Field Trip to Total allows for completely new insights!
In practice, things can sometimes be just as complex and contorted as they seem easy on paper or a computer screen. Additionally, the over 30-meter tall distillation columns at Total Mitteldeutschland GmbH in Leuna/Spergau are definitely exciting.
On 18. May 2015, 40 FVST students participated in a field trip and gained better insight into the production of methanol by partial oxidation at Total's facility in southern Saxony-Anhalt. Prof. Sundmacher enlightened the students, who now all attend his lectures on systems process engineering during the summer semester, in the theoretical details of this process, which they were now able to see on site and in person in Leuna in the large, voluminous plant components, interconnected by plentiful pipelines.
We would like to thank Dipl.-Ing. Stephan Ehnert for the extensive and enlightening on-site explanations and Ms. Bachmann for the efficient organization of the trip to Total.
P.s.: Our arrival on the well-known Magdeburg handball club SCM's tour bus provided for much excitement amongst the Total workers, accompanied by cell phone and camera snapshots. Our popularity is on the rise!
Our FVST students at the Total site.