ACHEMA Pulse 2021

•••24••• Messewelten ACHEMA Innovation Challenge These are the finalists F or a long time now, data has been accumulating in large quantities in the process industry – but how can it be used? The ACHEMA Innovation Chal- lenge called on innovative teams to develop solutions for the use of digital methods and artificial intel- ligence (AI) in the process indus- try. Eight teams have impressed with their concepts and will pre- sent them as part of the ACHEMA Pulses on June 15 from 3 to 5 pm. ACHEMA Pulse participants will be able to vote for the finalists in a live poll. To implement AI solutions in the process industry as part of the KEEN platform, ABB AG chal- lenged participants to develop an intelligent pipeline that pre-pro- cesses, cleans and labels collected data sets – and does so automati- cally. The two teams “D.A.T.A. Solutions” (Jesse Rejek, Philipus Putra, Yustinus Adrian, Ridzki Nu- groho, Lingga Putra) and “Otto Normal” (Maximilian Kleine, Hen- rik Rosenberg) qualified for the finals. The second challenge comes from TU Dortmund University: artifi- cial intelligence is to be used in image recognition to determine the operating conditions in an extraction column with liquid-liq- uid flow. Here, the teams “KEEN Seekers” (Rafael De Cerqueira, Omar Bayomie) and “Data Bar- ber” (Iwan Kornijez, Tim Sander- mann, Samuel Kieling) take the final places. Predictive maintenance in wa- ter management is the topic of the MAIN hack, organized jointly with HTAI. EnviroChemie’s chal- lenge was to monitor the dosing of chemicals for optimal sew- age sludge treatment. The two teams “MT DeepWater” (Karo- lina Weber, Marcus Linden, Oli- ver Balster, Philipp Wittenhorst, Hermann Wilde, Aike Sass, Rahul Soni) and “Okeanos” (Juliane Neumann, Henning Oppel, Ben- jamin Mewes, Önder Türksoy, Jonas Bechmann) convinced with their concepts and are in the final. The monitoring of plant compo- nents is the subject of the second challenge, which was set by Evon- ik. The teams “Banius - Intelligent Process Optimization” (Eske Hil- brands, Alexander Kekkenhoff, Robin Schröder, Hakan Bayer) and “PolyLyzer” (Michael Kocher, Thomas Theisen, Matthias Albers) took the final places in this task. The ACHEMA Innovation Chal- lenge was announced for the first time in 2020. A total of 183 inno- vation-minded thinkers took part. Some registered as teams from the outset, while others came to- gether during the course of the competition via the challenge’s communication platform. In workshops they received advice on their solutions. In addition to prize money of up to 1,500 euros, the winners also have the oppor- tunity to spend a day at one of the participating companies. Participants will be able to vote for the finalists in a live poll Foto: DECHEMA Ausstellungs-GmbH BIOBASED PRODUCTS AND FUELS| BIOREFINERIES Our research is a key to a climate-neutral society by 2050 at the latest, when closed carbon cycles in the bioeconomy will have replaced the fossil economy. DBFZ Deutsches Biomasseforschungszentrum gemeinnützige GmbH Torgauer Straße 116, 04347 Leipzig, www.dbfz.de/en/research/research-focus-areas/biobased-products-and-fuels 1 2 Hydrothermal processes Separation technologies and process design 3 4 Gasification and synthesis gas processes Motor fuels and engines ©Kooperationsprojekt der Hochschule Merseburg / A. Stephan, K. Kretschmer, M. Hollerbach, P. Schwanbeck adapted by DBFZ 06/2021 Our expertise for collaborative projects • Technical lab based process R&D • Process simulation and overall plant design • Techno-economic assessment and life cycle assessment • Feasibility assessments incl. market analyses • Applied R&D at industrial quality standards (ISO 9001) 4 3 2 1