Chair for Waste Management and Circular Economy
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Christina Dornack
Director
Deputy Ombudsperson of the TU Dresden in cases of suspected scientific misconduct
RESEARCH AREAS
- CO2 balancing, climate protection and circular economy
- Material flow analyses of waste streams - Analysis and recycling potential of waste compositions
- Sewage sludge utilization (thermal, biological, phosphorus recycling)
- Process optimization in the field of thermal waste treatment
- Fluidized bed technology for organic residues
- Ecological and economical considerations of existing as well as future recycling measures
- Strategies for waste prevention and preparation for reuse
- Biogas production from biogenic waste and renewable raw materials
- Process optimization of biogas production from a process engineering and microbial point of view
- Utilization of highly contaminated biogenic residues (monofermentation, co-fermentation)
- Resource-efficient and low-emission settlement development - Impact of demographic change on waste management
- Sorting optimization of plastics using near-infrared spectroscopy
- Efficiency increase in waste-fired plants, investigation of pollutant development in the combustion chamber
- Fuel analysis for substitute and secondary fuels, fuel characterization
- Informal sector activities in waste management - formal and informal material flows of WEEE
- Development and implementation of waste management bachelor and master courses as well as advanced training courses on integrated waste management in industrialized, emerging and developing countries
- Capacity building in developing and emerging countries
- Plastics recycling
- Recycling of predominantly mineral waste materials
- Recovery and recycling of CFRP and GFRP-based materials
- Substitution strategies for primary resources
- Recycling-friendly product design
- Policy and economic consulting
- Laboratory processing and analysis of wastes
- Hazard assessment of contaminated sites (mineral oils, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, chlorinated solvents, monoaromatics and MTBE)
former Research Group INOWAS:
Fluidized bed plant for thermal waste treatment experiments:
VERENA (VERsuchsanlage zur ENergetischen Nutzung von Abfällen) -
furthermore:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Andreas Igelbüscher
Honorary Professor of Thermal Recycling Methods
• Thermal processes of waste management including air purification measures after thermal and mechanical-biological waste treatment
• Influence of dry and semi-dry flue gas cleaning processes in boilers and reactors on the usability of the reaction products