M.Sc. Lucas Briest
Research Associate
M.Sc. Lucas Briest
Institute of Process Engineering
Chair of Thermal Process Engineering
Chair of Thermal Process Engineering
Universitätsplatz 2,
39106
Magdeburg,
G15-115
Experience
| since 04/2021 |
Seminar Lecturer |
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| since 01/2020 |
Research Associate |
| 08/2020 – 07/2021 |
Senator |
Education
| 10/2018 – 12/2019 |
M. Sc. Process Engineering Master thesis: Investigation of the drying behavior of wet roof tiles in a microwave apparatus on a pilot plant scale |
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| 10/2014 – 08/2018 |
B. Sc. Process Engineering Bachelor thesis: Studies on the adhesive suitability of high-strength steel materials in automotive engineering |
Peer-reviewed journal articles
| [3] | Dernbecher, A., Bhaskaran, S., Vorhauer-Huget, N., Seidenbecher, J., Gopalkrishna, S., Briest, L., & Dieguez-Alonso, A. (2025). Investigation on the intra-particle anisotropic transport properties of a beech wood particle during pyrolysis. Particuology, 98, 172 – 190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.partic.2025.01.006 |
| [2] | Vorhauer-Huget, N., Seidenbecher, J., Bhaskaran, S., Schenkel, F., Briest, L., Gopalkrishna, S., Barowski, J., Dernbecher, A., Hilfert, L., Rolfes, I., & Dieguez-Alonso, A. (2024). Dielectric and physico-chemical behavior of single thermally thick wood blocks under microwave assisted pyrolysis. Particuology, 86, 291 – 303. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.partic.2023.07.004 |
| [1] | Briest, L., Wagner, R., Tretau, A., Tsotsas, E., & Vorhauer-Huget, N. (2022). Microwave-assisted drying of clay roof tiles. Drying Technology, 40(9), 1804–1818. https://doi.org/10.1080/07373937.2021.1878369 |
Other articles
| [3] | Briest, L. (2026). Advancing microwave drying of thermally thick materials at OVGU Magdeburg. AMPERE Newsletter - Trends in RF and Microwave Heating, (126), 4 – 6. www.ampereeurope.org |
| [2] | Vorhauer-Huget, N., Briest, L., Wagner, R., Tretau, A., Rahimi, A., & Tsotsas, E. (2022). Using microwave heating for electrification of the drying of green heavy clay products. Brick and Tile Industry International, 2022(03). zi-online.info |
| [1] | Briest, L., Tsotsas, E., & Vorhauer-Huget, N. (2021). Experimentelle Untersuchung der Mikrowellentrocknung von Sanitärkeramiken. Keramische Zeitschrift, 73(2), 36 – 43. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42410-021-0472-5 |
Conference proceedings
| [9] | Faber, F., Kleine, L., Griesche, J., Briest, L., Barowski, J., Dieguez-Alonso, A., & Vorhauer-Huget, N. (2026). Potentials of microwave heating for industrial applications. Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Industrial Furnaces and Boilers (INFUB 15). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20595383 |
| [8] | Schmidt, A., Wagner, R., Tretau, A., Narasimhaiah, A.U., Briest, L., & Vorhauer-Huget, N. (2026). Multi-physical modeling of microwave-based drying of moist porous media. Conference Proceedings 20th International Conference on Microwave and High Frequency Applications – AMPERE 2025. https://doi.org/10.14644/microwave25.011 |
| [7] | Briest, L., Wagner, R., Tretau, A., Ganß, M., Ujjani Narasimhaiah, A., Tsotsas, E., & Vorhauer-Huget, N. (2025). In-situ temperature monitoring during microwave heating using fiber-optic sensors. 2nd international workshop on reacting particle-gas systems: modelling and experimental characterization of reactive particle-gas systems. https://doi.org/10.25673/118928 |
| [6] | Ujjani Narasimhaiah, A., Schmidt, A., Briest, L., Tretau, A., Wagner, R., Tsotsas, E., & Vorhauer-Huget, N. (2025). Modelling of a lab-scale microwave dryer for thermally thick materials. 2nd international workshop on reacting particle-gas systems: modelling and experimental characterization of reactive particle-gas systems. https://doi.org/10.25673/118928 |
