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machhammer consulting
Finding the best solutions requires a sound problem analysis.
Over 35 years of professional experience as a process engineer with a PhD - working in various roles and areas of research and development as well as a consultant - build a solid foundation for the range of services offered by my consulting activities.
Creativity, mastery of the fundamentals, and a strong focus on profitability are keys to elegant, simple and occasionally unconventional solutions that can create added value for your company.
I am assisted by excellent associated partners:
Peter Zehner, Hans-Jürgen Maaß, Cord Dustmann, Günther Huber and Ingo Janisch.
Industry focus
Areas of Expertise:
Production processes for basic chemicals
Thermal separation processes
Process simulation
Process chain analysis
Experimental techniques
Economic evaluation
Workshops
Chemistry
Services:
- Development of new processes
- Optimization of existing processes
- Solution of technical operating problems
- Process chain analysis
- Technology workshops
- Technology assessment for investors
- Development of new processes
- Optimization of existing processes
- Solution of technical operating problems
- Process chain analysis
- Technology workshops
- Technology assessment for investors
Background experience:
25 years with BASF, thereof:
- 6 years technical development with focus on "liquid / liquid extraction" and "phase separation", including 3 years as head of department
- 1 year management of the technical center for miniplants
- 8 years process development for chemical processes, 2 years thereof as head of a research group for process development and reaction technology
- 6 years technical development with focus on "liquid / liquid extraction" and "phase separation", including 3 years as head of department
- 1 year management of the technical center for miniplants
- 8 years process development for chemical processes, 2 years thereof as head of a research group for process development and reaction technology
Energy & Water
Services:
- Technology assessment for investors
- Economic / ecological technology assessment of conventional and new technologies
- In addition, creation of easy-to-use programs in Excel for parameter variation done by the customer himself
- Technology assessment for investors
- Economic / ecological technology assessment of conventional and new technologies
- In addition, creation of easy-to-use programs in Excel for parameter variation done by the customer himself
Background experience:
- 10 years responsible for "Opportunity Finding" at BASF (creating and evaluating new research approaches)
- Developing tools to evaluate new technologies
- 12 years as a consultant, including with BASF New Business in the field of "Scouting and Evaluation"
- 10 years responsible for "Opportunity Finding" at BASF (creating and evaluating new research approaches)
- Developing tools to evaluate new technologies
- 12 years as a consultant, including with BASF New Business in the field of "Scouting and Evaluation"
References
Over 120 patent applications in the fields of:
- Thermal separation processes such as extraction, phase separation
- Chemical processes such as acrylic acid, propane dehydrogenation, methane pyrolysis
- Physical processes such as solar freshwater production
- New apparatus such as autothermal dehydrogenation reactor
- Processes for the energy transition
- Thermal separation processes such as extraction, phase separation
- Chemical processes such as acrylic acid, propane dehydrogenation, methane pyrolysis
- Physical processes such as solar freshwater production
- New apparatus such as autothermal dehydrogenation reactor
- Processes for the energy transition
You can find my patents under the following links:
The following companies have used or are using my services:
Publications in the following fields:
Liquid membrane technology
Liquid / liquid extraction
salt systems
Thermodynamic representation of salt systems
process integration
Raw material change
energy transition
fuels
electricity storage
Liquid membrane technology
Liquid / liquid extraction
salt systems
Thermodynamic representation of salt systems
process integration
Raw material change
energy transition
fuels
electricity storage
- Liquid membrane technology
(Dissertation 1986 / RWTH Aachen)
- Processing ammonia-containing wastewater - process and cost comparison
(Chemie Ingenieur Technik 1/1988 WILEY-VCH Verlag)
- The McCabe-Thiele diagram in Reactive Extraction
(Chemie Ingenieur Technik 3/1994 WILEY-VCH Verlag
- Theme booklet Energiewende (Chemie Ingenieur Technik 4/2015 WILEY-VCH Verlag)
Theme booklet Raw Material Change
(Chemie Ingenieur Technik 5/2007 WILEY-VCH Verlag)
Theme booklet Raw material change in the chemical industry
(Chemie Ingenieur Technik 5/2007 WILEY-VCH Verlag)
Target Costing electricity storage
(Chemie Ingenieur Technik 1-2 / 2018 WILEY-VCH Verlag)
Generation of electricity and liquid fuels with low carbon footprint
(Chemie Ingenieur Technik 1-2 / 2018 WILEY-VCH Verlag)
Sun or wind: which is the better energy source for power to x
(Chemie Ingenieur Technik 4 / 2021 WILEY-VCH Verlag) - Renewable electricity from Germany or e-fuels from Chile: what should future mobility be based on?
