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31. July 2019 – Lukas Eichinger

Schools at university – Day 2

On July 30 the pupils started in the second day of the Tech-Week with a Broad Agenda. During the morning, the Young students made several Experiments on extraction and how to seperate different substances, but also on Agglomeration and bringing substances together to get pills for medical use for example. This was a good example of how divers the applications of process engineering are.

In the afternoon the Experiments continued on Adsorption and using membranes. For the fun in the evening and to explore even the furthest Corners, the employees of the ITUN organised a round of Geocaching for the students.

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30. July 2019 – Lukas Eichinger

Schools at university – Day 1

The schools at university program is an offer of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg, where pupils can participate to gain an insight into the university and the different fields of study.

Yesterday, on July 29, the Tech-Week started. Here, pupils can discover different fields of technical studies, especially the variations of process engineering. So our first topic was the filtration, not only of apple juice like they did in a little experiment, but also the filtration of metallic melts. After viewing our plants for these type of filtrations, we had a little barbecue behind the technical center and let the evening die away for today.

17. July 2019 – Lukas Eichinger

What’s gonna be our future fuel?

Besides the well established electric fuel option for individual and public transport in the future, a carbon based solution should not be excluded from the agenda. Always following the slogan “CO2 free economy? Of course. Carbon free economy? Not necessary”. Some new ideas of closing the carbon cycle were developed lately, e.g. using plastic waste as a fuel resource or reducing the municipal waste appearence by material usage of the contained carbonaceous chemical compounds.
Our colleague M.Sc. R. Voss explained these new technologies to interested students from different schools in saxony and showed them the huge opportunities we have nowadays regarding the current scientific research topics. The students were amazed by the findings and were very interested in the challenges that we still have to face. Wide spread curiosity within the new generation is the best chance for our future!

©IEC lecture about future fuels

02. July 2019 – Lukas Eichinger

Long Night at the Reiche Zeche

On Saturday, june 22, the 7th long night of science and economy took place in Freiberg. A lot of different local companies and especially the University prepared an interesting and diversified program for kids and adults.

One of the highlight spots of this event was the area at the Reiche Zeche. With nearly as many booths and experiments as located on the Campus being equally attractive for visitors, we have to point out: we had the bigger explosions thanks to the chemistry students and their neat Experiments that climaxed in an hourly lab show.

Besides that, we also had small but not less fascinating experiments like producing organic fuel or making ice from liquid nitrogen as well as Information Points about making and tasting craft beer and lots of fun while testing Segways, hoverboards and monowheels. Standing side by side with the IEC, the other institutes that are located on the area of the Reiche Zeche showed their scientific spectra with exciting Minerals or the possibility of making your own colored chalk, just to point out some of the numerous actions.

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01. July 2019 – Lukas Eichinger

Field trip Most

On June 20 2019 the IEC offered an field trip, organized by the Research Institute for Lignite (Vúhu), to Most (CZ) with the topic “recultivation of the coal mining area next to most”. German and czech students had the chance to experience the possibilities of recultivation first hand.

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The field trip startet at the lake near Most, which is the biggest hydrorecultivated area in Czech Republik. It’s going to be a local recreation area. The amount of water in the lake gets adjusted with pipes, pumps and the water from a river 40km away. Pretty impressive performance!

But the human help is not even crucial: In some areas some plants and trees were strong enough  to grow and expand on their own. Even though the soil is pretty arid there. But this field trip was not only sight seeing! At the spoil heap Střimice the methods of taking soil samples and using that and other aspects for the developement of the best fitting recultivation programme were worked out by the whole group.

The new students’ expertise was used at the last stop: the opencast mine Vršany. This area will be completely recultivated within the next 40 years. Although the schedule for the recultivation is already made, the students discussed about the different opportunities for this territory.

Overall it was a very enlightening field trip for most of the students, who may haven’t seen all these different levels of recultivation yet!