Roman Gutt

Research Associate

Bergische Universität Wuppertal

Fakultät für Maschinenbau und Sicherheitstechnik

Maschinenbau

Gaußstraße 20, 42119 Wuppertal

Room: W.11.107

Phone: +49 (202) 439-2027

Fax: +49 (202) 439-3251

Email: rgutt{at}uni-wuppertal.de

Roman Gutt is part of the project team FlexTherm which deals with the increasing demands of the aluminum industry for the optimization of the Hall-Héroult process in terms of heat balance. The goal of the project is to create and validate a numerical model in the open source OpenFOAM® framework. The numerical model aims to investigate the influence of an inconsistent current on the heat balance, the impact of a reduced temperature on the solubility of alumina and the effect of a different anode geometry on the heat balance. The project is funded by the European Union and is a co-operational work with TRIMET Aluminium SE. Other cooperation partners are different chairs from the BUW, the Wuppertal Institut für Klima and the Light Metals Research Center of the University of Auckland (NZ).