Prof. Dr. Kai Herrmann

Since 2016
FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland,
Education and training, R&D projects and services in cooperation with universities, research institutes and industry partners

2014 – 2016
Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
Head of the group "Combustion Technologies", "Combustion Research Laboratory"

2004 – 2014
Wärtsilä Switzerland Ltd, CH-8400, Winterthur
"Senior Manager Research & Innovation": Coordination of R&D projects, cooperation with universities, acquisition of funding, development of internal processes, "Testing & Performance", "Spray and Combustion Research Scientist"

2002 – 2003
Institute of Energy Technology – LAV, ETH Zurich, Prof. K. Boulouchos, "Senior Scientist", management and supervision of various projects

1997 – 2002
PhD thesis, Institute of Energy Technology (IET-LVV), Prof. M.K. Eberle
"Strömung, Flammencharakterisierung und Stickoxid-Bildung in turbulenten Vormischflammen", Diss. ETH Nr. 14952, 2002, Award "Silver Medal of ETH Zurich"

• FVV: Science for a moving society
• COMET: Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies
• IEA: International Energy Agency, Technology Collaboration Program Sustainable Combustion
• Bundesamt für Energie, Forschung und Cleantech, Publications
  

• "Future Fuel Fundamentals" (COMET-FFF)
• "Combustion system with alternative pre-chamber fuels" (SACI-II)
• "Experimental and numerical investigations of mixture formation in H₂ engines using PFI and DI" (H2-PFIDI)
• "E-Methanol Compression Ignition Combustion" (EMOCION)
• "Exhaust Analytics for Low GHG Impact Fuels" (EXHALE)
• "N₂O exhaust gas treatment in ammonia engines" (N2Ooff)
• "Pre-ignited Flame Propagation" (PREFER)
  
• "Ignition methods for non-premixed combustion of high-pressure direct injected gas in heavy-duty engines" (GIHCPO)
  
• "Carbon reduced dual-fuel combustion" (CREDO)
  

• "Turbulence determination of inlet valve flow in terms of cyclic variability by means of Proper Orthogonal Decomposition analyzed PIV measurements (TurbFlow-PIVPOD)
• "Pre-Ignition in Dual-Fuel/Gas Engines" (PROGrESs)
• "Flame Propagation and Knock Model Improvement" (FrEAK)
• "Investigation of heat transfer (resolved in space and time) by modern combustion processes" (Q-Flux)
• "Adapted fuels for Dual-Fuel and Diesel combustion processes under engine relevant conditions" (Adapted Fuels)
• SCCER Mobility "Chemical Energy Converters" (SCCER-M)
• "Fuel Flexible, Near Zero Emissions, Adaptive Performance Marine Engine" (Hercules-2)

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