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As part of the Chemistry Days 2022, several mini symposia will again take place.
No registration at the Chemistry Days is required to participate.
A GÖCH “Get Together” will take place after the mini symposia.
Location: Gusshausstrasse 25/29, 1040 Vienna
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Abstract: Unsustainable resources consumption and linear production models are causing severe impacts on the environment. New innovative ways to produce the same products with lower environmental, climate and health impacts, and circular use of recycled or renewable sourced raw material, are the key components of enhanced sustainability in the downstream chemicals industry and required to make the transition towards a sustainable and a circular economy. Besides a common societal awareness, significant upscaling in the current use of circular and sustainable feedstock is therefore needed. This will enable OMV together with Borealis to provide a holistic sustainable and circular economy for various segments.
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Dr. Stefan Pirker ist seit Oktober 2019 als Head of Technology und Innovation Management Chemical Recycling/Plastic to Oil bei OMV in Schwechat tätig. Er ist seit über 25 Jahren erfolgreich im Management von F&E und Innovation in internationalen österreichischen Industrieunternehmen tätig. Bevor er zu OMV kam, war er in verschiedenen Managementpositionen als Leiter von F&E Einheiten, Operations und im Business Development bei RHI AG und Treibacher Industrie AG tätig. Er studierte Chemie an der technischen Universität Wien und promovierte dort 1993.
Dr. Stefan Pirker has been Head of Technology and Innovation Management Chemical Recycling/Plastic to Oil at OMV in Schwechat since October 2019. He has been successfully managing R&D and innovation in international Austrian industrial companies for over 25 years. Before joining OMV, he held various management positions as head of R&D units, operations and business development at RHI AG and Treibacher Industrie AG. He studied chemistry at the Technical University of Vienna and received his doctorate there in 1993.
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Thu. September 22 | 10.30am – The next generation in building a sustainable and circular economy industry
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Wednesday 10:30-12:00 | ||||
Lecture hall EI7 | Lecture hall EI8 | Lecture hall EI9 | Lecture hall EI10 | |
Topic | Sustainable Feedstocks A | Energy Storage A | Open Topic A | Carbon Capture, Sustainability and Circular Economy |
Chair | Tanja Wrodnigg | Christina Toigo | Florian Rudroff | Franz Winter |
10:30 | Alexey Cherevan – Molecular polyoxo- and thiometalate clusters as a bridge between homogeneous and heterogeneous photocatalysis | Christian Berger – Triple-conducting perovskites as cathode materials for protonic ceramic fuel cells: elucidation of proton conductivity and mobility | Dennis Svatunek – Flexible Molecules React Faster: Mechanistic Insights into the Bioorthogonal Reactivity of Tetrazines | Thomas Mairegger – CO2 electro-reduction on Mo2C in non-aqueous electrolyte |
10:45 | Karin Ratzenböck – Water as a monomer: Synthesis of a polyethersulfone and its use as polymer electrolyte | Christina Nader – Ba(Ce,Fe,Y)O3-δ composites for protonic ceramic fuel cells | Sabrina Püschmann – Synthesis of Bisacylpolysilanes and the following Aldol Reaction | Samar Batool – [Mo3S13]2– thiomolybdate cluster as a stable and efficient cocatalyst for photocatalytic H2 evolution reaction |
11:00 | Elisabeth Billich – Profiling of Functional Groups in Lignosulfonates by SEC-offline-FTIR | Edith Bucher – Materials for sustainable and efficient energy storage and conversion in electrochemical solid oxide cells |
Herwig Prascha – Activity-Based Protein Profiling of Carbohydrate Processing Enzymes: A Proof-of-Concept Study |
Heidi Annemarie Schwartz – Two-Component Systems as Photoactive Functional Materials |
