Renewable Energy

Production of regenerative energy, transport or storage of renewable energy: no other topic is currently so newsworthy and heavily discussed as the topic "renewable energies". The Department of Environmental Engineering is active in specific areas dealing with the technical implementation of the sustainable energy transition.

By means of hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) waste biomass materials can be converted into bio-coal (also called biochar). These biochars can either be employed for energy generation or in terms of carbon sequestration as soil amendment.

Biogas upgrading is one of the key issues for biogas storage in the natural gas grid. Current research efforts concentrate on efficient drying processes of biogas using radio waves.

Contact

Head:
Dr. Katrin Mackenzie
Department of Technical Biogeochemistry
Katrin Mackenzie

Office:
Mrs. Julia Dallos
Julia Dallos

Phone: +49 341 6025 4743 (via Zoom)

Permoserstraße 15 | 04318 Leipzig | Germany

Dr. Katrin Mackenzie

The chemist is head of the Department Technical Biogeochemistry at the UFZ site in Leipzig. Her research focuses on the development of new processes and materials for the removal of pollutants from water, with an emphasis on in situ groundwater purification. She is particularly interested in the combination of sorptive enrichment and chemical pollutant degradation. Halogenated pollutants ranging from chlorinated solvents to poly- and perfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) are the focus of interest, as is the implementation of environmental technology processes for their removal from water.

Katrin Mackenzie is since 2017 elected member of the scientific-technical staff in the supervisory board of the UFZ. She is a technical reviewer for a wide variety of funding agencies and journals and teaches "Technical Environmental Chemistry" at the University of Leipzig.