Beasiswa S3 program Phd in Netherlands

PhD Student “Removal of compounds in ppm range by adsorption”

The Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TU/e) has the following vacancy

PhD Student “Removal of compounds in ppm range by adsorption” (V37.627)
at Laboratory for Separation Technology and Transport Phenomena (SST), Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry.

The Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry (ST) is one of the nine departments of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). It was established in 1957. The department has approximately 390 employees (360 fte), 13 full professors, 370 undergraduate students (bachelor and masterstudents) and about 170 graduate students (140 Ph.D. and 30 design engineers).

The department aspires to be an academic institution for education and research in chemical science and engineering that meets the highest international standards. The aim is to generate and to develop technology and scientific knowledge relevant for the long-term needs of society. Scientific curiosity and the use of newly generated knowledge are the main driving forces for the continuing enhancements of the three chosen fields of expertise: molecular, materials, and process engineering.

Tasks
The research project is carried out within a larger framework of two from the Dutch Separation Technology Institute (DSTI) (www.dsti.nl) in which over 40 companies, institutes and universities cooperate. The two projects are:
“Removal of compounds present in ppm concentrations in aqueous streams” (SC-00-004)
“Removal of compounds present in ppm concentrations from organic bulk chemical streams” (SC-00-006)

The research will be carried out in a cooperation between 5 university groups, TNO and industry. The incentive is that in numerous processes compounds present in the ppm range need to be removed from a process stream or final product, because of demanded purity. Most frequently distillation is used for such separations, but in view of energy consumption, costs and elevated temperatures, alternatives are desired. Next to other alternatives to be studied by the other 4 PhD students, the subject of this study is to identify the opportunities for adsorption as possible technology for such separations. Based on a joint definition of compounds, streams and conditions, an overview of possible adsorbents and technological modes of operation will be made in the first year, jointly with the other students who have similar tasks for their technology. A choice is made for the cases to be investigated in more detail, in which both experiments and modeling will be core activities. The aim is to integrate the gained knowledge into a process model for a specific production process, allowing to establish proof of concept.

The theoretical, modeling and design work will be carried out in the SST laboratory under the guidance of dr.ir. E.A.J.F. Peters and Prof. dr.ir. P.J.A.M. Kerkhof, the experimental work in the Process Systems Engineering laboratory of prof. dr.ir. A.B. de Haan. Close cooperation with the participating companies (Akzo-Nobel, General Electric, Lyondell, Shell) is foreseen.

Requirements
As a PhD-student you have an excellent record in your studies of chemical engineering. You combine an excellent scientific talent with a sound feeling for applicability in practice. You have the ability to acquire knowledge of adsorption fundamentals, of relevant practical possibilities from a large number of sources, and to devise and carry out the relevant experiments. So you combine depth with overview. You have a proven ability in modeling and numerical methods allowing you to evaluate models. You are creative, and a team player, and have a good feeling of project organization. You have excellent communicative skills, and are fluent in English. Also students who are in the final stage of their study are invited to react.

Appointment and Salary

We offer:

a full-time contract for 4 years, with an intermediate evaluation after 1 year. You will start with a gross salary of € 2000 per month in the first year, increasing to € 2558 per month in the fourth year. Furthermore, you will also benefit from attractive secondary job conditions.

Information

More information can be obtained from:

Prof.dr.ir. Piet J.A.M. Kerkhof, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, +31-40-247 2973/2850, e-mail: p.j.a.m.kerkhof@tue.nl .

Application
Please send your written application with extended curriculum vitae including a list of marks and professional references to:

Prof.dr.ir. Piet J.A.M. Kerkhof,
Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, +31-40-247 2973/2850,
e-mail: p.j.a.m.kerkhof@tue.nl .

You can apply for this job before 31-03-2008

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3 PhD students Photonic Home and Access Networks

The Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TU/e) has the following vacancy
3 PhD students Photonic Home and Access Networks (V36.325)
at Department of Electrical Engineering.

The project
The strong growth of bandwidth demand of residential users requires new solutions for powerful access networks, to deliver high-capacity services to the users home, as well as new solutions for in-home networks to bring these services to a variety of user terminals. Currently, Fiber-to-the-Home networks are being installed, and optical fiber is also intruding into the home in order to relieve the last bandwidth bottleneck to the user. In the new European joint research Integrated Project ALPHA, part of the new ECs 7 Framework Programme, innovative optical fiber techniques and network architectures will be investigated for cost-effective future-proof access and in-home networks. These networks will support a heterogeneous set of wired and wireless technologies, and will need to interface efficiently to neighbouring networks and to user terminals. They will need to be equipped with dynamic mechanisms for optimally utilizing the resources of the optical infrastructure in response to the requirements of the services and the users. The ALPHA project is an international R&D cooperation between a large set of industrial and academic partner groups.

Tasks
In the ALPHA project, the tasks for the PhD students in the ECO group will be to define, analyse, design, realise, and test innovative optical fiber techniques for three application areas:

1. Dynamically reconfigurable optical access networks, in order to adapt the capacity to the users demands. The investigations will encompass optical routing techniques and mechanisms to control these.
2. High-capacity in-home networks, which should cost-effectively deliver high-speed wired data services. In particular multimode large-core plastic optical fiber is interesting for low-cost installation. The investigations will encompass techniques to overcome its restricted bandwidth needs, and interfacing with other networks and user terminals.
3. Radio-over-fiber in-home networks, which need to accommodate a range of wireless communication standards (WLAN, WiMAX, UWB, …) and to extend their reach. The investigations will encompass techniques to carry and flexibly distribute these radio standards over low-cost (plastic) optical fiber infrastructures.

Requirements
Candidates for this challenging project should have a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering or in Applied Physics. He/she should have a strong affinity with optical and data communication techniques, and preferably some hands-on experience with optical fiber systems and electronic circuits.

Appointment and Salary
The appointment is for four years. As an employee of the university you will receive a competitive salary as well as excellent secondary benefits (holiday allowance, etc.). The research in this project must be concluded with the attainment of a Ph.D. degree. A salary is offered starting at Euro 1956,00 per month (gross) in the first year and increasing up to Euro 2502,00 per month (gross) in the last year. Moreover 8% bonus share (holiday supplement) is provided annually. Assistance for finding accommodation can be given.

Information
For further information on these vacancies you can contact prof. Ton Koonen ( a.m.j.koonen@tue.nl , tel. +31 40 2474806), dr. Eduward Tangdiongga (e.tangdiongga@tue.nl , tel +31 40 2473219), or ir. H.P.A. van den Boom ( h.p.a.v.d.boom@tue.nl , tel. +31 40 2473444).

For information concerning employment conditions you can contact Ms. F. Verheggen, personnel officer f.verheggen@tue.nl , tel. +31 40 2474796).

Application
If you are interested in one of these Ph.D. positions, please send a detailed curriculum vitae, an explanation of your interest in the proposed research topic, a publication list, your course program and corresponding grades, references and all other information that might be relevant to your application to the address below, mentioning vacancy number V36.325.

Prof. Ton Koonen
ECO group, COBRA Research Institute
Dept. Electrical Engineering (PT 12.29)
Eindhoven University of Technology
P.O. Box 513
NL 5600 MB Eindhoven
The Netherlands

You can apply for this job before 30-04-2008


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