prof.dr.ing. M.B. Franke (Meik)

I studied Chemical Engineering from 1996 to 2001 at the Technical University (TU) Dortmund in Germany and obtained my PhD at the Laboratory of Fluid Separations of Professor Andrzej Górak at the same university.

I worked for over 15 years at Bayer and LANXESS in Germany and China in various positions. During this time, I was involved in process development and investment projects for isocyanate production units as process engineer and project manager. I was responsible as technical plant manager for the maintenance and investments projects of an amine phosgenation unit and as global technology manager for the process improvement of an agrochemical activate ingredient. In my last assignment at Bayer, I was heading the Process Modeling and Design group, which is part of the digital transformation activities providing the Digital Twins for the productions plants of Bayer.

I have been appointed in January 2021 as professor for Process Design and Optimization at the Sustainable Process Technology (SPT) Group at the Faculty of Science and Technology (TNW). My research interest is in the area of advanced process design and optimization including mixed-integer optimization, process optimization under uncertainties, and scheduling of chemical batch plants.

Chemistry

# Biodiesel
# Crystallization

Engineering & Materials Science

# Algae
# Biodiesel
# Cleaning
# Decomposition
# Nonlinear Programming

Earth & Environmental Sciences

# Distillation

Faculty of Science and Technology (TNW), Sustainable Process Technology (SPT)

Huynh, T. A. , Franke, M. B. , & Zondervan, E. (2024). Development of a superstructure optimization framework with heat integration for the production of biodiesel. Chemical Product and Process Modeling. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1515/cppm-2023-0071

Raeisi, M., Huang, J. , Franke, M. B. , & Zondervan, E. (2023). Valuable bioproducts from microalgae: A superstructure optimization approach. Algal research, 75, Article 103259. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.algal.2023.103259

Wallrath, R., Seeanner, F., Lampe, M. , & Franke, M. B. (2023). A time-bucket MILP formulation for optimal lot-sizing and scheduling of real-world chemical batch plants. Computers and Chemical Engineering, 177, Article 108341. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compchemeng.2023.108341

Wallrath, R., Seanner, F., Lampe, M. , & Franke, M. (2023). A new time-bucket MILP formulation for optimal lot-sizing and scheduling of an industrial make-and-fill process. In 33rd European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering (pp. 1853-1859). (Computer Aided Chemical Engineering; Vol. 52). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-15274-0.50294-8

Shehab, M., Moshammer, K. , Franke, M. , & Zondervan, E. (2023). Analysis of the Potential of Meeting the EU’s Sustainable Aviation Fuel Targets in 2030 and 2050. Sustainability (Switzerland), 15(12), Article 9266. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15129266

Lewin, D. R. , Zondervan, E. , Franke, M. , Kiss, A. A., Krämer, S., Pérez-Fortes, M., Schweidtmann, A. M., (Ellen) Slegers, P. M., Somoza-Tornos, A., Swinkels, P. L. J., & Wentink, B. (2023). An Educational Workshop for Effective PSE Course Development. In 33rd European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering (pp. 3495-3500). (Computer Aided Chemical Engineering; Vol. 52). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-15274-0.50558-8

Raeisi, M. (2023). Sustainable production pathways for added-value products from microalgae: A superstructure optimization approach. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036555692

Huynh, T. A., Rossi, M. , Raeisi, M. , Franke, M. B., Manenti, F. , & Zondervan, E. (2022). Promising future for biodiesel: Superstructure optimization from feed to fuel. In Computer Aided Chemical Engineering (pp. 595-600). (Computer Aided Chemical Engineering; Vol. 51). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95879-0.50100-4

Raeisi, M. , Huynh, T. A. , Franke, M. B. , & Zondervan, E. (2022). Superstructure optimization for sustainable design of an algae biorefinery. In Computer Aided Chemical Engineering (pp. 637-642). (Computer Aided Chemical Engineering; Vol. 51). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95879-0.50107-7

Raeisi, M., Huang, J. , Huynh, T. A. , Franke, M. B. , & Zondervan, E. (2022). Superstructure Optimization for the Design of an Algae Biorefinery Producing Added Value Products. In Computer Aided Chemical Engineering (pp. 277-282). (Computer Aided Chemical Engineering; Vol. 49). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-85159-6.50046-4

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