ReCO2NWert

The aim of the project is to use climate-damaging CO₂ as a valuable material.

Industrial processes release tons of carbon dioxide, which is released into the atmosphere as a greenhouse gas that is harmful to the climate. The aim of the ReCon₂Wert project is to capture it instead and put it to good use. As part of this project, which is coordinated by the Cluster for Industrial Biotechnology, researchers led by Dr. Carolin Mügge from the Department of Biotechnology at Ruhr University Bochum are working on using bacteria to extract ingredients for cosmetic products or starting materials for plastics from CO₂ containing waste gases from a waste incineration plant.

Funding

The RWTH Aachen University, the Ruhr University Bochum, the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology and the Fraunhofer UMSICHT are involved in the project together with the companies MVA Weisweiler, Dr. Babor, Covestro Germany and the nova-Institut. The project is coordinated by the Cluster Industrial Biotechnology (CLIB). The federal government is funding the project with a total of eight million euros.

ReCon₂Wert is a future-oriented project for structural change in the Rhenish mining area. The federal government and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia are supporting the sustainable transformation of the Rhenish mining area with more than 14.8 billion euros.

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