Guests from politics find out about sustainability
MEP Dr Udo Bullmann (SPD) and city parliamentarian Anne Marquardt (SPD) as guests
2023/09/05 by Anne Schäfer/sk
On 01 September 2023, MEP Dr Udo Bullmann (SPD), Chair of the Subcommittee on Human Rights of the European Parliament, and Anne Marquardt, SPD candidate for the Hessian State Parliament in the constituency Darmstadt-Stadt 1, visited the TU Darmstadt. The focus of the visit was on the diverse contributions of the TU Darmstadt to successful transformation processes in order to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The programme also included a discussion with scientists from Clean Circles and a visit to the test benches.
In conversation with researchers, they impressively explained which solutions for urgent questions of a sustainable future are already being developed today in the projects for which they are responsible. Scientists in Clean Circles are researching how metals can be used as an energy carrier for a climate-neutral circular economy. Professor Christian Hasse and Professor Michèle Knodt illustrated how iron dusts in particular can be produced, transported and released to rethink energy production globally. They outlined how regulatory framework conditions can be (re)designed and how global energy partners can be selected based on criteria. In her presentation of the DELTA project (Darmstadt Energy Laboratory for Technologies in Application), Bernadette Lang-Eurisch explained how the transformation of tomorrow's energy system is already being tested today in Darmstadt as a real laboratory. Together with a large number of regional cooperation partners, projects are being implemented in the city area to reduce emissions, optimise capacities of the local energy infrastructure and initiate new business models.
At the end of the visit, Bullmann and Marquardt were guests at the Clean Circles test stands. Here, Dr.-Ing. Benjamin Böhm demonstrated how both the behaviour of individual metal particles and complex combustion processes are analysed in various experimental setups in preparation for scaling up for use on an industrial scale.
