Programme
1st day (October 10th): 9:00 a.m. – 07:00 p.m.
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Registration | |
| 10:00 |
Michael Carus |
Opening words |
| 10:15 |
Dr. Schnabel |
Opening words from the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Research of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia |
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Session I: CO2 economy – Vision, drivers and framework |
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| 10:30 |
Michael Carus nova-Institut GmbH |
An overview on conventional and innovative uses of carbon dioxide and economical aspects for new options for CO2 utilization |
| 11:00 |
Dr. Gernot Klotz European Chemical Industry Council |
A vision of a carbon dioxide economy |
| 11:30 |
Dennis Krämer Dechema e.V. |
Chemical CO2 utilization: current research activities in Germany |
| 12:00 | Lunch | |
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Session II: CO2 purification and technical preparation |
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| 13:30 |
Dr. Sarah Wallus RWE Power AG |
CO2 capture and utilization options for fossil-fired power plants |
| 13:50 |
Dr. Guido Meurer |
Expanding the feedstock range: Isolation and engineering of microorganisms for the production of value products from renewale and waste carbon streams |
| 14:10 |
Sven Petersen Linde Engineering Dresden GmbH |
CO2 capture & purification for an efficient utilization in the chemical industry |
| 14:30 | Coffee Break | |
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Session III: CO2 as carbon source for innovative chemistry |
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| 15:00 |
Prof. Dr. Peter Styring University of Sheffield |
Carbon Dioxide Capture & Utilisation in the Green Economy |
| 15:30 |
Prof. Dr. Michele Aresta National Consortium on Catalysis (CIRCC) |
Stepping towards the artificial photosynthesis: carbon recycling for a sustainable chemical industry |
| 16:00 |
Dr. Harald Strittmatter Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB |
Carbonates and polycarbonates from plant terpenes and CO2 |
| 16:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 17:00 |
Cor Koning DSM Coating Resins |
Novel coating resins based on polycarbonates and poly(ester-co-carbonate)s made by catalytic chain growth polymerization of epoxides with CO2 and with anhydride/CO2 |
| 17:30 |
Prof. Dr. Arno Behr University of Technology Dortmund |
Catalytic hydrogenation of carbon dioxide to formic acid |
| 18:00 | Discussion with speakers from the first day | |
| 19:00 | End of 1st day | |
| 20:00 | Conference Dinner | |
2nd day (October 11th): 8:00 a.m. – 06:30 p.m.
| 8:00 - 9:00 | Registration | |||
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Session IV: CO2 fixation for polymer synthesis |
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| 9:00 |
Dr. Christoph Gürtler Bayer MaterialScience AG |
Perspectives of the material use of CO2 | ||
| 9:15 |
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Rieger University of Technology Munich (TUM) |
Materials for the 21st Century – Can Carbon come from CO2 | ||
| 9:30 |
Dr. Uwe Seemann BASF AG |
CO2-Polymers - A new sustainable polymer class | ||
| 9:45 |
Peter Shepard Novomer |
Commercialization of High Performance CO2 based Polyols | ||
| 10:00 |
Dr. Peter Ferraro Empoyer Materials |
QPAC® Polyalkylene Carbonate Polymers – Past, Present and Future | ||
| 10:15 |
Dr. Siw Fredriksen Norner |
Polypropylene carbonate – challenges and opportunities | ||
| 10:30 | Coffee Break | |||
| 11:00 |
Dr. Myoung-Ahn Ok SK Innovation |
SK Innovation’s Polyalkylene Carbonate Technology: GreenPol | ||
| 11:15 |
Dr. Yves-Marie Corre Université de Bretagne-Sud |
Properties of CO2-based polymers and options for the combination with bio-based polymers | ||
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Session V: Innovative fermentation strategies using CO2 as carbon source |
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| 11:30 |
Dr. Thomas Haas Evonik AG / Creavis GmbH |
Biotechnological Conversion of CO2 | ||
| 11:50 |
Dr. Sean Simpson LanzaTech |
CO and CO2 fermentation, a route from Waste to Fuels and Chemicals at Scale | ||
| 12:10 |
Dr. Hans Reith ECN |
Large-scale carbon recycling via cultivation and biorefinery of seaweeds for production of biobased chemicals and fuels | ||
| 12:30 |
Dr. Jörg-Joachim Nitz Dr. Marzena Gerdom Evonik AG |
Aceton from waste gas – a challenge for engineers and micoorganisms |
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| 12:50 |
Dr. Ludo Diels Vlemisch Institute of Technology (VITO) |
Waste gases CO2 and H2, possible resources for bioplastic (PHB) production | ||
| 13:10 | Lunch | |||
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Session VI: CO2 reduction as starting point for renewable and sustainable fuels |
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| 14:10 |
Dr. Wim Haije University of Delft |
Efficient production of solar fuel using existing large scale production technologies |
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| 14:30 |
Dr. Stephan Rieke |
Power to gas – new ways for fuel production from CO2 | ||
| 15:00 |
Prof. Dr. Jacques Amouroux Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie (ENSCP), Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris |
Carbon dioxide: a raw material for energy storage and a sustainable development |
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| 15:30 |
Paul Wuebben |
Renewable methanol production and end uses from CO2 via geosynthesis in Iceland | ||
| 16:00 | Closing panel discussion with speakers from the second day: „CO2 economy – realistic option or pipe dream?“ | |||
| 16:40 | Innovation award – and the winners are .... | |||
| 17:00 |
Free networking with snack |
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| 18:30 |
End of conference |
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