Short Presentation
Tobias Hubach studied Bachelor of Science Chemical Engineering at TU Dortmund University from 2014 – 2019 and Master of Science Chemical Engineering at TU Dortmund University from 2019 - 2020. He graduated with the master thesis “Towards a predictive machine learning tool for catalyst rejection in organic solvent nanofiltration”.
From February 2021 till January 2023 he worked as a Ph.D. student at the Laboratory of Fluid Separations at TU Dortmund University. The focus of his research was the development of a hybrid separation process to separate metal ions from aqueous solutions.
Poster Presentations
May 2022 - Best Poster award for the poster entitled: "Li/Mg and Li/Ca separation from simulated seawater by nanofiltration" at the Jahrestreffen der ProcessNet-Fachgruppen Extraktion, Phytoextrakte und Membrantechnik in Frankfurt/Main.
May 2022 - Poster entitled: "Experimental investigation of liquid-liquid extraction of lithium ions in the concentration range of seawater using tributyl phosphate and an ionic tetracyanoborate liquid as extractant" at the Jahrestreffen der ProcessNet-Fachgruppen Extraktion, Phytoextrakte und Membrantechnik in Frankfurt/Main.
April 2023 - Best Poster award for the poster entitled: "Salt influence on membrane-assisted lithium separation from seawater" at the Imagine Membranes conference on the Azores, Portugal.
Oral presentations
Salt influence on membrane-assisted lithium separation from seawater
14th European Congress of Chemical Engineering (2023), Berlin
Publications
[1] Hubach, Tobias; Schlüter, Stefan; Held, Christoph (2023): Model-Based Optimization of Multi-Stage Nanofiltration Using the Solution-Diffusion–Electromigration Model. In: Processes 11 (8), S. 2355. DOI: 10.3390/pr11082355
[2] Hubach, Tobias; Pillath, Marcel; Knaup, Clemens; Schlüter, Stefan; Held, Christoph (2023): Li+ Separation from Multi-Ionic Mixtures by Nanofiltration Membranes: Experiments and Modeling. In: Modelling 4 (3), S. 408–425. DOI: 10.3390/modelling4030024
[3] G. Yu, X. Zhang, T. Hubach, B. Chen, C. Held (2023): Highly efficient lithium extraction from magnesium-rich brines with ionic liquid-based collaborative extractants: Thermodynamics and molecular insights. In: Chemical Engineering Science 2023, 119682. DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2023.119682