Carbon Management Consulting: Development of a regional concept for climate neutrality
Prof. Dr. Grit Walther
SoSe 2022
Content and aim of the current topic
The transformation to climate neutrality represents the greatest challenge for Germany in recent decades. The political goals for this have been set and suitable technologies with a sufficient Technology Readiness Level (TRL) are available. What is needed now, however, is concrete implementation. This requires the development of concrete concepts for climate neutrality on a regional level.
Therefore, this project module develops a concept for a concrete region in North Rhine-Westphalia. Necessary for this is the analysis and evaluation of the regional framework conditions, for example in the form of the potential of renewable energies, the current CO2 sources and existing or expandable (pipeline) infrastructures. Based on this, the concept development and capacitive design of concrete mitigation and CCU/CCS measures for the regional CO2 sources will take place. The concepts and scenarios will be developed in dialogue with local decision makers. As a result of this project module, concrete statements on the use of technologies for the use of renewable energies, the mitigation of CO2 emissions with corresponding capacities as well as potential H2/CO2 infrastructures for the region will be developed and strategies for the transformation to climate neutrality for the region and for the optimal design of climate protection measures will be derived.
Participants and requirements
- Master BWL, Master WiWi, Master Wirt.-Ing., open for courses of studies of other faculties (please contact us)
- Max. Number of participants: 18 (BWL, Master WiWi, Master Wi-Ing) from all majors + 10 additional places for students from other faculties
- Language of instruction: German/English
- Prerequisites: -
Organizational procedure and dates
The seminar will take place in the form of a block course on selected dates (see below).
will take place. An introduction to Life Cycle Assessment, Material Flow Analysis, Industrial Processes, CCU/CCS Value Chains, H2/CO2 Infrastructure and Geographic Information Systems will lay the foundation for the case studies to be conducted by the students.
In addition, since regular attendance at the plenary and group sessions is required, please check if you can attend the sessions listed below before registering. Supervision will be provided by Prof. Dr. Grit Walther and members of the chair.
Due to the Corona pandemic, this module is planned as an online module.
Project modules are compulsory!
Before registering, please check whether you can attend the dates indicated below. Please also note the absence regulations specific to this module.
Binding schedule (examination performances must be marked as such and must correspond to the information in the module catalog) [requested by the student council].
The date of the first examination performance should be explicitly marked as such. This date will be transferred to RWTHonline as binding. The 14-day withdrawal period is calculated from the date of the first examination. The date should be at the earliest 14 days after the kick-off!
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Dates |
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Kick-Off Meeting: Monday, 11.4.2022 9.00 - 10.30 |
General introduction, objectives and requirements of the seminar, questions from the students, presentation of the case studies. |
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Tutorial week: 3.5.-5.5. 9 am - 12 pm online lectures (+ online tutorials as videos if needed). |
Lecture & Tutorials (online, videos)
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Interim presentation* Monday, 5/30 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. |
Colloquium |
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Flexible during the semester |
Supervision of the small groups |
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Presentation of the results * Monday, 27.06.2022, 9 - 13 |
Colloquium* |
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Deadline for term paper* Friday, 11.07.2022 |
Term paper submission* |
* Partial examination performance
Examination services
At the end of the seminar, students submit a term paper documenting the project results (10 - 15 pages per group member) and present the results at the final colloquium in the form of a presentation (30 minutes presentation per group + 15 minutes discussion). Furthermore, the interim presentation counts towards the examination performance. The term papers are written in interdisciplinary teams (usually five persons). The final grade consists of the term paper (65%) and the colloquium (interim and final presentation) (35%).
Absence regulation (module-specific information)
Attendance is compulsory. The tolerated absence time is a maximum of 20% of the total attendance time and also includes additional (not included in point 3), individually agreed group appointments. Group appointments are to be attended jointly by all group participants and usually take place as attendance appointments. Please note that excused absences are included. Substitutes are not provided, since the achievement of the learning objective depends in particular on the interaction with the lecturers and fellow students.
Event registration
Up-to-date information on the registration process, including deadlines, is expected to be available on the website beginning in early March:
http://www.wiwi.rwth-aachen.de/projektmodule
Registration for the exam
With the system-side allocation (fixed place) to the course of the project module, an automatic examination registration is carried out by the WiWi examination management. There is no need for students to register separately for examinations in project modules (exception: late place). Please refer to the website (www.wiwi.rwth-aachen.de/projektmodule) for the examination registration process in case of a subsequent place. Withdrawal is possible on the system side after successful registration.
Cancellation / Resignation / Absence / Illness
Overarching regulations for all events can be found on the WiWi faculty website at http://www.wiwi.rwth-aachen.de/projektmodule
Topics and introductory literature
Integrated techno-economic and environmental assessment industrial processes (e.g. cement production) and the value chains of decabonization technologies (e.g. H2 and CCU/CCS).
Contact for queries
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Module contents
ali.abdelshafy@om.rwth-aachen.de
Lehrstuhl für Operations Management |
Event registration: Dr. Irina Frei Templergraben 64, Raum 621 zuteilung@wiwi.rwth-aachen.de
Exam registration Dr. Sandra Silvertant Prüfungskoordinatorin Templergraben 64, Raum 622 pruefungen@wiwi.rwth-aachen.de
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