Deutsch
English
Project manager: Dr. S. Dahle
Funding period: 11/2016 - 10/2018
Funding agency: BMWi
Funding code: 03EFHNI056
Researchers: Dr. S. Dahle, S. van Cayzeele, M. Unseld, H. Nietzel, M. Olschewski, S. Lohan
Plasma-based gas purification
Green and sustainable technologies for climate change and energy transition
The drastic reduction of greenhouse gases is the core objective of the Paris Climate Agreement of December 13, 2015, which is binding for all countries in the world. This primarily concerns CO2 emissions, but also other greenhouse gases. Keeping the air clean is therefore one of the key ecological issues facing modern industrial societies. Despite continuously increasing industrial and agricultural production, Germany has succeeded in improving air quality in many areas. The further significant reduction in immission limits following the Paris Agreement requires new and innovative technologies for exhaust gas and ambient air purification. The development of such technologies will make it possible to comply with strict limit values and will also serve the further development of Germany as a high-tech location. If we succeed in developing such technologies and marketing them worldwide, we can combine the major global ecological benefits with value creation in Germany.
The continuous tightening of limit values for all exhaust gases worldwide for ecological reasons requires the constant development of new technologies. The high requirements are already pushing classic exhaust gas purification systems such as filters, catalytic converters or wet gas scrubbing to their limits in some applications. In addition, innovative approaches are often more resource and energy efficient. Some of these new approaches use modern plasmas for gas modification.
PlasmaGreen is developing the use of such state-of-the-art plasmas to improve air quality, gas treatment and exhaust gas purification, which will be technologically new in some of the application areas and leading in others. We will also be responsible for production and marketing. Our processes purify exhaust air, optimize useful gases and improve indoor air, e.g. in production facilities. In all applications, we will significantly improve both the ecological and economic situation.
The aim of this project, which is funded as part of the BMWI's EXIST funding program, is to further develop the processes tested in the laboratory so that they can be transferred to commercial use.
