Job
Research associate
Field of work
Since 2008, Dr.-Ing. Claudia Kirsten is responsible for the research and development of alternative, high-quality solid biofuels in the working group Innovative Solid Biofuels. She has been involved in numerous national and international projects focussing particularly on optimising the product properties and the production process of densified biogenic residues and wastes. Accordingly, she is the scientific contact person for the fuel conditioning lab at DBFZ.
Keywords
Fuel pre-treatment, pelleting, briquetting, mechanical process engineering, process optimisation, design of experiments
My publications
Curriculum vitae
| 01/2011 – 11/2021 | TU Berlin/TU Bergakademie Freiberg Part-time PhD Topic: Contribution to optimising the pelletising behaviour of digestate and landscape hay and their mixtures |
| Since 06/2018 | DBFZ Deputy head in the working group Innovative Solid Biofuels |
| Since 01/2015 | DBFZ Research associate in the working group Innovative Solid Biofuels in the department Thermo-chemical Conversion. Main focus: Development of solid biofuels, planning and implementation of mechanical fuel processing methods, coordination of the fuel conditioning lab |
| 01/2012 - 12/2014 | TU Bergakademie Freiberg and DBFZ ESF-funded industrial Ph.D. scholarship |
| 08/2008 - 12/2011 | DBFZ Research associate in the working group Innovative Solid Biofuels in the department Thermo-chemical Conversion. Main focus: Planning and implementation of mechanical fuel pre-treatment processes for the production of biomass pellets, set-up of fuel condition lab at DBFZ |
| 05/2007 – 07/2008 | TU Dresden Research associate at the Institute for Food and Bioprocess Engineering Main focus: Enzyme production in fermentation processes and mechanical modification of biogenic raw materials |
| 10/2001 - 04/2007 | TU Bergakademie Freiberg Study of process engineering with focus on chemical-biological process engineering |