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Plasma Technologies could offer promising opportunities for green chemistry to support the transition towards a sustainable hydrogen and circular carbon economy. Following the invitation by the Network for a Circular Carbon Economy NK2, 118 international participants came together in an online workshop to learn about the latest developments in the field of thermal and alternative plasma technologies, and its potential contribution to climate protection and a sustainable chemical industry.

On 08.10.2020 the NK2 network met in Beckum. The meeting focused on chemical storage of renewable hydrogen in CO2-neutral fuels. The event took place in "hybrid" form, meaning with presence and online participation. Beside the political classification of the topic by Dr. Joachim Hugo from the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI), different production routes of CO2-neutral fuels were presented by Dr. Franziska Müller-Langer (German Biomass Research Center, DBFZ), Dr. Jens Baumgartner (Sunfire), Prof. Bernd Meyer (Fraunhofer IMWS & IEC, TU Bergakademie Freiberg) and Dr. Peter Seifert (IEC, TU Bergakademie Freiberg).

The “Carbon Discovery Trail” is conceived by the Institute of Energy Process Engineering and Chemical Engineering (IEC) of TU Freiberg and the Fraunhofer IMWS branch lab Circular Carbon Technologies in Freiberg. It is funded by the EU as part of the “Erzgebirge - new region, new chances"-project.

Chemical recycling can be a key for CO2 reduction. Following the invitation of the Network for a Circular Carbon Economy NK2, more than 30 experts from science and industry came together in Freiberg for discussions about existing and future technological options, potential feedstock for chemical recycling and alternative technological routes as well as the contribution of chemical recycling to climate protection and a sustainable chemical industry.

The creation of a European network to strengthen the carbon cycle economy is a key outcome of the German-Polish-Czech workshop “Integrated Technology Development for Effective and Sustainable Utilization of Domestic Carbon Carriers”, which took place in Dresden yesterday.

In the future, research will be conducted at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg on the resource-friendly and climate-neutral use of carbon carriers. Yesterday, Dr. Eva-Maria Stange, the Minister of State at Saxony’s Ministry of Science and the Arts, approved the start-up funding for a research group on carbon cycle technologies. The new research unit is a branch of the Fraunhofer Institute Microstructure of Materials and Systems IMWS in Halle (Saale).

Technology development can contribute significantly to an efficient and environmentally friendly use of domestic carbon resources. This is the result of a two-day workshop with participants from China, Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany, which took place at the invitation of the Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems IMWS in Berlin. Experts from science and industry discussed the potential of the hydrogen economy for a competitive and sustainable chemical industry or new catalysis technologies. They decided to intensify the mutual exchange.

The academy panel about sustainable development and stimuli for new added value in the Lausitz took place on 9. April 2019 in Humboldthaus in Görlitz and received positive feedback.