- Expert for gas infrastructure projects - national and international – for natural gas, coke oven gas and CO2 (NEL, gas distribution Baku, ROAD etc.)
- Consultant for national and international projects (Russia, Azerbaijan, United Arab Emirates, Austria)
- Member of the E.ON Ruhrgas Crisis Management Team and Kokereigasnetz Ruhr GmbH
- E.ON Program manager for CCS
- E.ON Program manager for gas infrastructure projects
- Claim manager for large pipeline projects (as NEL)
- Final approval of large projects on behalf of E.ON Ruhrgas AG
- Member of the supervisory board Tauern Gas Pipeline, Austria
- Technical expert for coke oven gas systems, regulatory frameworks applicable and consultant of the managing board
- Expert for safety analysis and failure statistics, vice chairman for the development of the DVGW Arbeitsblatt G410
- Support of the restructuring and integration process of E.ON Ruhrgas into E.ON Technologies GmbH
- Negotiation of contracts for service agreements, demerging of parts of the company, and binding inquiries to financial authorities
- Support of the demerging process of Open Grid Europe
- Support of the demerging process of Kokereigasnetz Ruhr GmbH
- Representative at the COP 17 IGU Gas Symposium in Durban, South Africa
- Representative at the European Business Congress
- Disciplinary and functional steering
- Support of assessment centre and HR placements
- Initiation and supervision of bachelor and master thesis
- Project manager in charge of the investor for pipeline projects with a project volume > € 500 Mio.
- Responsibility for all stages of licensing processes and under public participation
- Ex-post analysis and lessons learned from projects completed
- Member of the E.ON Ruhrgas crisis management team
- Expert opinion on technological safety
- Representative of the company at public hearings
- Responsibility for safety, quality, budget, deadlines, public relations
- Introduction of pipeline integrity management system (PIMS)
- Introduction of digital permitting processes
- Expert for intelligent pigging, MFL and US
- Member of the NETRA construction committee
- Execution of pipeline pressure increase projects
- Installation of mobile compressors and excess gas burners to reduce emissions during pipeline re-allocation
- Introductions of technical innovations for planning, construction, and operation of high pressure pipelines
- Cost reduction through standardised rehabilitation measures
- Expert for rehabilitation programs on existing pipeline infrastructure
- Optimisation of pipeline operation, (e.g. increase MOP)
- Disciplinary and functional management of the department
- Contribution to assessment center and recruiting processes
- Supervision of bachelor and master thesis
- Project development
- Pre- and detail engineering of pipeline projects
- Routing and optimisation of location
- Budgeting and cost optimisation
- Pipeline commissioning, negotiation with authorities
- Implementation of new pipeline technologies (e.g. steel pipeline inside an existing high pressure gas pipeline)
- Introduction of pipeline integrity analysis for cost reduction in maintenance
- Ruhrgas representative in DIN, NÖG, ISO and DVGW
- Member of construction board of NETRA
- Optimisation of industrial and domestic gas applications
- Optimisation of gas metering (turbine and ultrasonic flow meters)
- Optimisation of temperature measurement for gas metering
- Development of new burners
- Acoustic oscillations problems in gas burners
- Operation of laboratories for industrial gas burners
- National and international research projects (e.g. flow visualization in burners, reduction of NOx emissions)
- Development of a new method for the numerical calibration of flow meters
- Investigation of influence of flow disturbances on flow meters
- Joint European validation project for viscous flow simulation of delta wings
- Numerical simulation of three-dimensional viscous flow in a turbine stage
Code development for:
- Numerical grid generation
- Solving the 3-dimensional Navier-Stokes flow equations
- Post processing of flow data
2014 - DVGW Ehrennadel, Bonn
2008 - “OneE.ON-Award" by E.ON, Düsseldorf
1992 - “The Busk Prize“ by Royal Aeronautical Society, London
1996 - Numerical calibration of ultrasonic flow meters - DE 195 43 331 C2
1995 - Delta burner for natural gas - DE 195 42 521 A1
| 2012 - 2018 | Convener technical committee 265/WG2 CO2-Transport | ISO |
| 2012 - 2018 | Convener German national committee CO2-Transport | DIN |
| 2012 - 2018 | Convener technical committee CO2-Transport | DVGW |
| 2010 - 2016 | Representative of the DVGW to the committee for long-distance pipelines | AfR |
| 2007 - 2010 | Member of the CEN TC 234 | CEN |
| 2007 - 2014 | Member of the steering committee Marcogaz, Brussels | Marcogaz |
| 1999 - 2018 | Editor of 3R international magazine | Vulkan Verlag |