PhoTECH

RUBIN - Photonic processes as a technology basis for cleaning indoor air, industrial air, biogenic air and urban air

Support programme

The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is funding the joint project

Background

THE FUTAIR IS CLEAN - under this slogan, but also with this claim, the phoTECH alliance wants to declare war on air pollutants that are harmful to the environment, climate and health and for which there are currently no effective or practicable treatment options. PhoTECH stands for innovative photonic technologies that open up completely new possibilities for the purification of supply and exhaust air streams with complex or unresolved pollutant loads.

Objective

The planned joint project will serve to further develop photonic technologies and photocatalytic materials as key basic technologies in the PhoTECH group of companies and scale them up to production on a technical scale. The planned joint project is to be carried out in close co-operation with the developments of the other joint projects and in parallel. The scientific and technological developments will largely be driven forward with the expertise and equipment of the participating research institutions and universities. The resulting innovations for the various sub-areas of the overall project will be transferred to the other collaborative projects and scaled up to the technical application or the respective product.

Contents

The areas that Hof University of Applied Sciences will be working on in its sub-project are presented below:

  • Production of photocatalysts using new coating technologies to enable simple, environmentally friendly and safe production. Coatings on 3D printed substrates are to be tested using spray coating, dip coating, spin coating, solgel processes, screen printing and electrochemical coating methods.
  • Verification of the new catalysts and production methods. The fulfilment of the requirements set by the respective application must be scientifically proven in long-term tests. This concerns, among other things, the long-term performance in terms of stability and substance degradation of the various catalysts from the different production methods.
Source: Own presentation

Project partners

MFPA
life cycle material engineering
Materials research and testing institute at the Bauhaus University Weimar
Coudraystrasse 9
D-99423 Weimar

University of Applied Sciences Erfurt
Altonaer Str. 25
99085 Erfurt

Addressed SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals)

Contact person

Simon Mehling

Research assistant

Photonics and water (PhoWa)

Portrait of Prof Dr Tobias Schnabel, research group leader for photonics and water at the Institute for Sustainable Water Systems at Hof University of Applied Sciences.

Prof. Dr Tobias Schnabel

Research group leader

Photonics and water (PhoWa)

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