The Chair offers both theoretical and analytical or experimental Bachelor’s and Master’s theses for students of Industrial Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Environmental Ethics, and Geography. We also supervise external theses conducted at non-university research institutions or companies, provided the topic aligns with our research areas. For a thesis at our Chair, prior attendance of relevant courses is recommended: Technical Chemistry and Environmental Process Engineering at the Bachelor’s level, and Circular Economy and Waste Management, Recycling of Composite Materials, and Raw Material and Waste Mineralogy at the Master’s level. Participation in the seminar for Bachelor’s and Master’s students is mandatory, regardless of the specific study program or examination regulations. A template for theses can be found in your personal network folder, which is created for you at the beginning of your project and where all work and related data must be stored. The publication of theses on the 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Augsburg’s website via? https://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/publish is explicitly encouraged.

Bachelor theses:

• Analysis of the Drinking Water Supply on the Island of Samos (Greece)

• Comparison of Methods for Detecting and Quantifying the Recycled Content in Textiles

• Optimization of a Flotation Unit in a PFAS Soil-Washing Plant

Master theses:

• Development of an Excel tool for ecological and economic assessment and optimization of disposal and recycling routes for foundry dusts

• Investigation of fluctuations in the quality of refractory recyclates

• Expansion of an electrolysis test bench with gas separation and in-situ quantification of oxygen (O?) and hydrogen (H?) in alkaline water electrolysis

• Economic hydrogen compression & storage

• Extraction and provenance determination of mica minerals in automotive components using geochemical signatures and statistical methods

• Regional secondary raw material-based binder components for precast concrete elements

• Investigation of fluctuations in the quality of refractory recyclates

• Removal of Pb from MSWI bottom ash by froth flotation

• Recovery of valuable materials from concentrates of wastewater treatment

1. Fill in the first paragraph (I.) of the corresponding registration form
2. Forward the form to the examiner
3. Examiner fills in the second section (II.) and forwards the form to the chair of the examination board
4. Chairman of the examination board signs and sends the form to the examination office

Bachelor theses:

Master theses:

• Economic and ecological assessment of a novel manufacturing process for composite pipeline systems (AntiStatic)

• Evaluation of Hydrogen IPCEI projects

• Decarbonization in maritime shipping – analysis of CO? emissions of different engine types and feasibility study on the integration of alternative fuels

• Modeling the strategic design process of a hydrogen refueling infrastructure for fuel cell trucks within an as-a-service business model

• Development of a simulation-based modular library for the planning and operation of battery cell factories

• Increasing sustainability using a reference engine in a repair workshop as a case study

• Integration and development of a scalable thermochemical energy storage system based on CaO/Ca(OH)? for application in district heating networks

• Waste-law analysis of country-specific implementation of the EU Single-Use Plastics Directive

• Removal of silanes used as hydrophobizing agents from gypsum waste to enable gypsum recycling

• Mineralogy and leachability of inorganic environmental pollutants from mineral fractions of bottom ash from waste incineration plants

• Comparative analysis of life cycle assessments of CO? capture, storage, and utilization

• Removal of silanes used as hydrophobizing agents from gypsum waste to enable gypsum recycling

• Investigation and validation of a suitable process for the characterization of bottom ash using SEM/EDX

• Quantification of waste prevention

• Multi-derivative container for the conversion and transport of hydrogen and its derivatives

• Setup and optimization of alkaline water electrolysis using modified nickel electrodes

• Concept for a hydrogen laboratory with focus on k-AxFlux & material testing

• Carbon Capture and Storage applications in power plant facilities

• Recycling of silicon from PV modules for use in SiC ceramics

• Recycling of foundry dusts into SiC green bodies

• Development of accelerated stress tests for the characterization of the long-term stability of nickel-based electrodes

• Research and test bench design for the pre-validation of suitable stack and balance-of-plant components in PEM electrolysis systems with regard to PFAS leaching and other contaminants

• Exploration of stannite and stannite-related A?BCX? compounds with regard to catalytic performance in hydrolysis

• Inventory and substitution of PFAS in industrial robots using KUKA as a case study

• Optimization of silicon carbide green bodies for the foundry process

• Synthesis and determination of solubility products of fluorine-containing chromium spinels

• Raw material potential of industrial wastewater with respect to critical metals

• Holistic assessment of a TPE recycling system