Laboratory of Engineering Thermodynamics (LTD)

Director

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Fabian Jirasek

Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering
Laboratory of Engineering Thermodynamics
RPTU Kaiserslautern
Erwin-Schrödinger-Straße 44
Building 44/413
67663 Kaiserslautern
Phone.: +49(0)631 205-4685
Fax: +49(0)631 205-3835
E-Mail: fabian.jirasek@rptu.de

Research Focus

  • Thermodynamic properties: experiment, modeling, simulation
  • Design and optimization of chemical processes
  • Monitoring and automation of chemical process plants
  • NMR spectroscopy of complex mixtures
  • Development of hybrid models by combining machine learning and physical knowledge
  • Interpretability and explainability of machine learning
  • Design of experiment and active learning

Teaching

Winter Term

  •  Energieverfahrenstechnik
  •  Wärmeübertragung

Summer Term

  • Maschinelles Lernen in der Verfahrenstechnik

Office Hours

  • Please contact me by email to make an appointment.

Publications

Link to Google Scholar

Career

since
10/2024		Director of the Laboratory of Engineering Thermodynamics (LTD), RPTU Kaiserslautern

09/2020 -
09/2024

CZS Junior Professor of Machine Learning in Process Engineering, RPTU Kaiserslautern
04/2020 - 08/2020Postdoc, Laboratory of Chemical Process Engineering, TU Munich (TUM)
08/2019 - 03/2020Postdoc, Department of Computer Science, University of California Irvine (UCI) 
06/2019PhD in Engineering with the Dissertation "Thermodynamic Modeling of Complex and Poorly Specified Mixtures", TU Kaiserslautern
01/2015 - 07/2019PhD Student, Laboratory of Engineering Thermodynamics (LTD), TU Kaiserslautern
07/2014 - 10/2014Scientific Assistant, Institute of Technical Thermodynamics and Refigeration (ITTK), Karlsruhe Institut of Technology (KIT)
10/2008 - 06/2014Studies in Biochemical Engineering, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)