Particle process engineering, from a Hamburg office

Vasyl, Sophia, and Christian were researchers at the Institute of Solids Process Engineering and Particle Technology (SPE) at Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), sharing the same office and working on adjacent particle and process simulation problems.

The pattern was clear from conversations with industrial partners: companies in chemicals, pharma, food, and mining had real, expensive problems in their downstream solids processing, but the simulation tools available off the shelf could not capture the particle-scale behavior that drove those problems.

In 2022, the three co-founded DyssolTEC together with Prof. Stefan Heinrich, head of the SPE institute, to bring the particle-simulation toolchain they had been building (DyssolPro and MUSEN) into industrial projects.

The company stayed in Hamburg and stayed close to its academic origin. Through ongoing collaboration with universities and research institutes across Europe, the team keeps current with new modeling methods and contributes its own work back to the field.