Dr Andreas Apfelbacher

Research Fellow

Profile
Andreas studied Chemistry at the University in Regensburg, Germany, where he graduated in 2000 in Organometalic Chemistry. His research topic was enantioselective in situ catalysis with Rhodium carborane complexes. After a post doc stay at the Universite Louis Pasteur in Strasburg, France until 2002 he joined the Department of Technical Chemistry at the Research Centre of Karlsruhe, Germany, where he expanded his technical and engineering skills. At The Research Centre of Karlsruhe Andreas worked on catalytic degradation of tar, biomass pyrolysis and the analysis of pyrolysis liquids and gases. His main working topic was intermediate pyrolysis via a Haloclean reactor in lab and pilot scale.

Andreas joined the Bioenergy Research Group at Aston University in January 2008. His research is in pyrolysis of biomass with fluidized bed reactors and haloclean reactors. Andreas will also be responsible for the analysis of pyrolysis liquids and gases.

Qualifications & Education
Dipl. Chem, Dr. rer. nat.

Selected publications

A. Hornung, A. Apfelbacher, F. Richter, H. Seifert. Thermo-Chemical Conversion of Energy Crops - Haloclean -Intermediate Pyrolysis, 15th Annual International Conference On Composites/Nano Engineering, (ICCE-15), Hainan, China, 15-21 July 2007.

A. Hornung, A. Apfelbacher, F. Richter, H. Seifert. Thermo-Chemical Conversion of Energy Crops - Haloclean -Intermediate Pyrolysis , 6th Internat. Congress Valorisation and Recycling of Industrial Waste (VARIREI, 2007), L'Aquila, I, 27-28. 06. 2007.

A. Hornung, A. Apfelbacher, H. Seifert, V. Tumiatti, F. Lenzi. Thermo-chemical conversion of biomass. Haloclean - intermediate pyrolysis, Synthetic Biofuels from Wood, Graz, A, November 22-23, 2006.

A. Hornung, A. Apfelbacher, H. Seifert, V. Tumiatti, F. Lenz. Thermo-chemical conversion of biomass. Haloclean - intermediate pyrolysis, Workshop on EU/Asia Science and Technology Cooperation Clean Prodcution and Nanotechnologies, Seoul, Korea, October 25-26, 2006.

A. Hornung, A. Apfelbacher, F. Richter, J. Schöner, H. Leibold, H. Seifert. Thermo-chemical conversion of straw - Haloclean - intermediate pyrolysis, 17th Internat.Symp.on Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, Budapest, H, May 21-26, 2006.

A. Apfelbacher. Thermo-chemical conversion of straw - Haloclean an optimised low temperature pyrolysis. 14th European Biomass Conf. and Exhibition, Biomass for Energy, Industry and Climate Protection, Paris, F, October 17-21, 2005.

A. Hornung, A. Apfelbacher, H. Seifert. Thermo-chemical conversion of straw - Haloclean; a performance enhanced low temperature pyrolysis. Verbrennung und Feuerungen: 22.Deutscher Flammentag, Braunschweig, 21.-22. September 2005, Düsseldorf : VDI-Verl., 2005, S.599-604.

A. Hornung, A. Apfelbacher, W. Koch, H. Seifert, V. Tumiatti.Thermo-chemische Umwandlung von Stroh durch das Haloclean-Verfahren. GVC/DECHEMA Jahrestagungen 2005, Wiesbaden, 6.-8.September 2005 Chemie Ingenieur Technik, 77 (2005) S.1154 (Abstract).

A. Apfelbacher, A. Hornung, F. Lenzi, H. Seifert. Charakterisierung der Produkte aus der Pyrolyse von Biomasse. Interne Arbeitssitzung des VDI-GVC-Fachausschusses Hochtemperaturtechnik, Düsseldorf, 14.-15.Februar 2005.

A. Apfelbacher, P. Braunstein, L. Brissieux, R. Welter. New phosphino-oxazoline and related phosphino-imidazolate palladium complexes; structure of an unusual zwitterionic dinuclear Pd(II) complex. J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans, 2003, (9), 1669 - 1674.

H. Brunner, A. Apfelbacher, M. Zabel. Enantioselective Catalysis; 136: "Palladium and Rhodium Complexes with Planar Chiral Carborane", Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2001, 917-924.