UrbanHeatCycle: Bio-Heating Oil from Sewage Sludge and Biowaste – AHP Delivers the TEA/LCA
Within the framework of the collaborative R&D project “UrbanHeatCycle,” funded by the Federal Ministry for Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) and led by the Technical University of Munich, Werner Siemens Chair of Synthetic Biotechnology, a complex biorefinery process is being developed to produce climate-friendly bio-heating oil for building heating from urban waste streams (sewage sludge and biowaste). This involves combining various fermentation processes, enzymatic and thermocatalytic conversion processes in an appropriate manner.
In addition to other institutes of the Technical University of Munich, the University of Leipzig, the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology, and GST Global Sustainable Transformation GmbH, in which AHP holds a stake, are also participating in the research project.
In this context, AHP is developing an integrated techno-economic overall model for the industrial scale-up of the production process (TEA) and for determining the carbon footprint of the products (LCA) on behalf of the Technical University of Munich.
Project website of the Technical University of Munich: https://www.ch.nat.tum.de/wssb/forschung/projekte/uhc/
AHP Correspondence address:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe Arnold
Knesebeckstraße 77, 10623 Berlin