PD Dr.-Ing. habil. Marco Mancini

Academic Career

Since 2001	Research Assistant at the Institute for Energy Process Engineering and Fuel Technology at Clausthal University of Technology
2019	Habilitation at Clausthal University of Technology
2007	Ph.D. from Clausthal University of Technology
2000–2001	Researcher at the International Flame Research Foundation in IJmuiden (Netherlands)
1997–2000	Researcher at the ENEL Research Center in Pisa (Italy)
1997	M.Sc. in Physics with a focus on Theoretical Physics from the University of Pisa in Pisa (Italy)

Responsibilities at the Institute

Research Topics

Numerical modeling and simulation of degassing and burn-out behavior of lignite
Numerical modeling and simulations of radiation using LBL, WSGGM, or Mie theory
Numerical modeling and simulation of gasification processes in fluidized-bed gasifiers (former HVIGasTech project, conducted in collaboration with KIT EBI ceb and KIT ITC vgt)
Numerical modeling and simulations of combustion processes in the high-pressure combustion chambers of a compressed air storage power plant (Huntorf2020 project, in collaboration with TUC IEE and uniper)
Numerical modeling and simulation of coking processes

Former Research Topics

Numerical modeling and simulation of the interactions between turbulence and chemical reactions
Numerical modeling and simulation of NOx emissions in MILD combustion of gas and coal

Teaching Activities

Instructor for the lecture and lab course “Energy Systems” (Lecturer)
Instructor for the lecture and lab course "Reactive Flows in High-Temperature Engineering" (Lecturer)
Instructor for the lecture and lab on Thermal Processes in Power Plants (Lecturer)
Supervision of Theses

Dissertation Topic

Analysis of mild combustion of natural gas with preheated air

Habilitation thesis topic

Modeling of solid fuel conversion processes for CFD applications

Publications

Publications

Publications (Link to Google Scholar)