11:15 | Ellie Neige – TiO2 and BaTiO3 nanoparticles: separation of photogenerated charges | Katarina Gugujonovic – Perovskite-organic tandem solar cells | Rolf Breinbauer – Small-Molecule Inhibitors Targeting Lipolysis in Mice and Human Adipocytes | Hendrikus W. G. van Herwijnen – Wood adhesives based on domestic protein sources |
11:30 | Florian Schrenk – Novel phases and shifting mechanisms: The exciting world of high temperature dry reforming of methane observed with in-situ spectroscopy. | Florian Glöcklhofer – Switching between local and global aromaticity in conjugated macrocycles enables high-performance organic battery electrodes | Barbara Sohr – Rapid Inactivatable Proteolysis Targeting Chimeras (RIPTACs) – a bioorthogonal tool to study intracellular processes | Klara Saller – Biobased Polyesters – Advanced Characterization for the Systematic Development of New Materials |
11:45 | Gerhild Katharina Wurzer – A new solvent system to analyze functional groups of lignosulfonates by 31P NMR | Peter Fürk – Polar side-chains: A convenient way to modify both solubility and permittivity of perylene-based acceptors | Kaja Liepert – Synthesis of monofluorinated rare sugars | Sándor B. Ötvös – Sustainable flow synthesis of chiral active pharmaceutical ingredients |
Wednesday 13.00-14:30 | ||||
Lecture hall EI7 | Lecture hall EI8 | Lecture hall EI9 | Lecture hall EI10 | |
Sustainable Feedstocks B | Energy Storage B | Open Topic B | Open Topic C | |
Chair | Walter Wukovits | Oliver Diwald | Stefan Baudis | Christoph Rameshan |
13:00 | Irina Delidovich – Separation of diols, polyols, and saccharides in biorefineries | Lena Schmieder – Reversible gas-solid reaction systems for thermochemical energy storage in a suspension reactor | Ian Teasdale – Phosphorus-based biodegradable synthetic polymers | Stephan Hohloch – Synthesis and Reactivity of Anilidophosphine Supported Lanthanide Complexes |
13:15 | Philipp Petermeier – Upscaled one-pot cascade for modular synthesis of bio-based monomers | Hedda Drexler – Changing catalytic activity and stability by morphological fine tuning of exsolved nanoparticles | Manuel Pühringer – Biomimetic Glues – Immitation of sticky nature | Rudolf Werner Soukup – “Die Mikrochemie, eine österreichische Wissenschaft”. Meilensteine der Entwicklung der Mikrochemie |
13:30 | Tanja Wrodnigg – SugarFun2: Carbohydrate functionalised Carbohydrates | Sreejith P Nandan – Supported {Co2W11} polyoxometalate clusters as co-catalysts for photocatalytic water oxidation reaction | Johanna Templ – Mono-selective N-methylation of Amides, Indoles, and related Structures using Quarternary Ammonium Salts as Solid Methylating Agents | Sarah Bierbaumer – Cyclic light-dependent sulfoxide deracemisation |
13:45 | Jessica Pichler – Chemical characterization and tribological behavior of spent coffee grounds oil used as potential lubricant component |
Nina Biedermann – The Indium-Mediated Acyloxyallyation – A Tool for the Elongation of Aldoses Towards Non-Natural Sugar Alcohols as Potential Phase Change Materials |
Adea Loxha – Tuning the Hierarchical Chirality of Gold Nanoclusters | Stefan Weber – Manganese(I) Carbonyl Alkyl Complexes: From Hydrogenation to Hydrofunctionalization |
14:00 | Sarah Keck – Lignin-based photopolymers: renewable materials for 3D printing | Michael Elsaesser – Carbon Spherogel Monoliths – Black, Green, Hybrid and Beyond | Patrick Walter Fritz – Tetraoxa[8]circulenes – Exciting Building Blocks for Porous Organic Polymers and Metal-Organic Frameworks | Hasan Razouq – Functionalization of Intergranular Regions inside Alkaline Earth Oxide Nanoparticle derived Ceramics |
14:15 |
Stefan Giparakis – Chemoenzymatic production of fragrance and flavor aldehydes |
Christina Toigo – Enhancing battery sustainability by aqueous slurry preparation and processing – optimization of rheological properties | Thomas Böttcher – Exploring and Exploiting the Chemistry of Microbial Interactions | Tim Gläsel – Phosphinine Formation by Cobalt-Catalyzed Cycloltrimerization |
“C2PAT”is a joint CCU project of Lafarge, Verbund, OMV, and Borealis to create a blueprint for the decarbonization of hard-to-abate industries and will help to reduce fossil-feedstock dependency.
