Head of the IWBT of TU BS is Prof. Dr. techn. R. Leithner (born in 1945
in Schärding, Austria). He has graduated as Dipl.-Ing.
(Mechanical Engineering) from the Technical University in Vienna in
1970 with a diploma thesis about measurment and simulation of a heat
exchanger. From 1971 till 1983 he was working in different positions
with Energie- und Verfahrenstechnik GmbH (now (ABB) Alstom Power
Combustion GmbH), Suttgart, one of the leading steam generator
manufacturers in Germany. During his work at EVT he wrote a doctoral
thesis on the mass flow from an equally heated tube at constant
pressure and was graduated as Dr. techn. from the Technical University
in Vienna in 1976.
His last position in this company was head of the "main department for
steam generator design, development and commissioning" including stress
analyses and control systems; also procuration was granted him. In 1983
he was appointed professor and director of the IWBT - TU BS. During all
these positions he was always involved in power plant calculation and
design.