New process for recovering valuable elements from wood ash

Processing of previous incineration waste as a secondary raw material

25-Nov-2024 - The ash produced when wood is burned in heating and power plants contains valuable nutrients, but also environmentally critical metals. A team led by Professor Harald Thorwarth from Rottenburg University of Applied Sciences, who is also associated with the University of Tübingen, and Professor ...

Effects of chemical mixtures: Neurotoxic effects add up

Study demonstrates for the first time the toxicological relevance of chemical mixtures as they occur in humans

22-Oct-2024 - Chemicals are omnipresent today: they enter our bodies through food, air or the skin. But how do these complex mixtures of chemicals affect our health? In a study published in the journal Science, a research team from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) has shown that chemicals ...

Better recycling of plastic packaging: New process extracts fragrances

Environmentally compatible and climate-friendly recycling for high-quality "post-consumer" recyclates

25-Apr-2023 - What doesn't smell good is hard to recycle. This simple rule also applies to the growing volume of plastic waste worldwide. One way to recycle it in an environmentally compatible and climate-friendly manner as high-quality post-consumer recyclates is through improved sorting and reprocessing. ...

Study analyzes technologies’ climate efficiency in removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere

One process has similar CO2 footprint to e-mobility

02-Nov-2021 - Technologies for the removal of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere (direct air capture, or DAC for short) are already in use, but neither their actual benefits for climate protection nor their other environmental impact have yet to be investigated. A research team led by Kavya Madhu and ...

Analytik Jena Science Award Honors Outstanding Scientific Articles

28-Jun-2019 - The first two Analytik Jena Science Awards are given to Dr. Carlos Abad of the Federal Institute of Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Berlin, and Natalie Rangno of the Institute of Wood Technology Dresden. With this award, Analytik Jena is honoring scientific articles in which Analytik Jena ...