Organizers
TU Bergakademie Freiberg – Institute of Energy Process Engineering and Chemical Engineering
The TU Bergakademie Freiberg is established in 1765. As the German University of Resources, it in teaching and research into the fundamentals and processes relating to raw materials, energy and materials along the entire value chain. Raw materials are explored and extracted, refined into materials, processed into materials and recycled as secondary raw materials. This specialization is reflected in the profile of the university: Geo, Material, Energy and Environment.
The International Freiberg Conference is organized by the Institute of Energy Process Engineering and Chemical Engineering (IEC). Not only is IEC the biggest institute in TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Saxony; it is also one of the leading institutions in research and development activities relating to low carbon, circular and hydrogen technologies in Europe.
Institute of Energy Process Engineering and Chemical Engineering
Fuchsmuehlenweg 9 D, 09599 Freiberg, Germany
Phone: +49-3731-394511
More Information:
www.iec.tu-freiberg.de
R&D activities at IEC are carried out under three professorships:
Professorship for Energy Process Engineering (EVT)
The Professorship for Energy Process Engineering (EVT) researches, develops and optimizes new processes for the energy and raw material turnaround. The focus is on the creation of closed carbon cycles using renewable energies. This includes in particular the chemical recycling of residual materials (especially plastics), the production of synthetic raw materials and fuels (e.g. e-fuels) and the thermochemical extraction of hydrogen (e.g. from biogenic waste). The aim is the basic development of technologies up to industrial scale at the interface between plant engineering, the energy industry, waste management, the chemical industry, and metallurgy.
More Information:
Link to EVT website
EVT Brochure (PDF)
Chair of Reaction Engineering (RT)
The profile of the Chair of Reaction Engineering is mainly in the fields of industrial chemistry and heterogeneous catalysis. Research focuses on basic scientific and application-related issues in the fields of exhaust gas purification, CO2 reduction and the production of synthetic and biogenic fuels. A particular concern is the knowledge-based development of new catalyst materials (rational catalyst design) and chemical process routes.
More Information:
Link to RT website
Professorship Modeling of Thermochemical Conversion Processes (MTK)
The development of new, sustainable technologies for the chemical industry or metallurgy, the computer-aided optimization of technical processes or the model-based evaluation of experiments – in each of these areas, modelling is an indispensable tool for significantly accelerating development and work steps and for testing new concepts on the computer, i.e. virtually.
The team at the MTK professorship at the Institute of Energy Process Engineering and Chemical Engineering develops the necessary models and uses them to calculate, test and optimize a wide range of reactors and syntheses. The R&D activities cover the entire scale range from chemically reacting individual particles to the overall reactor and extend from basic research to technology development together with our partners from industry and business.
More Information:
Link to MTK website