Conference Topics

Plant and process concepts

• Electrification of chemical processes
• Energy efficient processes
• Heat transition in electricity and process heat supply
• Innovative in-situ reactor diagnostics
• Measurement and control
• Modular plant concepts
• Plant and process concepts for new therapeutics
• Process intensification
• Process automation
• Process modelling and simulation
• Smart engineering, processes, reactors and equipment
• Tolerant processes

Biotechnology

• Bioprocess automation and digitalisation
• Bioprocess engineering
• Bioprocess miniaturisation
• Bioprocess monitoring
• Bioprocess systems integration
• Specialities processing
• Modelling and simulation of bioprocesses
• Process analytical technology (PAT)
• Biotransformations
• Downstream processing / Adsorption in DSP
• In situ product removal (ISPR)
• Precision fermentation / cellular agriculture / cultured meet
• Synthetic and systems biology
• Cell, metabolic and (bio)catalyst engineering
• Electrobiotechnology
• Photobiotechnology
• Food biotechnology
• Environmental biotechnology

(Bio)pharmaceutical processing

• Product and process development
• Artificial Intelligence for (bio)pharmaceuticals development
• New biopharmaceutical approaches: advanced therapies, vaccines engineering
• Formulation
• Continuous manufacturing
• Product and process analytics
• Production and purification technologies
• Biomedical engineering and Regenerative Medicine
• Quality by Design

Circular (Bio)Economy

• Biorefineries
• Decentralised production and logistic chains
• Materials cycles and recycling
• The role of reaction engineering in circular economy
• The role of thermodynamics in materials transition
• Challenging thermodynamics limits and opportunities of circularity
• High temperature technology for the Green Deal goals
• Renewable energy and circular carbon/nitrogen
• Life cycle and sustainability analysis
• Electro-, photo- and other unconventional conversion technologies

Digital transformation

• AI methods and applications
• From simple models to digital twins
• Predictive maintenance
• Enabling technologies and strategies for industry 4.0
• Efficiency and flexibility in supply chain management
• Role of smart, digital and distributed manufacturing in CBE Industry 5.0

Energy transition

• Alternative fuels (biofuels, eFuels)
• Electrification of process industries
• Energy storage and transport
• Power-to-X
• Sector coupling and energy efficiency
• The role of thermodynamics in energy transition

Fluid and solids process engineering

• Adsorption from nm- to m-scale
• Distillation and absorption technologies
• Molecular modelling and simulation
• Mixing technologies
• Multiphase fluid flow
• Separation technologies
• Solvent extraction
• Integrated sensor technologie
• Intensification and electrification of unit operations
• Hybrid modelling and machine learning applications
• Smart equipment

Industrial water and waste water technologies

• Biofilms (fouling)
• Digitalisation in water management
• Energy efficient water management
• Recycling of industrial water / water reuse
• Treatment and management of concentrates
• Wastewater-free production
• Water and waste water technologies for Power-to-X

New materials for process engineering

• 3D-printing and additive manufacturing
• Advanced catalyst materials
• Materials for smart surfaces
• Nanoscale systems
• Thin films
• (Bio)materials processing for micro- and nano electronics, medicine, food, energy conversion and storage

Education 4.0

• Hybride learning
• Teaching and learning in the pandemic
• Effectiveness and efficiency of immersive learning methods
• Concepts for life-long learning

Student and PhD student programme

• (organised by kjVI – kreative junge Verfahrensingenieure)