Virtuhcon

VIRTUHCON is the name of a research centre at Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany. The centre was founded within the framework of the Entrepreunerial Regions Initiative "Centres of Innovation Competence: Create Excellence - Foster Talents" from the BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research) and will start working in 2009. Virtuhcon is the acronym for Virtual High Temperature Conversion Processes.

The centre was initiated by eight departments of TU Bergakademie Freiberg: Institute for Energy Process Engineering and Chemical Engineering, Institute for Nonferrous Metallurgy and Purest Substances, Institute for Iron and Steel Technology, Institute for Materials Science, Institute of Heat Engineering and Thermodynamics, Institute for Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics, Institute for Computer Sciences and Institute for Numerical Mathematics and Optimization.

Virtuhcon is focussing on basic research in the field of partial oxidation processes in the primary industry.

External links

* [http://www.virtuhcon.de/ VIRTUHCON Homepage]