Michael Kleiber

Michael Kleiber was born in Walsrode / Northern Germany in 1963. After finishing school and military service, he studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Brunswick, with process engineering and thermodynamics as the main topics. From 1989-1994 he did his PhD Thesis at the same university.

In 1994, he joined the Hoechst AG, where he worked as a process engineer. After a short stay at GEA Wiegand GmbH, he moved over to the Uhde GmbH (now: thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG) in 2006. Michael Kleiber's companies have the strange habit to change their names frequently, while the names of his employers changed fourteen times altogether, his desk only did so twice.

His topics are process simulation, equipment design and process development.

He has worked on the following processes:

- Acetaldehyde

- Trioxane

- Vinyl Acetate

- Ethylene Dichloride / Vinyl Chloride

- Propylene Oxide

- Polypropylene

- LDPE

- 2-Ethyl-Hexanol

- Bio-Butanol

- THF

- Exhaust Air Purification

and many others.

Michael Kleiber is a member of the ProcessNet Board of Thermodynamics since 2004. He is the author of several publications in benchmark books (VDI Heat Atlas, Ullmann, Winnacker-Küchler).