| [5] | Dernbecher, A., Bhaskaran, S., Vorhauer-Huget, N., Seidenbecher, J., Gopalkrishna, S., Briest, L., Dieguez-Alonso, A., Benim, A.C., Bennacer, R., Mohamad, A.A., Ocłoń, P., Suh, S., & Taler, J. (2024). Evaluation of Convective Heat Transfer Inside the Pores of Pyrolyzed Wood using a µ-CT Based Realistic Geometry. Advances in Computational Heat and Mass Transfer: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computational Heat and Mass Transfer (ICCHMT 2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-66609-4_36 |
| [4] | Govindarasu, V., Wagner, R., Ganß, M., Tretau, A., Vorhauer-Huget, N., & Briest, L. (2023). Analysis of the power input for crack-free drying of green bricks. Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Microwave and High-Frequency Applications (AMPERE 2023). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10159426 |
| [3] | Ganß, M., Wagner, R., Tretau, A., Vorhauer-Huget, N., Briest, L., & Tsotsas, E. (2023). Measuring of process-dependent temperature distribution in bricks during drying with intermittent microwaves using distributed fibre-optical sensors. Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Microwave and High-Frequency Applications (AMPERE 2023). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10159426 |
| [2] | Briest, L., Dharmananda, P., Tretau, A., Wagner, R., Tsotsas, E., & Vorhauer-Huget, N. (2023). Microwave heating as a possible route for the defossilization of green brick drying. Proceedings of the 8th European Drying Conference (EuroDrying 2023). |
| [1] | Thomik, M., Briest, L., Vorhauer, N., Gruber, S., Petra, F., Schuchmann, H., & Tsotsas, E. (2022). Evaluation of methods to represent the structure in tomographic images of freeze-dried porous media. Proceedings of the 22nd International Drying Symposium on Drying Technology - IDS '22. https://doi.org/10.55900/ldswiytv |
Conference presentations
| [28] | Faber, F., Briest, L., Ujjani Narasimhaiah, A., & Vorhauer-Huget, N. (2026, April 14). Potentials of microwave heating for industrial applications [Oral presentation]. Workshop – Nutzung der Mikrowellenerwärmung in verfahrenstechnischen Prozessen, Weimar, Germany. |
| [27] | Faber, F., Kleine, L., Griesche, J., Briest, L., Barowski, J., Dieguez-Alonso, A., & Vorhauer-Huget, N. (2026, April 7 – 10). Potentials of microwave heating for industrial applications [Oral presentation]. 15th European Conference on Industrial Furnaces and Boilers (INFUB 15), Porto, Portugal. |
| [26] | Schmidt, A., Wagner, R., Ujjani Narasimhaiah, A., Briest, L., & Vorhauer-Huget, N. (2025, September 15 – 18). Multi-physical modelling of microwave-based drying of moist porous media [Conference presentation]. XX International Conference on Microwave and High Frequency Applications (AMPERE 2025), Bari, Italy. |
| [25] | Briest, L., Ujjani Narasimhaiah, A., Szameitat, V., Magdowski, M., Wagner, R., Tretau, A., & Vorhauer-Huget, N. (2025, September 15 – 18). Measurement of electromagnetic field distribution in pilot scale microwave dryer [Conference presentation]. XX International Conference on Microwave and High Frequency Applications (AMPERE 2025), Bari, Italy. |
| [24] | Briest, L., Wagner, R., Tretau, A., Ganß, M., Narasimhaiah, A., Tsotsas, E., & Vorhauer-Huget, N. (2025, June 17 – 18). In-situ temperature monitoring during microwave heating using fiber-optic sensors [Poster]. 2nd International Workshop on Reacting Particle-Gas Systems, Magdeburg, Germany. |
| [23] | Ujjani Narasimhaiah, A., Schmidt, A., Briest, L., Tretau, A., Wagner, R., Tsotsas, E., & Vorhauer-Huget, N. (2025, June 17 – 18). Modelling of a lab-scale microwave dryer for thermally thick materials [Conference presentation]. 2nd International Workshop on Reacting Particle-Gas Systems, Magdeburg, Germany. |
