Conference on Technology Towards Zero Waste and Zero Carbon (TEC2ZERO)

Session

OS 2

OS 2

9 Oct 2025, 12:00

HS 32 (Campus Grifflenberg)

Description

9.10.2025, Vormittag

18. Automated Detection of Anthropogenic Rare Earth Element Contaminations

09/10/2025, 12:00

Critical Raw Materials (including possible toxicity and environmental impact)

Abstract TEC2ZERO

The rare earth elements (REEs) are among the most crucial metals for high-tech and green energy applications and are considered critical raw materials. For example, neodymium (Nd) and dysprosium (Dy) are major constituents of wind turbines, with as much as several hundred kilograms in a single wind turbine magnet. The progress of high-tech applications and E-mobility will increase the global...

27. Die Rolle des natürlichen Wasserstoffs im zukünftigen globalen Energiemix

09/10/2025, 12:20

Energy Efficiency

Abstract TEC2ZERO

Weißer Wasserstoff, also natürlich entstandener Wasserstoff, gewinnt zunehmend an Bedeutung als bislang unterschätzte und potenziell disruptive Energiequelle im globalen Energiemix. Er entsteht durch geochemische Prozesse wie Serpentinisierung tief in der Erdkruste und sammelt sich über geologische Zeiträume in unterirdischen Reservoiren an. Diese Form der natürlichen Wasserstofferzeugung...

24. Mechanochemically Self-Immolative Polymers

09/10/2025, 12:40

Critical Raw Materials (including possible toxicity and environmental impact)

Abstract TEC2ZERO

Polymers are important for humanity from daily life usage to advanced science and technology. Considering the degradation rate of polymers in nature and associated difficulties in recycling monomers by depolymerization, the widespread polymer usage poses a significant environmental hazard generating waste in a linear economy. Thereupon, the widespread use of self-immolative polymers,...