In December 2020, the European Council decided to raise the EU’s climate ambition on the way to EU greenhouse gas neutrality by 2050.
The “Energy Transition (Energiewende)” from the conventional fossil-nuclear system to renewable energy supply for the industrial manufacturing industry is a step change requiring innovations, high investments and continuous improvement in a short period of time. Thermal processes with their comparatively high energy consumption play a key role in this transformation. The scientific, political, and regulatory aspects of this mega topic for the thermoprocessing industry will be highlighted.
Participation in the symposium is free of charge for trade show visitors. This makes it possible to make an on-site decision at short notice in order to find out about the latest developments in research and development for industrial furnaces and thermoprocess technologies.
VDMA Metallurgy is the partner of THERMPROCESS. Together with the Research Association for Industrial Furnace Engineering FOGI, it organizes the Ecometals Forum and the Thermprocess Forum 2023. The event will be moderated by the “Department for Industrial Furnaces and Heat Engineering (IOB) at RWTH Aachen University”.
Green thermoprocess technology
Date: 12. Juni 2023 Time: 11:25 - 17:30 h free of charge lectures
11:25 – 11:30 Welcome Herbert Pfeifer, Department for Industrial Furnaces and Heat Engineering, RWTH Aachen University
Session 1: Thermoprocess technology and energy transition – Potential and challenges
11:30 – 12:00 Future energy markets and supply – The big change? Matthias Zelinger, VDMA Head of Climate&Energy
12:00 – 12:30 CO2-neutral process heat generation – The potential and challenges in Germany Matthias Rehfeldt, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI
12:30 – 13:00 Carbon Footprint – Significance and challenges for thermoprocess technology Carsten Gondorf, Department for Industrial Furnaces and Heat Engineering, RWTH Aachen University
13:00 -14:00 h: Lunch break
Session 2: The potential of research programs and networks as enablers for new technologies
14:00 – 14:30 Research Funding and Energy Research Networks René Gail, Project Management Jülich (PtJ)
14:30 – 15:00 Joint research for sustainable industrial furnace and thermoprocess technology Joachim G. Wünning, FOGI - Research Association for Industrial Furnace Engineering
15:00 – 15:30 Cluster Decarbonisation in Industries (CDI) – One-Stop- Shop for a decarbonised industrial world Nadine Barthel, Cluster Decarbonisation in Industries (CDI)
15:30 -16:00 h: Coffee break
Session 3: Examples from research and development for green thermoprocess technology
16:00 – 16:30 Electric heating – The potential and challenges for defossilization of thermoprocess technology Egbert Baake, Institute of Electrotechnology, Leibniz University Hannover
16:30 – 17:00 Hydrogen in thermoprocess technology – Lead technology project TTgoesH2 Hartmut Krause, TU Bergakademie Freiberg
17:00 – 17:30 Hydrogen in thermoprocess technology – Horizon Europe project HyInHeat Nico Schmitz, Department for Industrial Furnaces and Heat Engineering, RWTH Aachen University
