AUFBRUCH - APT - TU Dortmund

Location & approach

By Car

The campus of the Technical University of Dortmund is located near the freeway junction Dortmund West, where the Sauerland line A45 crosses the Ruhr expressway B1/A40. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to the South Campus, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 leads to the North Campus. The university is signposted at both exits.

By bus and train

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S-Bahn line S1 runs every 15 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen and Duisburg. In addition, the university can be reached by bus lines 445, 447 and 462. Timetable information can be found on the homepage of the Rhine-Ruhr Transport Association, and DSW21 also offer an interactive route network map.

The H-Bahn

One of the landmarks of the TU Dortmund is the H-Bahn. Line 1 runs every 10 minutes between Dortmund Eichlinghofen and the Technology Center via Campus South and Dortmund University S, while Line 2 commutes every 5 minutes between Campus North and Campus South. It covers this distance in two minutes.

By Airplane

From Dortmund Airport, the AirportExpress takes just over 20 minutes to Dortmund's main train station, and from there, the S-Bahn takes you to the university. A wider range of international flight connections is offered by Düsseldorf Airport, about 60 kilometers away, which can be reached directly by S-Bahn from the university's train station.

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Location & approach

By Car

The campus of the Technical University of Dortmund is located near the freeway junction Dortmund West, where the Sauerland line A45 crosses the Ruhr expressway B1/A40. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to the South Campus, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 leads to the North Campus. The university is signposted at both exits.

By bus and train

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S-Bahn line S1 runs every 15 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen and Duisburg. In addition, the university can be reached by bus lines 445, 447 and 462. Timetable information can be found on the homepage of the Rhine-Ruhr Transport Association, and DSW21 also offer an interactive route network map.

The H-Bahn

One of the landmarks of the TU Dortmund is the H-Bahn. Line 1 runs every 10 minutes between Dortmund Eichlinghofen and the Technology Center via Campus South and Dortmund University S, while Line 2 commutes every 5 minutes between Campus North and Campus South. It covers this distance in two minutes.

By Airplane

From Dortmund Airport, the AirportExpress takes just over 20 minutes to Dortmund's main train station, and from there, the S-Bahn takes you to the university. A wider range of international flight connections is offered by Düsseldorf Airport, about 60 kilometers away, which can be reached directly by S-Bahn from the university's train station.

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Project

AUFBRUCH - Innovation area 1: Industrial defossilization through bio-based process chains exemplified by the chemo- and biocatalytic conversion of carbohydrate-rich residual material streams into ethylene and propylene glycol

Subject area	Melt Crystallization
Project duration	04/2024-03/2028
Funding acengy	Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Project partners	Prof. Dr. Jürgen Howaldt (TU Dortmund), Prof. Dr. Jan Marienhagen (FZ Jülich), Prof. Dr. Regina Palkovits (RWTH Aachen), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christoph Held (TU Dortmund), Dr. Grit Walther (RWTH Aachen), CLIB

Project description

Innovation Area 1 addresses industrial defossilisation. Industrial defossilisation requires the development of new competitive processes that are both sustainable and represent a real economic alternative. As an example, in innovation area 1, ethylene and propylene glycol are to be produced from carbohydrate-rich residual material streams from the agricultural, food, and paper industries in the Rhineland mining area. These chemical building blocks are currently obtained from fossil resources and used for a wide range of applications, for example as monomers for polymer production. A comparison is made between biocatalysts and solid chemocatalysts for the conversion of complex waste streams. Novel energy-efficient separation processes and alternative reactor concepts are being tested for the efficient scaling of the technologies. Based on the research results, the newly developed methods and technologies will be analyzed and evaluated with regard to economic efficiency, environmental impact, further development and expected up-scaling.

Researchers