While we are starting with a comparatively small exploration plant in Austria, the project intends to set the trend for the industry transformation.
Circularity and our ability to utilize waste streams like organic waste, used plastics, and CO2as feedstock instead of virgin raw materials are key for a climate neutral society and an opportunity to reduce fossil feedstockby “keeping carbon in the cycle”!
C2PAT aims to demonstrate a novel, first-of-its-kind cross-sectoral carbon value circle at industrial scale. Industrial CO2released during cement production is captured (10,000 tons/y for demo plant) and transformed with green hydrogen into feedstock for a variety of renewable based chemicals and value-add plastics products of top quality and footprint performance.
The overall system is based on the integration and joint operation of different technologies that will be combined into one novel holistic value chain. A facility cluster comprising a carbon capture unit, a water electrolysis to produce green hydrogen, a new synthesis route via Reverse Water-Gas Shift Reaction and Fischer Tropsch Synthesis located at the site of Lafarge’s cement plant in Mannersdorf. Intermediates will be processed at OMV/Borealis sites into olefins and ultimately renewable based value-add plastics.
By demonstrating the feasibility, C2PAT will elaborate innovative operational and business models to develop a scale-up concept for the carbon value circle. The key innovation is using CO2emission from cement production as feedstock for petrochemicals -an integrated and cross-sectoral approach that has never been demonstrated before.
C2PAT also demonstrates a circular economy approach in the cement and chemical sector given that renewable based plastics can be reused and recycled in various recycling streams. C2PAT will explore the market potential for renewable based products, developmodels for control as well as for holistically optimizing the overall value circle.
New know-how will be gathered to transfer the demo plant to the next scaling step: A full-scale plant which can convert almost 700,000 tons of CO2/y into renewable basedproducts. Taking the next steps towards a climate neutral economy will require the right financial as well as favorable regulatory framework conditions at the EU and Austrian national level.
With this ambitious collaboration, Lafarge, OMV, VERBUND and Borealis are showcasing an innovative and viable solution for the transformation towards a carbon neutral economy in Europe.
The joint project is designed in 3 phases: In phase 1, based on a co-signed MoU the partners are evaluating and developing a joint strategy for project development and funding opportunities, business modelling and process engineering. Based on the results of phase 1, a cluster of industrial pilot plants in the Eastern part of Austria could be technically developed and realized until 2023/25 in phase 2. Phase 3 entails the full realization of the presented vision by scaling up to the full size of almost 700,000 tons of CO2/y to be captured will demonstrate the global scalability of the project.
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Thu. September 22 | 9.00am – Carbon2Product (C2PAT)-Transforming the Green Deal’s aspiration into reality!
The European Green Deal presented by the European Commission December 2019 aims at transforming the European economic system to make it independent from the use of fossil fuels by 2050. By then the European Union should be „climate neutral“, meaning that the net balance for Green House Gas emissions should be zero.
This presentation will introduce the essential elements of the Green Deal and specifically address these issues: Extent of global warming, its visible impact and projections for the future, international activities and agreements to combat climate change, the specific EU Climate Change Program including the overall reduction goals for the emission of Green House Gases, the specific emissions of the various sectors, implementation tools to achieve these ambitious goals („Emission Trading System“ and „Effort Sharing Decision“), planned measures and possible technical solutions for the sectors production of electricity, transport, industry, buildings and agriculture, open questions and possible costs of this transformation, global developments referring to the implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement, possible scenarios for the progress in achieving the goal of limiting global warming to 2°C, respectively 1,5°C and necessary adaptation measures.
https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/priorities-2019-2024/european-green-deal_en
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Tue. September 20 | 09.30am – A European Green Deal: Challenges for Science, Technology and Society.