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The 12th "Statuskonferenz Bioenergie" took place in Leipzig on 20 and 21 November 2025. Sabine Reiß, Constantin Heim, and Hannah Cortnum each gave a presentation. Sabine Reiß presented the BioProcessHeat project, focusing on the experimental results of an Oxyfuel gasification of biogenic residues to...

The field trip on the topic of renewable energies took place from 5 to 7 November 2025. The first stop was the biomass cogeneration plant in Bad Mergentheim, which supplies the city's district heating network. In the afternoon, the tour continued to Mannheim, where participants visited the wastewate...

On 3 November 2025, the Chair of Energy Process Engineering at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg hosted the closing workshop “Optimization of Sewage Sludge Combustion in Stationary Fluidized Beds”. The workshop focused on operational aspects, emission reduction — particularly N₂O meas...

From 9 to 11 September 2025, the 8th International Seminar on ORC Power Systems took place in Lappeenranta, Finland. The conference focused on the exchange of information on thermodynamic cycle processes with organic working fluids. In addition to organic Rankine cycles, reversible ORC heat pump sys...

In an article published today by Nordbayern.de, Professor Karl addresses myths about renewable energies and the energy transition and debunks them. You can read the entire article here.

The 57th Kraftwerkstechnische Kolloquium (Power Plant Technology Colloquium) took place in Dresden from 7 to 8 October 2025. Jakob Müller and Nora Elhaus each gave a presentation at the student conference. Jakob Müller discussed the production of CO2-neutral LNG. Nora Elhaus presented the role of en...

On Thursday, October 16, 2025, starting at 6 p.m., Prof. Karl will take part in a public discussion event organized by the Green Party of Nuremberg in the Katharinensaal of the City Library (Am Katharinenkloster 6, Nuremberg). The central focus will be the question of how the energy transition, and ...

For the tenth time, the Abby-Net Summer School took place from August 2 to 9, 2025 – this time in the Kananaskis Valley, Alberta, Canada. Among the roughly 30 participants were also five students from the Chair of Energy Process Engineering. In addition to numerous lectures and workshops, two excit...

On 29 October 2025 and 14 November 2025, the workshop "Explaining Science with Images" of the BayWISS-Kolleg "Energie" will take place. This interactive workshop teaches the basics of graphic design and visual communication, specifically for scientists. The workshop aims to improve the ability to an...