(Chemie Ingenieur Technik 4 / 2021 WILEY-VCH Verlag)
- Energy transport over long distances
(Chemie Ingenieur Technik 4 / 2021 WILEY-VCH Verlag)
- Concept of a self-sufficient electrical and thermal energy supply based on photovoltaics
(Chemie Ingenieur Technik 4 / 2021 WILEY-VCH Verlag)
- Hydrogen transport in natural gas pipelines
(Chemie Ingenieur Technik 4 / 2021 WILEY-VCH Verlag)
- Financial and Ecological Evaluation of Hydrogen Production Processes on Large Scale
(Chemical Engineering Technology 2016, 39, No.6, 1185-1193, Wiley-Vch Verlag)
Hydrogen as the basis for mobility with a low carbon footprint: from a fundamental, technological, economic and ecological perspective (Internationaler Motorenkongress 2019, pp 271-292, Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH)
- How expensive locomotion is
Nachrichten aus der Chemie, 69, November 2021, 34 - 37, www.gdch.de/nachrichten
- Liquid membrane technology
(Dissertation 1986 / RWTH Aachen) - Processing ammonia-containing wastewater - process and cost comparison
(Chemie Ingenieur Technik 1/1988 WILEY-VCH Verlag) - The McCabe-Thiele diagram in Reactive Extraction
(Chemie Ingenieur Technik 3/1994 WILEY-VCH Verlag
- Theme booklet Energiewende (Chemie Ingenieur Technik 4/2015 WILEY-VCH Verlag)
(Chemie Ingenieur Technik 5/2007 WILEY-VCH Verlag)
(Chemie Ingenieur Technik 5/2007 WILEY-VCH Verlag)
(Chemie Ingenieur Technik 1-2 / 2018 WILEY-VCH Verlag)
(Chemie Ingenieur Technik 1-2 / 2018 WILEY-VCH Verlag)
(Chemie Ingenieur Technik 4 / 2021 WILEY-VCH Verlag)
(Chemie Ingenieur Technik 4 / 2021 WILEY-VCH Verlag)
(Chemie Ingenieur Technik 4 / 2021 WILEY-VCH Verlag)
(Chemie Ingenieur Technik 4 / 2021 WILEY-VCH Verlag)
(Chemie Ingenieur Technik 4 / 2021 WILEY-VCH Verlag)
(Chemical Engineering Technology 2016, 39, No.6, 1185-1193, Wiley-Vch Verlag)
- How expensive locomotion is
Nachrichten aus der Chemie, 69, November 2021, 34 - 37, www.gdch.de/nachrichten
Here are the publications for download:
Editorial Energy transition
Editorial process intensification
Editorial Raw Material Change
Eco-efficiency of hydrogen production
Estimation method Salt influence on the liquid [...]
Topic Process Intensification
McCabe-Thiele in Reactive Extraction [...]
About me
Otto Machhammer
The educational background is broad:From
electrical engineering at the Höhere Technische Bundesanstalt Kapfenberg over petroleum engineering.
metallurgy and
mining at the Montanistische Hochschule Leoben (both in Austria) to
mechanical engineering and
chemical process engineering at the RWTH Aachen. My doctoral thesis on the topic "Liquid membrane technology" received an award.
In addition, I went through the entire
BASF internal training. On top of subject-specific topics, this also encompassed aspects of
safety technology,
leading a discussion, and
Human Resources Management.
Exceptional strengths include creativity, mastery of the fundamentals, a wide spectrum of experience, and practical relevance. Targeted, elegant and occasionally unconventional solutions will be developed for your company with a strong focus on profitability.
Associated partners
