Research Topics

The Thermal Process Technology department focuses on research and development activities in the following areas:

Treatment of household, commercial and production waste as well as sewage sludge
- Pyrolysis in the rotary kiln
- Gasification in the circulating fluidized bed
- Combustion on the grate
New products and improvement of industrial processes
- Process development from initial ideas on a laboratory scale
- Improvement of yields
- Production of synthesis gas through gasification
Gas purification and treatment
- Dry sorption
- Scrubbing process
- _{CO2 scrubbing}
- Desulphurization of synthesis gas
Emission measurements and suggestions for minimizing emissions
- Mobile measuring devices for trace elements and main components
- Measurements at industrial plants, power plants and waste incineration plants
Chemical-physical modeling of chemical engineering processes
- Pyrolysis of carbon-rich materials incl. gas treatment
- Grate model for waste incineration
- Waste gas cleaning with scrubbers after waste incineration plants
- _{CO2 scrubbing} with amines