Poster presentation on the current status of the CircEcon project at the PEMT meeting

At the DECHEMA Annual Meeting of Process Engineering and Materials Technology (PEMT) in Frankfurt am Main, Carolin Deuter presented current work from the joint research project CircEcon. With the poster contribution "Towards Energy-Efficient Carbon Fiber Composite Recycling: Supercritical Water Solvolysis Across the Scales" she presented central developments of the project and the ongoing research activities.

In her contribution, Carolin showed how a sustainable process for the recovery of carbon fibers from lightweight components is being systematically developed at TU Dresden from laboratory to pilot to industrial scale.
Reaction kinetics and optimum process parameters are currently being investigated in the laboratory. These investigations served as the basis for the design and development of a more energy-efficient, semi-continuous process, which will be implemented in a pilot plant at the research campus in Lusatia in 2026.
Based on the knowledge gained, a simulation-supported model is also being developed that will enable the establishment of an energy and ecologically optimized industrial CFRP recycling process - an important step towards a closed material cycle.

In the interdisciplinary research project "CircEcon", researchers from TU Dresden, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, TU Chemnitz and Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences are combining their expertise in the fields of recycling technologies and closed-loop recycling. The aim is to establish a demonstration factory in Lusatia that is unique in Europe, opening up new economic prospects for the region and actively shaping the transformation towards a resource-conserving industry.