Conference Awards
| Year | Type | Conference | Title | Authors |
| 2024 | Best poster | Annual Meeting of the Dechema working party Fluid Separation | Understanding temperature profiles of distillation columns | Lena-Marie Ränger, Ivar Halvorsen, Thomas Grützner, Sigurd Skogestad |
| 2022 | Best poster | 12th International Conference on Distillation & Absorption | CFD and AM as a Combined Tool for the Development of Innovative Structured Packings on a Laboratory Scale | Nadin Sarajlic, Johannes Neukäufer, Mohamed Adel Ashour, Thomas Grützner, Jürgen Paschold, Carsten Knösche, Harald Klein, Sebastian Rehfeldt |
| 2020 | Best poster | Jahrestreffen der ProcessNet-Fachgruppen Fluidverfahrenstechnik, Adsorption und Extraktion | Mehrkriterielle Optimierung ternärer Destillationen: Gesamter Lösungsraum | Lena-Marie Ränger, Martin von Kurnatowski, Michael Bortz, Thomas Grützner |
| 2019 | 2nd best presentation award | 23rd ICHIP Conference in Warsaw, Poland | Considerations on the design of a pilot-plant-scale simplified multiple dividing wall column | Ulrich Preißinger, Lena-Marie Ränger, Thomas Grützner |
| 2016 | Best poster | Lonza Global R&T Conference in Visp, Switzerland | Multipurpose and Extractive Dividing Wall Columns - Unique Technologies Developed by Lonza | Daniel Staak and Thomas Grützner |
| 2005 | Best conference contribution | VDI-GVC Fachausschuss Fluidverfahrenstechnik in Lübeck, Germany | Entwicklung eines neuen, destillativen Trioxanverfahrens | Thomas Grützner, Hans Hasse, Neven Lang, Markus Siegert, Eckhard Ströfer |
Other Awards
| Year | Description | Persons involved |
| 2023 | Shortlist Nominee of ExzellenziaUlm Research Award 2023 | Lena-Marie Ränger |
| 2023 | "PhD Award 2023" for outstanding dissertation by Ulmer Universitätsgesellschaft | Lena-Marie Ränger |
| 2022 | "Cooperation Award Science-Business" (Kooperationspreis Wissenschaft-Wirtschaft) | Johannes Neukäufer, Thomas Grützner |
| 2022 | Cover page of the AIChE Journal in the March issue | Johannes Neukäufer, Adel Ashour, Nadin Sarajlic, Harald Klein, Sebastian Rehfeldt, Heiko Hallmann, Sebastian Meinicke, Jürgen Paschold, Carsten Knösche, Thomas Grützner |