History of the institute

1966	Foundation of the chair and institute. Accommodation in offices of the old refectory. Head of the institute: Prof. Dr.-Ing. E. Blaß
1967	Move into rooms in the new building of the Institute of Foundry Engineering. Start of planning for an independent institute building.
1972	Start of construction work.
1974	Move into the new building at Leibnizstraße 15.
1976	Prof. Dr.-Ing. E. Blaß receives a call to the TU Munich.
1977	Prof. Dr.-Ing. A. Vogelpohl from Karlsruhe takes over the management of the institute. Research activities 1977-2006 The initial focus was on the modeling of rectification in packed columns using the Stefan-Maxwell equation to describe mass transfer and the verification of the theoretical results on a packed column as well as experimental studies on fluid dynamics in pulsed liquid-liquid extraction columns and the development of design methods for such columns. A new focus was the development of high-performance reactors for the purification of industrial wastewater and their modeling.
2006	Prof. Dr.-Ing. Strube becomes the new Institute Director following the retirement of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Vogelpohl.