Location & approach

By Car

The campus of the Technical University of Dortmund is located near the freeway junction Dortmund West, where the Sauerland line A45 crosses the Ruhr expressway B1/A40. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to the South Campus, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 leads to the North Campus. The university is signposted at both exits.

By bus and train

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S-Bahn line S1 runs every 15 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen and Duisburg. In addition, the university can be reached by bus lines 445, 447 and 462. Timetable information can be found on the homepage of the Rhine-Ruhr Transport Association, and DSW21 also offer an interactive route network map.

The H-Bahn

One of the landmarks of the TU Dortmund is the H-Bahn. Line 1 runs every 10 minutes between Dortmund Eichlinghofen and the Technology Center via Campus South and Dortmund University S, while Line 2 commutes every 5 minutes between Campus North and Campus South. It covers this distance in two minutes.

By Airplane

From Dortmund Airport, the AirportExpress takes just over 20 minutes to Dortmund's main train station, and from there, the S-Bahn takes you to the university. A wider range of international flight connections is offered by Düsseldorf Airport, about 60 kilometers away, which can be reached directly by S-Bahn from the university's train station.

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Location & approach

By Car

The campus of the Technical University of Dortmund is located near the freeway junction Dortmund West, where the Sauerland line A45 crosses the Ruhr expressway B1/A40. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to the South Campus, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 leads to the North Campus. The university is signposted at both exits.

By bus and train

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S-Bahn line S1 runs every 15 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen and Duisburg. In addition, the university can be reached by bus lines 445, 447 and 462. Timetable information can be found on the homepage of the Rhine-Ruhr Transport Association, and DSW21 also offer an interactive route network map.

The H-Bahn

One of the landmarks of the TU Dortmund is the H-Bahn. Line 1 runs every 10 minutes between Dortmund Eichlinghofen and the Technology Center via Campus South and Dortmund University S, while Line 2 commutes every 5 minutes between Campus North and Campus South. It covers this distance in two minutes.

By Airplane

From Dortmund Airport, the AirportExpress takes just over 20 minutes to Dortmund's main train station, and from there, the S-Bahn takes you to the university. A wider range of international flight connections is offered by Düsseldorf Airport, about 60 kilometers away, which can be reached directly by S-Bahn from the university's train station.

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Conceptual Design

Oral examination date registration from 21.-28. January 2025 possible via Moodle.

Laboratory of

Plant and Process Design

BCI building surrounded by trees

Welcome to the Laboratory of Plant and Process Design. The group has been established in October 2005 under the direction of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerhard Schembecker within the Department of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering of the TU Dortmund.

Our research focuses on innovative and sustainable downstream processing for the purification of chemical and biotechnological products. The technologies under research include Centrifugal Partition Chromatography (CPC), Continuous Centrifugal Extraction (CCE) and Continuous Crystallization. Different innovative crystallizer concepts like the slug flow crystallizer (SFC), Archimedes Tube crystallizer (ATC) or Taylor Couette crystallizer (TCC) are developed and optimized. Continuous particle isolation within the patented Continuous Vacuum Screw FIlter (CVSF) complete the crystal process chain resulting in free-flowing particles. Our aim is also to make a contribution to the circular economy, for example by dealing with the treatment of waste water or the recycling of waste products.

Our processes can be used in a wide range of industrial sectors such as biotechnology or the pharmaceutical/fine chemicals industry and are not limited to specific products, as we develop a fundamental understanding of the processes involved.

The Laboratory of Plant and Process Design is involved in teaching on the topics of plants and processes, steady state simulation, technical chromatography and crystallization for the Bachelor and Master programs of the Department of Bichemical and Chemical Engineering.

APT at AUFBRUCH Winterschool

APT participates at the first AUFBRUCH winter school

Doctoral thesis defense by Anne Cathrine Kufner

On Monday, 25.11.2024 Anne Cathrine Kufner successfully defended his doctoral thesis.

Poster by Maximilan Kattner chosen as best

Successful poster presentation at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the SPP 2364

1st Place Poster Session for Ronja Heming

Congratulations to Ronja Heming