| [22] | Ujjani Narasimhaiah, A., Schmidt, A., Briest, L., Tretau, A., Tsotsas, E., & Vorhauer-Huget, N. (2025, May 19 – 23). Modelling of electromagnetic field distribution in the digital twin of a laboratory-scale microwave drier for clay tiles and bricks [Conference presentation]. 15th International Conference on Computational Heat & Mass Transfer (ICCHMT 2025), Antalya, Turkey. |
| [21] | Dernbecher, A., Bhaskaran, S., Vorhauer-Huget, N., Gopalkrishna, S., Seidenbecher, J., Briest, L., & Dieguez-Alonso, A. (2025, April 7 – 10). Pore resolved simulation of flow through a partially pyrolyzed beech wood particle with immersed boundary method [Conference presentation]. 12th European Combustion Meeting, Edinghburg, United Kingdom. |
| [20] | Briest, L., Ujjani Narasimhaiah, A., Tretau, A., Wagner, R., Schmidt, A., Tsotsas, E., & Vorhauer-Huget, N. (2025, April 1 – 3). Experimentelle und simulative Untersuchung zur Mikrowellentrocknung von thermisch dicken Ziegelprodukten [Conference presentation]. Jahrestreffen 2025 der DECHEMA/VDI-Fachgruppen "Agglomerations- und Schüttguttechnik" (AGG) und "Trocknungstechnik" (TRO), Friedrichshafen, Deutschland. |
| [19] | Ujjani Narasimhaiah, A., Schmidt, A., Briest, L., Tretau, A., Tsotsas, E., & Vorhauer-Huget, N. (2025, March 10 – 12). Simulation of electromagnetic field distribution of lab-scale microwave dryer [Poster]. Jahrestreffen 2025 der DECHEMA/VDI-Fachgruppe "Wärme- und Stoffübertragung" (WSUE), Stuttgart, Deutschland. |
| [18] | Briest, L., Wagner, R., Tretau, A., Tsotsas, E., & Vorhauer-Huget, N. (2023, December 5 – 7). Prozessorientierte Mikrowellentechnologie für die Ziegelherstellung [Conference presentation]. 60. Würzburger Ziegellehrgang, Würzburg, Germany. |
| [17] | Dieguez-Alonso, A., Seidenbecher, J., Gopalkrishna, S., Briest, L., Hilfert, L., Vorhauer-Huget, N., Kulak, N., & de la Rosa, J.M. (2023, September 17 – 21). Investigation on the pyrolysis mechanisms of plastics for the development of robust and sustainable processes for chemical recycling [Vortrag]. 14th European Congress of Chemical Engineering (ECCE 2023) and 7th European Congress of Applied Biotechnology (ECAB 2023), Berlin, Germany. |
| [16] | Ganß, M., Wagner, R., Tretau, A., Vorhauer-Huget, N., Briest, L., & Tsotsas, E. (2023, September 11 – 14). Measuring of process-dependent temperature distribution in bricks during drying with intermittent microwaves using distributed fibre-optical sensors [Poster]. 19th International Conference on Microwave and High-Frequency Applications (AMPERE 2023), Cardiff, Wales, UK. |
| [15] | Govindarasu, V., Wagner, R., Ganß, M., Tretau, A., Vorhauer-Huget, N., & Briest, L. (2023, September 11 – 14). Analysis of the power input for crack-free drying of green bricks [Conference presentation]. XIX International Conference on Microwave and High-Frequency Applications (AMPERE 2023), Cardiff, United Kingdom. |
| [14] | Dharmananda, P., Briest, L., Tsotsas, E., & Vorhauer-Huget, N. (2023, September 4 – 8). Simulation of energy dissipation and heat transfer in wet clay materials using COMSOL multiphysics [Conference presentation]. 14th International Conference on Computational Heat and Mass Transfer (ICCHMT), Düsseldorf, Germany. |
| [13] | Dernbecher, A., Bhaskaran, S., Vorhauer-Huget, N., Seidenbecher, J., Gopalkrishna, S., Briest, L., & Dieguez-Alonso, A. (2023, September 4 – 8). Evaluation of convective heat transfer inside the pores of pyrolyzed wood using a µ-CT based realistic geometry [Conference presentation]. 14th International Conference on Computational Heat and Mass Transfer (ICCHMT), Düsseldorf, Germany. |
