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07. August 2019 – Lukas Eichinger

Schools at university – Day 4

On thursday, the first of august, the program of the Schools of University continued with a related topic like the day before. The students learned everything about the gasification of carbon based resources like plastic waste and the synthesis of fuel from this gas. Needless to say that they visited the industrial-scale plants for these production steps at the institute of energy process engineering afterwards.

In the afternoon there were some presentations about the different fields of study related to the different experimental topics of the week. In this way the pupils had the chance to orient themselves for their future study opportunities. The day ended with a visit to the Terra Mineralia, where the soul can calm down by watching those beautiful and stunning minerals.

  • Die Schülerinnen und Schüler bei der Besichtigung der technischen Anlagen
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01. August 2019 – Lukas Eichinger

Schools at university – Day 3

On wednesday the pupils discussed a lot about the future of mobility. The experiments they did were about the production of biodiesel and the charactization of the current fossil fuels. But of course alternative fuels in general were scrutinized. Now, the students got a view of chemical process engineers on this topic as well as on the complexity of the processes producing the mobility dicisive fuels, and not only the eco-political aspects which are widely discussed in the media.

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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.

16. July 2019 – Lukas Eichinger

Exploitation of energy resources

An apprenticeship as a mechatronic or electronics technician is a future-oriented career field. Installing a smart power grid, creating intelligent connections of existing energy systems or maintaining Hightech solutions for the combined generation of electricity and chemicals – nothing will work without the Know-how of a electrician.

The current trainees at the vocational training school “Julius Weisbach” in Freiberg had the chance to expand their knowledge regarding not only the current but also the possible future usage of energy resources with a lecture at the IEC on July 5, 2019. The main topics were about the present electricity supply situation and future challenges of the whole power supply management complemented by the question, which ways of energetic and material energetic resource usage will be possible in the near future. A topic of big importance for the would-be electricians regarding the fact, that this will mainly influence their future job perspectives.

©IEC lectures about new concepts how to use energy resources in the future