Advanced Separation Processes
Welcome to Advanced Separation Processes, the research group of Malte Kaspereit at the Institute for Separation Science and Technology (TVT) in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (CBI) of FAU.
We develop novel and advanced technologies for the most challenging separation and purification problems in chemical, pharmaceutical, and biotechnological applications. Special focus is on powerful separation technologies like preparative chromatography, membrane-based processes, gas adsorption, and combinations thereof. In our work, we combine state-of-the-art experimental technqiues, fundamental engineering methodologies, and advanced methods for process modelling and optimization. With our approach, we aim at devising clever and performant processes that contribute to establishing more sustainable process solutions in the mentioned industrial fields. Please check out our research pages for more information.
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We are happy to share our recent open access paper on the isolation of individual homologs of polyethylene glycol (PEG) by preparative reversed-phase chromatography. Building upon a previously developed thermodynamic model, we were able to describe accurately the retention times of individual homolo...
We are pleased to announce our new open access work on using chromatography for producing highly defined nanomaterials. Specifically, we developed a special operating mode, alternate pumping, for obtaining small, atomically precise glutathione-stabilized gold nanoclusters at high purity from synthes...
We are happy to welcome Johannes Wieczorek, M.Sc., in our group! Johannes Wieczorek studied Life Science Engineering at FAU. He is currently finishing his master thesis on Modelling and optimization of chromatographic processes for the isolation of pure PEG homologs under co-supervision of Malvina S...
For her poster "Development of Preparative Chromatographic Processes for the Isolation of Pure PEG Homologs", Malvina Supper received one of three "Best Poster Awards" at the 18th International Symposium on Preparative and Industrial Chromatography and Allied Techniques (SPICA 2022, Oct 11-14, 2022)...
A dedicated session was organized for the honor of Prof. Andreas Seidel-Morgenstern (Max Planck Institute, Magdeburg, Germany) at this year's AIChE Annual Meeting in Phoenix/Arizona (USA). The Area Plenary: Adsorption and Ion Exchange acknowledged the important contributions of Andreas Seidel-Morgen...
Malte Kaspereit (co-authors Malvina Supper, Lukas Gromotka, Wolfgang Peukert) gave a presentation entitled "Development of Preparative Chromatographic Processes for the Classification of Nanoparticles" at the 18th International Symposium on Preparative and Industrial Chromatography and Allied Techni...
In a new open-access publication, we present results of our long-lasting investigations on the chromatographic separation of polyethylene glycols (PEGs). Syntheses of polymers like PEGs always yield products with a distribution of molar weights. The broader such distribution, the less defined are th...