| [12] | Briest, L., Dharmananda, P., Tretau, A., Wagner, R., Thomik, M., Tsotsas, E., & Vorhauer-Huget, N. (2023, July 4 – 7). Microwave heating as a possible route for the defossilization of green brick drying [Conference presentation]. 8th European Drying Conference (EuroDrying 2023), Łódź, Poland. |
| [11] | Vorhauer-Huget, N., Briest, L., Pharasher, A., & Magdowski, M. (2023, July 3 – 6). Simulation of the scattering parameters of a rectangular waveguide filled with different dielectric samples [Conference presentation]. PhotonIcs and Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS 2023), Prague, Czech Republic. |
| [10] | Briest, L., Wagner, R., Tretau, A., Tsotsas, E., & Vorhauer-Huget, N. (2023, March 6 – 8). Trocknung Von Ziegelrohlingen: Experimentelle Untersuchung und Simulation mit COMSOL [Conference presentation]. Jahrestreffen 2023 der DECHEMA/VDI-Fachgruppen „Computational Fluid Dynamics“ (CFD) und „Wärme- und Stoffübertragung“ (WSUE), Frankfurt am Main, Germany. |
| [9] | Briest, L., Wagner, R., Tretau, A., Tsotsas, E., & Vorhauer-Huget, N. (2023, March 6 – 7). Simulation und Validierung der Mikrowellentrocknung von Hochlochziegeln in COMSOL [Conference presentation]. Jahrestreffen 2023 der DECHEMA/VDI-Fachgruppen "Abfallbehandlung und Wertstoffrückgewinnung/Rohstoffe” (AuW/ROH) und "Trocknungstechnik" (TRO), Dresden, Germany. |
| [8] | Briest, L. (2022, October 18 – 18). Experimentelle Untersuchungen von Hochlochziegeln und Riemchen [Conference presentation]. AIF Workshop, Weimar, Germany. |
| [7] | Müller, D., Briest, L., Bück, A., & Tsotsas, E. (2022, June 26 – 29). A two-zone continuum model of sprayed Wurster fluidization [Conference presentation]. IDS 2022, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. |
| [6] | Briest, L., Vorhauer-Huget, N., Tretau, A., Wagner, R., & Tsotsas, E. (2022, June 26 – 29). Microwave drying of wet clay in pilot-scale plant [Conference presentation]. 22nd International Drying Symposium (IDS22), Illinois, USA. |
| [5] | Vorhauer-Huget, N., Seidenbecher, J., Bhaskaran, S., Schenkel, F., Briest, L., Barowski, J., & Dieguez-Alonso, A. (2022, June 8 – 9). Dielectrical and structural properties of pyrolized biomass [Poster]. 1st International Workshop on Reacting Particle-Gas Systems, Bochum, Germany. |
| [4] | Briest, L., Wagner, R., Tretau, A., Rahimi, A., Tsotsas, E., & Vorhauer-Huget, N. (2022, March 10 – 11). Simulation der Mikrowellentrocknung von Tonziegelrohlingen in COMSOL [Conference presentation]. FALVT/FATT, Frankfurt, Germany. |
| [3] | Briest, L., Vorhauer-Huget, N., Wagner, R., Tretau, A., Rahimi, A., & Tsotsas, E. (2021, September 23 – 23). Sustainable processing of clay products by the application of microwave drying [Conference presentation]. 13th European Congress of Chemical Engineering (ECCE), Online. |
| [2] | Briest, L., Vorhauer-Huget, N., Wagner, R., Tretau, A., Rahimi, A., & Tsotsas, E. (2021, March 15). Mikrowellentrocknung von Tonpflasterziegelrohlingen und deren Wechselwirkung mit dem elektromagnetischen Feld [Conference presentation]. DECHEMA/VDI Jahrestreffen Fachgruppe Trocknungstechnik (TRO) 2021, Online. |
| [1] | Vorhauer, N., Briest, L., Tretau, A., Wagner, R., & Tsotsas, E. (2020, March 12 – 13). Energieeffiziente Gestaltung der Ziegeltrocknung mit intermittierender Mikrowellenleistung [Conference presentation]. DECHEMA/VDI Jahrestreffen Fachgruppe Wärme- und Stoffübertragung (WSUE) 2020, Erfurt, Germany. |
Efficient drying by microwave radiation of clay building materials such as roof tiles, clinker bricks and ceramics.
Experimental investigations are carried out with a microwave dryer, which has a power of 2 kW and where many process parameters are determined online.
Simulations of microwave heating are realized by coupling the electromagnetic field with the heat transport and validated by experiments.