Lehrstuhl für Technische Thermodynamik (LTT), RWTH Aachen University

𝐖𝐢𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐠 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐡𝐫𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐤𝐭𝐞? Nachhaltigkeit und Umweltbewusstsein spielen nicht nur im Privatleben eine immer bedeutendere Rolle. Auch in der Wirtschaft ist die Fähigkeit, die Umweltfreundlichkeit von Produkten zu bewerten und das gesamte Produkt- und Dienstleistungsangebot danach auszurichten, eine wichtige und notwendige Kompetenz. 💪🏻 Ökobilanzen stellen in diesem Zusammenhang ein unverzichtbares Instrument dar, um die Umweltauswirkungen über den gesamten Lebenszyklus eines Produktes zu analysieren und zu optimieren. In der aktuellen Marktsituation setzen Unternehmen weltweit verstärkt auf nachhaltige Praktiken, um den steigenden Anforderungen von Verbrauchern und Regulierungsbehörden gerecht zu werden. Die Nachfrage nach Fachkräften, die in der Lage sind, fundierte Ökobilanzen zu erstellen und zu interpretieren, wächst täglich. 📈 Wenn Sie als Unternehmer*in oder Fachkraft die Frage „Wie nachhaltig sind Ihre Produkte wirklich?“ noch nicht beantworten können, besuchen Sie unseren RWTH-Zertifikatskurs “Grundlagen von Ökobilanzen am Beispiel industrieller Produkte”. 💡 Neben dem Know-how von Branchenexperten mit Industriebezug erhalten Sie die notwendigen Kompetenzen zur Beantwortung dieser Frage und lernen die Methodik praxisnah kennen! Und am Ende fragen wir Sie erneut – Wie nachhaltig sind Ihre Produkte? Wir freuen uns auf Ihre Antwort und Ihre Teilnahme am Zertifikatskurs “Grundlagen der Ökobilanzierung am Beispiel industrieller Produkte”. Weitere Informationen zum Kurs finden Sie hier : https://lnkd.in/emKsTnTC 𝐊𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞: › 2. - 6. September | Unterrichtssprache: Englisch Jetzt die letzten zwei Plätze sichern! › 25. - 29. November | Unterrichtssprache: Deutsch Letzte Durchführung für 2024! Partner & Dozierende: Lehrstuhl für Technische Thermodynamik (LTT), RWTH Aachen University, Niklas von der Assen, Carbon Minds, Raoul Meys, Oskar Vögler, Francesco Scalogna #zertifikatskurs #ökobilanzen #industrie #sustainability #lca #lifecycleassessment #rwthaachen #rwthacademy #creatingnewperspectives

⚖️ Reliability vs. Cost in the Operation of Industrial Energy Systems ⚙️ ⚠ Unpredictable grid and component failures threaten the reliability of energy supply. However, optimization-based operating strategies typically neglect these failures. As a result, reliability concerns hinder the efficient operation of industrial energy systems. 🔍 How can we find optimal operating strategies that balance reliability and cost? 🚀 Interested? We are happy to see you at tomorrow's talk at #ECOS2024 (10:00 am, Session 5C)! 🚀

I had the pleasure of attending the SETAC Europe 34th Annual Meeting in Sevilla. I had the opportunity to present our poster on absolute environmental sustainability assessment and design optimization of energy systems. A big thank you to the participants for their valuable feedback and ideas to enhance our research. It was great to spend several days immersed in the LCA community, learning about recent developments in dynamic and prospective LCA, life cycle impact assessment, and many other highly relevant topics.

The open-source Early-STage IMpact Assessment Tool #ESTIMATe is officially out now! Carbon Capture and Utilization (#CCU) processes can offer climate benefits compared to fossil-based chemicals production. However, environmental benefits must be verified in Life Cycle Assessment studies which are often not accessible to chemists, process engineers, and managers. ESTIMATe allows non-#LCA experts to perform early-stage Life Cycle Assessment studies of CCU chemicals using Microsoft Excel. ESTIMATe, a user manual, and installation guidance are available for free in a zenodo archive. Check out our article in #GreenChemistry to find out how ESTIMATe supports chemical process development: https://lnkd.in/e-F227jA Many thanks to Bart Vandegehuchte, Benjamin Jaumard, Miriam Schie, Christiane Reinert, Raoul Meys, and André Bardow for the collaboration on ESTIMATe. It has been a pleasure to work with you!

