ACHEMA 2024 sets the tone for a more sustainable and competitive process industry

17-Jun-2024 - At ACHEMA 2024, the world's leading trade show for the process industries, 2,842 exhibitors from 56 nations showed 106,001 participants from 141 countries the latest equipment and innovative processes for the chemical, pharmaceutical and food processing industries at the Frankfurt exhibition ...

TU Graz Bundles Its Strengths in Biotechnology and Artificial Intelligence

09-May-2024 - In a multidisciplinary research project, researchers from the biosciences, process engineering and computer science want to massively increase efficiency in the development of new enzymes and process optimization. This should even enable the breakdown of forever chemicals. Graz University of ...

Looking for Start-up (ideas) in chemical engineering, chemistry and biotechnology

ACHEMA Start-Up Award

12-Apr-2023 - In the run-up to ACHEMA 2024, DECHEMA, the Business Angels FrankfurtRheinMain and the High-Tech Gründerfonds are announcing the ACHEMA Start-up Award to support creators of tomorrow in paving the way for innovations in chemistry, process engineering and biotechnology! On the road from ...

POWTECH 2023: A flying start with new themes and technologies

Trade Fair to expressly include the processing and handling of fluids

06-Dec-2022 - POWTECH is getting off to a flying start. The Leading International Processing Trade Fair will take place in Nuremberg from 26 to 28 September 2023 – almost exactly a year after POWTECH 2022. Once again, more than 700 exhibitors from many countries will draw a large attendance of regional and ...

ACHEMA 2022 offers new impulses for the process industry

Final Report ACHEMA 2022

29-Aug-2022 - At ACHEMA 2022, the world's leading trade show for the process industry, over 2,200 exhibitors from more than 50 countries showcased the latest equipment and innovative processes for the chemical, pharmaceutical and food industries at the Frankfurt fairgrounds from 22 to 26 August. Whether it was ...

Deep Learning despite sparse data

DFG research group focuses on evaluation of chemical process data

29-Jul-2022 - The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding the new research group "Deep Learning on sparse chemical process data" for four years with around 3.5 million euros. It is coordinated at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern (TUK). The group is working on making Deep Learning methods, a ...

Crystals that clean natural gas

31-Oct-2018 - Removing the troublesome impurities of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and carbon dioxide (CO2) from natural gas could become simpler and more effective using a metal-organic framework (MOF) developed at KAUST. Upgrading natural gas in this way could help Saudi Arabia to make greater and cleaner use of ...

Materials Testing: Detecting damages in non-magnetic steel through magnetism

24-Jul-2018 - Wear, corrosion, material fatigue - these signs of degradation are common to most materials. This makes it all the more important to detect damage early, preferably on the micro scale. Magnetic test methods are often used for this purpose, which was previously impossible with non-magnetic steel. ...

Reducing power plants' freshwater consumption with new silica filters

20-Oct-2017 - Power plants draw more freshwater than any other consumer in the United States, accounting for more than 50 percent of the nation's freshwater use at about 500 billion gallons daily. To help save this water, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a new silica filter for power ...

20th POWTECH brought the world of process engineering together

29-Sep-2017 - After three eventful and successful days, the 20th POWTECH in Nuremberg has come to a close. The most international edition of POWTECH to date, it brought together 835 exhibitors from 29 countries in its six exhibition halls. Thirty-nine percent of the exhibitors came from outside Germany, a new ...