technology for the investigation and experimental verification of micro- and macro-scale phenomena in single- and multi-phase flows, in single- and multi-component systems and in conjunction with heat- and mass-transport phenomena.