PhoTECH - RUBIN

THE FUTAIR IS CLEAN – under this slogan, and driven by this ambition, the phoTECH alliance aims to tackle air pollutants that are harmful to the environment, the climate and human health, for which there are currently no effective or practicable treatment options. PhoTECH stands for innovative photonic technologies that open up entirely new possibilities for purifying supply and exhaust air flows containing complex or previously unsolved pollutant loads.

The planned collaborative project is intended to further develop photonic technologies and photocatalytic materials – as key enabling technologies within the PhoTECH consortium – and to scale them up to technical-scale production. The planned collaborative project is to be carried out in close coordination with developments in the other collaborative projects and in parallel with them. The scientific and technological developments will be driven largely by the expertise and facilities of the participating research institutes and universities. The resulting innovations for the various sub-areas of the overall project will be transferred to the other consortium projects and scaled up for technical application or the respective product.

The following section outlines the areas that Hof University of Applied Sciences will be working on as part of its sub-project:

• Production of photocatalysts using new coating technologies to enable simple, environmentally friendly and safe production. Coatings on 3D-printed substrate materials are to be tested using spray coating, dip coating, spin coating, sol-gel processes, screen printing and electrochemical coating methods.
• Verification of the new catalysts and manufacturing methods. Long-term studies must scientifically demonstrate that the requirements set by the respective application are met. This concerns, amongst other things, the long-term performance in terms of stability and substance degradation of the various catalysts produced using the different manufacturing methods.