New DECHEMA/VDI paper: When to go for modular plants concepts?
he DECHEMA/VDI Working Groups Cost Engineering and Modular Plants provide definitions, evaluation criteria, and examples for the economic and qualitative assessment of different plant construction concepts in the paper "Cost Engineering for Modular Plants".
Green Hydrogen Production in Namibia – Current Report available
The project Green-H2 Namibia released a report that offers an overview of the country’s ambitions and potentials of becoming a major producer of green hydrogen. Moreover, the report outlines hydrogen demands and production costs on a global level and reflects on Namibia’s role as a green hydrogen exporter.
ACHEMA 2024 sets the tone for a more sustainable and competitive process industry
At ACHEMA 2024, the world's leading trade show for the process industries, 2,842 exhibitors from 56 nations showed 106,001 participants from 141 countries the latest equipment and innovative processes for the chemical, pharmaceutical and food processing industries at the Frankfurt exhibition grounds from 10 to 14 June 2024.
BioSPRINT Project Concludes with Significant Achievements for Biorefining Technology
After four productive years, the BioSPRINT project comes to a successful end. During the final General Assembly meeting at the Leuna Chemical Complex, the project partners presented results of the final project phase, which focused on integrating the individual steps of the BioSPRINT process. The BioSPRINT technology provides an intensified concept to improve biorefinery operations at a final TRL of 4-5. Key outcomes demonstrate the feasibility of producing valuable furan monomers from renewable biomass and show significant potential for commercialisation.
What kind of infrastructure will the hydrogen economy need by 2050?
Europe will have a minimum demand of 700 TWh of hydrogen in 2050. The steel and chemical industries will be the main drivers of a hydrogen economy then, generating a high demand for imports and electrolysers. A pan-European hydrogen backbone is needed to connect the dispersed centers of production, storage and consumption. These and other insights are presented in the latest white paper from the BMBF's hydrogen flagship project TransHyDE System Analysis, coordinated by Fraunhofer IEG and DECHEMA e.V.
Possibilities to capture and utilize carbon dioxide for sustainable production routes
The DECHEMA report ‘Carbon for Power-to-X – Suitable CO2 sources and integration in PtX value chains’ deals with possibilities to capture and utilize carbon dioxide for sustainable production routes.
EU project CORNERSTONE supports long-term circular economy of european industry
The CORNERSTONE consortium want to achieve long-term circular economy of EU industry via recycling and reusing resources from industrial water and wastewater streams.
AMIGDALA - plotting pathways towards sustainable industrial production
A European consortium is implementing AMIGDALA, a new Horizon Europe research and innovation project that has kicked off in January 2024. The project will explore pathways for the European industry to become not only sustainable, as mandated by the European Green Deal, but also to remain profitable and resilient. The project received € 7 Million from the Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme.
Jochen Block Award 2024 for Tanja Franken, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg
The Jochen Block Prize 2024 of the German Catalysis Society (GeCatS) goes to Jun.-Prof. Tanja Franken, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. It recognizes her outstanding contributions to the research and further development of catalyst systems for the sustainable synthesis of fuels and basic chemicals
Otto Roelen Medal for Lutz Ackermann, Georg August University of Göttingen /Germany
Professor Dr. Lutz Ackermann, Georg August University of Göttingen /Germany, receives the Otto Roelen Medal 2024. This prize will be awarded by DECHEMA and the German Catalysis Society (GeCatS) in recognition of his fundamental achievements in the functionalization of unreactive bonds with organometallic catalysts in research and application, including electrochemical methods.
