Industrial Scale Natural Products Extraction

Prof. Hans-Jörg Bart is the Head of the Department Process Engineering at Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. He obtained his academic degrees from Technical University of Graz, Austria, and later became Head of the Christian Doppler Laboratorium "Modelling of Reactive Systems in Process Engineering". Professor Bart has authored over 300 publications, is on the editorial board of several journals, including "Chemical Engineering Technology Journal" and "CIT-Plus". Prof. Bart is Head of the ProcessNet working party "Extraction" and is an appointed board member of several scientific working parties.

 

Dr. Stephan Pilz is former Head of the High Pressure Technologies Development at Evonik Degussa GmbH in Trostberg, Germany and furthermore developed processes for natural substances. After passing functions in Business Development and Strategic Projects, he is now in International Sales and located in Shanghai. He received his degree from Stuttgart University, Germany, worked on his master thesis with British Gas, UK, and his PhD with Daimler Chrysler AG at Karlsruhe University. Dr. Pilz is co-chairman of the Process-Net working party "Natural Plant Extracts - Processes and Products".