Thanks #SETACSeville for the engaging discussions and the positive feedback on timex_lca! Amelie Müller and I were really happy to finally share our work on this open-source python package for time-explicit Life Cycle Assessment. By combining the advantages of prospective and dynamic LCA, timex_lca can help you assess the environmental impacts of products and processes over time. You can find a first version of timex_lca on GitHub, including an extensive documentation. We really aimed to make it as beginner-friendly as possible - and we‘re very happy to help if there are any unanswered questions! 😊 For an overview, please check out my poster below. Also, you‘ll find a link to the GitHub Repo in the comments ⬇️

⭐ Excited to share that I've completed an amazing research stay at MIT! 💡 My time there has been filled with great experiences, collaborating with brilliant minds under the mentorship of Prof. William Green. 🌟 Huge thanks to the wonderful members of the Green Group for making this journey unforgettable. 🙏 Huge thanks to the SFB 985 - Functional Microgels and Microgel Systems and the Institute of Technical Thermodynamics (LTT), RWTH Aachen University for their support and for making this journey possible.

Paper alert! 🚨 We are thrilled to announce that our latest article „Bioprocess in-line monitoring and control using Raman spectroscopy and Indirect Hard Modeling (IHM)”, written by David Müller, Marieke Börger, Julia Thien, and Hans-Jürgen Koß, was recently published in Biotechnology and Bioengineering. In this study, we demonstrate that the combination of Raman spectroscopy and IHM enables not only bioprocess monitoring, as we showed in our previous study, but also bioprocess control. For this purpose, we extended our approach for bioprocess monitoring with a simple on-off glucose controller and maintained different predefined glucose set points in glucose to ethanol fermentations by Saccharomyces cerevisiae. I thank all co-authors for the productive and inspiring collaboration! 🎉 For further reading please feel free to take a look at the article, it is open access! https://lnkd.in/eZTUC_NY DOI: 10.1002/bit.28724 #raman #spectroscopy #processanalyticaltechnology #PAT #bioprocesses #thermodynamics Lehrstuhl für Technische Thermodynamik (LTT), RWTH Aachen University

📢 Excited to announce our latest publication on the electrochemical reduction of CO2 to ethylene (eCO2R)! 🔍 In our study, we used life cycle assessment to support the development of novel catalysts for eCO2R, aiming to improve the carbon footprint of eCO2R compared to currently fossil-fuel-based ethylene production. 🔑 Key findings reveal: -Renewable electricity at scale is crucial for eCO2R's carbon footprint advantage over fossil-fuel-based ethylene production. -CO2 sourcing for eCO2R must come from atmospheric capture (e.g. direct air capture units) for climate benefits. -Consideration of shifting environmental burdens across impact categories is vital for further eCO2R development. Special thanks to Marco Löffelholz, Jonas Weidner, Jens Osiewacz, Dr. Hesam Ostovari, Katja Weichert, Wolfgang Schuhmann, Thomas Turek and Niklas von der Assen for their cooperation. https://lnkd.in/ePNpgkyS

🎯 What is the purpose of DACCS? ⬇ Remove carbon from the atmosphere 💡 That’s why we suggest to optimise DACCS for maximum net CO2 removal.   Why is this important? 🌍 For the climate: remove more CO2 (removal efficiency) and in particular do so much faster (removal rate) 📈 For the business: increase revenue (more removal certificates with same facility) 👩🔧 For the developers: learn how to adjust process operation accordingly (e.g. switch from 🔥 T-VSA to 💨 steam-assisted VSA when electricity gets cleaner) 💻 For researchers: get the underlying open-source DACCS model (soon) and let’s advance DACCS to become as cheap and efficient as possible   I am really happy and proud that our article is on "Environmental Process Optimisation of Adsorption-based DACCS" is now published in Energy & Environmental Science! Thank you and congratulations to Patrik Postweiler, Daniel Rezo, Dr. Andrej Gibelhaus and Mirko Engelpracht.   And stay tuned: there’s more cool #DACCS stuff coming soon 😊 https://lnkd.in/e3Uvmxgg