Program

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Wednesday, 2 March

13:00 - 13:45 Welcome Session 07:00 - 07:45
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  Welcome address by Kai Sundmacher, Spokesperson of SmartProSys  
  Welcome address by Michael Lehman, Ministry of Science, Energy, Climate Protection and Evironment of the State of Saxony-Anhalt  
  Welcome address by Jens Strackeljan, President of the Otto von Guericke University  
  Introductory presentation by Kai Sundmacher, Spokesperson of SmartProSys  
13:45 - 14:00 Short Break 07:45 - 08:00
     
14:00 - 16:00 Session "Mechanical & Thermal Preprocessing" 08:00 - 10:00
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  Chair: Alba Dieguez Alonso  
14:00 Marc-Olivier Coppens: Sustainable Process Systems through Nature-Inspired Chemical Engineering 08:00
14:35 Berend van Wachem: The Application of Discrete Element Modelling in Gas-Solid Processes  08:35
15:00 Christos Markides: High-efficiency hybrid solar combined heating, cooling and power systems for distributed applications
09:00
15:35 Claus-Dieter Ohl: Cavitation Bubbles are Micromachines for Wet Physical Processing

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16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break 10:00 - 10:30
     
16:30 - 18:30 Session "Chemical & Biological Decomposition Processes" 10:30 - 12:30
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  Chair: Dominique Thévenin  
16:30 Martin Gräbner: Chemical Recycling by Pyrolysis and Gasification 10:30
17:05 Alba Diéguez Alonso: New Insights into the Influence of Intra-Particle Transport and Inorganic Species on the Pyrolysis Mechanism of Lignocellulosic Biomass 11:05
17:30 Lars Blank: Microbial Upcycling of Plastic: from Scenario Evaluation to the Wet Lab 11:30
18:05 Liisa Rihko-Struckmann: Closing the circular cycles for polyamides? 12:05
18:30 - 19:30 Dinner/Lunch Break 12:30 - 13:30
19:30 - 21:00 Flash Presentations ("Poster Sessions") 13:30 - 15:00
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Thursday, 3 March

13:00 - 15:00 Session "Supply Chain & Sustainability Management" 07:00 - 09:00
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  Chair: Julia Arlinghaus  
13:00 Grit Walther: Recycling and Recovery Infrastructure for Composite Materials – Techno-economic, logistic and environmental perspectives
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13:35 Melanie Jaeger-Erben: Doing better with less – the role of sufficiency for a sustainable Circular Economy 07:35
14:00 Styliani Avraamidou: A Systems Engineering Framework for the Optimization of Circular Economy Supply Chains 08:00
14:35 Marlin Ulmer: Optimization for Stochastic Dynamic Decision Processes 08:35
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break 09:00 - 09:30
     
15:30 - 17:30 Session "Circular Society - Research at the Interface of Technology, Societal Support and Individual Appropriation" 09:30 - 11:30
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  Chair: Ellen Matthies  
15:30 Christian Klöckner: Where, Why, and How Psychology is Relevant in Circular Economy – Some Reflections Based on Large Interdisciplinary Projects 09:30
16:05 Ellen Matthies: Do Simple Heuristics Make Us Smart in the Transition towards a Sustainable Society? 10:05
16:30 Sina Leipold: Grown Up Overnight - What We Learn from Narratives about the Circular Bio-Economy 10:30
17:05 Michael Böcher: Bioeconomic Solutions for Sustainability? Institutions and Political Conflicts as Important Driving Forces for Bioeconomy Policy 11:05
17:30 - 17:45 Short Break 11:30 - 11:45
     
17:45 - 19:00 Panel Discussion "The Challenges of Chemical Industry on the Way towards a Circular Economy" 11:45 - 13:00
 

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Friday, 4 March

13:00 - 15:00 Session "Chemical & Biological (Re-)Synthesis" 07:00 - 09:00
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  Chair: Kai Sundmacher  
13:00 Alexei Lapkin: (Bio)Chemical Process Development aided by Robotics and Machine Learning 07:00
13:35 Nora Kulak: Optimization of Metal Catalysts for Oxidation Reactions 07:35
14:00 Peter Seeberger: Continuous Flow Synthesis of Medicines 08:00
14:35 Steffen Klamt: Enforced ATP Wasting as a Means for Bioprocess Intensification 08:35
15:00 - 15:30 Coffe Break 09:00 - 09:30
     
15:30 - 17:30 Session "Systems Engineering & Computational Methods" 09:30 - 11:30
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  Chair: Sebastian Sager  
15:30 Ignacio Grossmann: Recent Advances in Computational Methods for the Discrete and Continuous Optimization of Energy Systems 09:30
16:05 Peter Benner: Reduced-order Modeling Enables Digital Twins for Smart Process Engineering 10:05
16:30 Fengqi You: Quantum Computing and Deep Learning for Process Systems Optimization and Data Analytics 10:30
17:05 Achim Kienle: Towards model based control of PHA biopolymer production 11:05
17:30 - 18:00 Closing Session 11:30 - 12:00
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  Achim Kienle  

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