Interdisziplinäre Lehre: Meeting Global Challenges
Transformation towards climate-neutral industries
Registration
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Academic Responsibility
Contact Person
Alina Meyer, B.A.
Schedulue
Start
20.10.2022
Time
Thursday, 6:30-8:00 p.m.
Place
Digital (Zoom)
Contents
Climate change is one of the central challenges of the coming years and decades. The reduction of greenhouse gas emissions requires a profound change in our economic systems, this is especially true for the energy-intensive raw material industries, such as the steel, cement, chemical, aluminium and paper production.
In this Leonardo Lecture, we will analyse the challenges and possible solutions for a sustainable, climate-neutral and competitive raw materials industry in North Rhine-Westphalia and Germany by 2045. The results from the NRW strategy project SCI4climate.NRW are presented by experts from the RWTH Aachen University, Fraunhofer UMSICHT, Wuppertal Institute and the Cologne Institute for Economic Research, as well as other partners, such as the Verein Deutscher Zementwerke e.V. and the VDEh-Betriebsforschungsinstitut GmbH.
Learning Outcomes
At the end of the course, students will be able to:
- classify the importance of energy-intensive industry for the transition to a climate-neutral society, including the identification and evaluation of the associated opportunities and challenges and innovative technologies for greenhouse gas reduction in the energy-intensive industry,
- derive technology and innovation roadmaps,
- assess infrastructure needs, e.g. with regard to pipelines for hydrogen and CO2 as well as storage technologies, and
- explain and critically reflect on the political and legal framework conditions for a transformation to a climate-neutral industry.
Program
Overview
20.10.2022
Transformation of the Basic Industries – Importance for Climate Protection and Possible Pathways to Climate Neutrality for Steel, Chemistry and Cement
Dr. Sascha Samadi, Wuppertal Institute
TechnologIES & INFRASTRUCTURE
27.10.2022
Low-CO2 steel production through the use of hydrogen technologies
Theresa Overbeck, VDEh-Betriebsforschungsinstitut GmbH
Ali Abdelshafy, Chair of Operations Management, RWTH Aachen
03.11.2022
Importance of infrastructure for industrial transformation
Dr. Christoph Glasner, Fraunhofer UMSICHT und
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Seifert, Fraunhofer UMSICHT
10.11.2022
CCU – role of science using the example of the Carbon2Chem® project
Dr. Torsten Müller, Fraunhofer UMSICHT
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Seifert, Fraunhofer UMSICHT
Modeling
24.11.2022
Modelling approaches for the transformation to a climate neutral industry
Prof. Dr. Grit Walther, Chair of Operations Management, RWTH Aachen
Policy Instruments & Strategies
17.11.2022
Towards a policy framework for industrial transformation
Katharina Knoop, Wuppertal Institute
01.12.2022
Resource efficiency as a core strategy for a climate-neutral industrial transformation
Prof. Dr. Stefan Lechtenböhmer, Wuppertal Institute
Business models & tools for implementation
08.12.2022
On the way to climate neutrality: circular business models
Dr. Sarah Fluchs, Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln e.V.
15.12.2022
Digital Product Passport in the Raw Materials Industries
Dr. Holger Berg, Wuppertal Institute
Procedure/Working method
Depending on the course of studies, module and examination, credit points can be achieved through participation.
Certificate
Certificate of Participation (0 CP, not graded)
Protocol with critical analysis (2 CP, not graded)
Term Paper (4 CP)
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