Over the course of the day, two workshop-rounds will be given. These rounds will take place around the lunch break, to provide you as a participants with the oppurtunity to do something yourselves in the middle of the day. This will hopefully result in you getting refreshed and reactivated before the second half of lectures starts.
Green team is a pioneer in sustainable mobility as we design, build and race a Formula Student car and one of the world’s most fuel-efficient hydrogen cars. Green Team Twente is a multidisciplinary team of ambitious students from the University of Twente. Sharing knowledge and educating people about hydrogen on all levels to elaborate on our vision to promote the future of sustainable mobility.
The energy buffer (supercapacitor) is charged by the fuel cell at a constant rate and in parallel delivers the power to the electro motor without the need to change the fuel cell setting. Additionally, the energy buffer is also capable of storing and reusing the harvested energy generated with regenerative braking. This makes the system as efficient as possible. Regular consumer batteries do not allow for the fast rate of current that is passing through the system. Therefore, car batteries, LiPo’s, and other types of cells are not suitable for this application. During the workshop, you will think about a solution for this problem.
Convergence Industry B.V. is designing and producing fully automated customised measurement and control systems for liquids and gases worldwide.
Our lab scale pilots are mainly used in membrane characterising applications in universities, research centres & R&D environments. The required competences give us the opportunity to start related projects, like dosing skids or leak detection setups.
As spin-off from the University of Twente, we know how important it is, in addition to supplying high quality products, also to be engaged with sustainability and the future. Young people, including students, are the future! That’s why we need to be careful with the earth and the raw materials we extract from the earth.
During the workshop we would like to give you an insight on how Convergence Industry B.V. is dealing with these kinds of challenges within our company. How can we avoid waste of resources? What can we do to solve the problem of shortage of raw materials? How can we take this into account at the start of the designing process? How can we give used products a second life? Is it always cheaper to give used products a second life, instead of making a new product? How can we find alternatives for the shortage of raw materials in the future?
Come on and join this awesome interactive workshop on our joint Road to the Future!
No-straw-damus B.V. is looking to buy a section of its biodegradable plastic pilot plant. Are you the supplier who is going to sell them the unit?
In the workshop your group will be given the role as a pilot plant manufacturer. In the short period of time you will need to convert the, somewhat incomplete, idea from the client into a quote for a pilot plant. To do so, you will need to design and budget a small pilot plant and prepare a short pitch why your company should get the project.
Engineers of Zeton will take the role as the client, No-straw-damus B.V., as well as possible supplier where you can “buy” the required parts for your foreseen pilot plant. The workshop tries to combine process engineering with a realistic business case, where there is a strong tradeoff between simple/cheap and complex/expensive.
DSM Engineering Materials is a producer of various speciality polyamides and polyesters and their compounds. These products often play key roles in a wide variety of applications for automotive, electronic, packaging and consumer products. The average use time of the applications varies between less than a year for packaging, 8 years for electronics and 15 years for automotive products.
DSM Engineering Materials has a strong focus to reduce the climate change impact by reducing the carbon footprint of the products, both for our own manufacturing plants and for the starting materials we use. Next to that, to reduce the plastic waste problem and to reduce the dependency on fossil input, changing to a circular economy, we also aim at using feedstocks which are recycled materials and biobased (waste). It is our strong belief that recycling used materials are key to a decarbonized future.
In using the terms “waste”, “by-product” and “recycling” we encounter ambiguities. The question we would like to discuss is if the definition of “waste” and “recycling” is as simple as given in the EU’s Waste directive.