ACHEMA 2012

ACHEMA is the global forum of the processing industry and the trend-setting technology summit for chemical engineering, environmental protection and biotechnology.

With more than 900 lectures and around 27,000 participants, the congress programme formed the second cornerstone of ACHEMA 2012 alongside the exhibition.

The programme included a session of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) on the topic "Research and Development for Securing our Raw Material Supply". During this session, the research results from the following joint projects were presented:

• Building aggregates
• Extracting residues from mining waste
• Dezincification of steel scrap

Besides these r² projects, projects were also presented from the BMBF’s "KMU innovativ - Ressourceneffizienz" scheme, a funding programme to encourage resource and energy efficiency in innovative SMEs. The programme in English included the following contributions:

• BMBF - Research and Development for Securing our Raw Material Supply
  L. Mennicken, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Bonn
• Strategies for sustainable resource management
  M. Faulstich, S. Egner, M. Herms, TU München
• Process for the bypass-pre-dezincification of steel scraps
  I. Schönfelder, TU Clausthal
• reACT - recovery and reuse of platinum group metals from fuel cells
  R. Wegner, ReMetall Drochow GmbH/D
• reACT - recovery and reuse of platinum group metals from fuel cells. Durable, highly active electrocatalysts for PEM fuel cells cells, using carbon nanotubes and platinum from recycling sources
  E. Fokkens, Hydrogen and Informatics Institute of Applied Technologies gGmbH, Schwerin/D
  
• An integrated process for innovative extraction of metals from mine dumps
  G. Borg, University of Halle-Wittenberg/D; M. Du Bois, Neue Mansfelder Bergwerkschaft GmbH, Helbra/D; R. Gorny, CONMET GmbH, Aachen/D; B. Friedrich, H. Wotruba, RWTH Aachen/D; H. Morgenroth, UVR-FIA GmbH, Freiberg/D
• Heterogeneous construction and demolition waste as raw material for the production of light weight aggregates
  A. Schnell, University of Weimar/D; F. Splittgerber, E.S.C.H. Engineering Service Center und Handel GmbH, Unterwellenborn/D