Horst Complex

ir. E.A. Bramer (Eddy)

Assistant Professor
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Horst Complex N246
e.a.bramer@utwente.nl
+31534892597
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I am an assistant professor in the Laboratory of Thermal Engineering. In 1991 002, I received the MSc degree in Chemical Engineering at University of Twente. My master research was on NOx formation and destruction during fluid bed combustion of coal. 

I’m employed at The University since 1983. I have worked in the field of fluidized bed combustion of the coal, biomass and industrial waste, with the focus on the combustion process and the related gaseous emissions. In a later stage I worked on the development of the Rotational Particle Separator (RPS) as a new patented device for separation of (sub) micron particles from gases. Also the use of the cyclone separator from the RPS as reactor for the removal of gaseous emissions like HCl and SO2 was developed.

In the last period I worked on the development of the patented PyRos reactor. A cyclonic pyrolysis reactor based on the RPS. A pilot scale pyrolysis plant with a throughput of 50 kg/hr was developed, build and tested within the Thermal Engineering laboratory. Also research is been conducted on the production of high quality green biofuels from biomass waste streams using thermal separation methods such as Hydrothermal Carbonization, gasification and pyrolysis. Next to that research was is carried out on the pyrolitic recovery of Carbon Black from recycled rubber and minirals from paper sludge.  

I guide bachelor and master students at with their final assignment within the group,  with the focus on thermal conversion of biomass and waste: Combustion, Gasification, Pyrolysis and Torrefaction are the processes studied. Also the daily guidance of PdEng and PhD students is a part of my job.   

I’m the teacher and coordinator of the master courses, Energy from Biomass, Process Equipment Design and the bachelor courses Energy and Materials and Energy Sustainability. I’m teacher in Basics for Process Design.  

Expertise

  • Chemistry

    • Biomass
    • Procedure
    • Reaction Temperature
    • Water Type
    • Hydrothermal Carbonization

  • Chemical Engineering

    • Temperature
    • Water
    • Pyrolysis

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Publications

2025

A comprehensive study on the effect of the pyrolysis temperature on the products of the flash pyrolysis of waste tires (2025)Journal of environmental chemical engineering, 13(2). Article 115468. Ramani, B., Anjum, A., Bramer, E., Dierkes, W., Blume, A. & Brem, G.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2025.115468

2024

Flash Pyrolysis of Waste Tires in an Entrained Flow Reactor-An Experimental Study (2024)Polymers, 16(12). Article 1746. Ramani, B., Anjum, A., Bramer, E., Dierkes, W. K., Blume, A. & Brem, G.https://doi.org/10.3390/polym16121746

2023

Recovery of chemical energy from retentates from cascade membrane filtration of hydrothermal carbonisation effluent (2023)Energy Journal, 284. Article 128524. Urbanowska, A., Niedzwiecki, Ł., Wnukowski, M., Aragón-Briceño, C. I., Kabsch-Korbutowicz, M., Baranowski, M., Czerep, M., Seruga, P., Pawlak-Kruczek, H., Bramer, E., Brem, G. & Pozarlik, A. K.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2023.128524Hydrothermal Carbonisation as Treatment for Effective Moisture Removal from Digestate—Mechanical Dewatering, Flashing-Off, and Condensates’ Processing (2023)Energies, 16(13). Article 5102. Pawlak-Kruczek, H., Urbanowska, A., Niedzwiecki, Ł., Czerep, M., Baranowski, M., Aragón-Briceño, C. I., Kabsch-Korbutowicz, M., Arora, A., Seruga, P., Wnukowski, M., Mularski, J., Bramer, E., Brem, G. & Pozarlik, A. K.https://doi.org/10.3390/en16135102Influence of Hydrothermal Carbonization on Catalytic Fast Pyrolysis of Agricultural Biomass (2023)Applied Sciences, 13(7). Article 4190. Niedzwiecki, L. K., Moscicki, K., Bijl, A., Owczarek, P., Arora, A., Wnukowski, M., Aragón-Briceño, C. I., Vishwajeet, Pawlak-Kruczek, H., Bramer, E., Brem, G. & Pozarlik, A. K.https://doi.org/10.3390/app13074190

2022

Influence of sulfur in pyrolytic carbon black on in-rubber properties (2022)[Contribution to conference › Paper] 200th Technical Meeting of the Rubber Division, ACS 2022. Dierkes, W. K., Anjum, A., Noordermeer, J. W. M., Blume, A., Ramani, B., Bramer, E. & Brem, G.Flash Pyrolysis of Tires: Process Development for Upcycling Waste Tires (2022)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente. Ramani, B.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036553834Hydrotalcite as a deoxygenation catalyst in fast pyrolysis of biomass for the production of high quality bio-oil (2022)Journal of analytical and applied pyrolysis, 161. Article 105431. Mysore Prabhakara, H., Bramer, E. A. & Brem, G.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaap.2022.105431Integration of hydrothermal carbonization treatment for water and energy recovery from organic fraction of municipal solid waste digestate (2022)Renewable energy, 184, 577-591. Aragón-Briceño, C. I., Pozarlik, A. K., Bramer, E., Brem, G., Wang, S., Wen, Y., Yang, W., Pawlak-Kruczek, H., Niedzwiecki, L. K., Urbanowska, A., Mościcki, K. & Płoszczyca, M.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2021.11.106

2021

Role of dolomite as an in-situ CO2 sorbent and deoxygenation catalyst in fast pyrolysis of beechwood in a bench scale fluidized bed reactor (2021)Fuel processing technology, 224. Article 107029. Mysore Prabhakara, H., Bramer, E. & Brem, G.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuproc.2021.107029

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