Allgemein

From March 12 to 13, 2025, the 2nd Annual Meeting of the DECHEMA Section Energy, Chemistry and Climate took place at DECHEMA House in Frankfurt am Main. The focus was on industrial heat pumps, electrification of processes, green molecules and synthetic fuels. In addition to Prof. Jürgen Karl, the Ch...

From March 17 to 18, 2025, the annual meeting 2025 of the DECHEMA specialist groups Waste Treatment and Resource Recovery (AuW), High Temperature Technology (HTT), and Raw Materials (ROH) took place in Dresden. Arkya Sanyal presented his poster with the title “Characterizing Fluidized Bed Bubbling P...

On 5 February 2025, our chair was represented by Natalia Luna-Jaspe and Nora Elhaus on Frankenfernsehen. In the report on the path to climate neutrality in the Nuremberg metropolitan region, the two provide insights into research into the energy and heat transition at local level. The report can be ...

On 9 and 10 January, Maximilian Weitzer and Niklas Hehmke took part in the kick-off meeting for the EU project STARTREC in Grenoble (France). Representatives from RGS Development, voestalpine, K1-met, Tractebel, Ökofen, the Centre Spatial de Liège and the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Ene...

The ABBY-Net Summer School will take place from August 2 to 9, 2025. The venue for the Summer School is Barrier Lake Station in Kananaskis, about 80 km west of Calgary, Alberta. During the week-long summer school, students will attend seminars in the fields of energy systems, ecosystems, energy e...

The annual excursion for the Renewable Energies lecture, organized by the Chair of Energy Process Engineering, took place from December 2 to December 4, 2024, with 18 students participating. The first day featured a visit to the Leipzig electricity exchange (EEX), where students gained insights i...

On 21 November, the workshop on "Hydrogen from biogenic sources" took place at the Chair of Energy Process Engineering. We welcomed around 30 participants from industry and research. As a conclusion to the "BiogasGoesHydrogen" project, the results, necessary requirements and possible scenarios were ...

Maximilian Weitzer represented the Chair of EVT at this year's conference of the DKV from 20th to 22nd November in Dresden. In his presentation, he presented the advantages of flexible fluid mixtures for high-temperature heat pumps and Organic Rankine Cycles by means of experimental results and simu...

On 18 November 2024, outstanding Bachelor's and Master's theses in the field of energy research were honoured at the EnCN Energy Awards ceremony. We are particularly proud that Arkya Sanyal and Moritz Stahl were honoured for their excellent Master's theses. Arkya Sanyal received the prize for his th...

On the 31st of October 2014, the Scientists for Future Symposium entitled "Opportunities and Obstacles of the Energy Transition" took place at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU). Around 170 people interested in the topic took part in the various presentations over the course...