About CSTR

CSTR — Steinbeis Transfer Center

CSTR is a transfer center of the Steinbeis Foundation for Economic Development, which has specialised since its foundation in 2015 in research-related services and the engineering consultancy for industrial clients in the design and analysis of processes and plants.

Critical deviations of process variables from normal operation, damage fires and explosions can have serious effects on people, equipment and the continued existence of a company. Apart from serious personnel injury and property damage high losses due to production interruption emerge, with about one-third of the companies concerned no longer recover economically.

Often, damage events are a matter of preventing conditions favourable for incidents, and catastrophic effects can also be reduced by applying protective measures.

Therefore, it is now state of the art to analyze processes and systems with safety studies and laboratory tests of the substances or mixtures used for critical conditions and their consequences. As a result, even in complex structures problematic processes or configurations can be reliably detected and prevented by the measures determined or the extent of damage can be limited to an acceptable level.

In addition to safe operation, the optimum design and operation of process plants and processes are important target functions. This achieves maximum product yield with minimal use of energy and starting material. For this purpose, CSTR offers modern software tools.

Head of transfer center

Prof. Ulrich Krause

Prof. Ulrich Krause - Leiter von CSTR

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1980 - 1985: Studies in fluid mechanics and technical thermodynamics at Technical University Dresden

1985 - 1989: research assistant at Dept. of Thermodynamics at TU Dresden

1989: Doctorate in Dr.-Ing. with the topic “Investigations on the one-dimensional non-equilibrium two-phase flow”

1990 - 1991: researcher at the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Research Center for Mechanization and Energy Application

1991 - 2005: senior researcher and project manager at the BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing

2005 - 2006: Head of the working group “Combustible bulk materials and dusts, solid fuels” at BAM

2006 - 2011: Head of Section 7.3 “Fire Engineering” of BAM

since 04/2011: Full professor and Head of Department of Systems Engineering and Plant Safety at the Otto von Guericke University