Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology
| Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology UMSICHT |
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| Category: | research Institute |
| Carrier: | Fraunhofer Society |
| Legal form of the carrier: | Registered association |
| Seat of the wearer: | Munich |
| Facility location: | Oberhausen |
| Branch offices: | Sulzbach-Rosenberg , Willich |
| Type of research: | Applied research |
| Subjects: | Engineering |
| Areas of expertise: | Environmental technology , materials technology , process technology , energy technology |
| Basic funding: | Federal government (90%), states (10%) |
| Management: | Eckhard Weidner |
| Employee: | 314 (permanent staff) + 16 trainees and 159 students, schoolchildren and interns (as of December 31, 2015) |
| Homepage: | www.umsicht.fraunhofer.de |
The Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology UMSICHT is an institution of the Fraunhofer Society for the Promotion of Applied Research e. V. Fraunhofer UMSICHT develops applied and industry-related process engineering . The institute focuses on the areas of energy, processes and products. The aim of the institute is to promote sustainable management and environmentally friendly technologies.
The main location is in Oberhausen . Fraunhofer UMSICHT operates a branch in Willich (plastics technology center) and a branch in Sulzbach-Rosenberg (energy research).
history
In the 1980s, the city of Oberhausen, industry and institutions wanted a scientific institution. The decline in jobs in the mining and steelmaking sectors had turned the city into an underdeveloped area that needed new industries and jobs. The area of environmental process engineering offered good prospects , as the need for processes for cleaning waste water, exhaust air and contaminated sites was obvious.
At the same time, Paul-Michael Weinspach , holder of the chair for thermal process engineering, was raising third-party funds at the University of Dortmund . With the support of the Oberhausen company Deutsche Babcock AG, Gutehoffnungshütte Actien-Verein für Bergbau und Metallbetrieb MAN GHH and Energieversorgung Oberhausen (evo) Aktiengesellschaft, a concept for a new institute was created and the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and the Ministry of Science of North Rhine-Westphalia developed. Essential tasks should be the development of environmentally compatible, marketable technologies for low-emission and energy-saving production processes as well as the development of technologies to improve the environmental situation.
After the fall of the Wall in 1989 and the reunification in 1990, the FhG took over 19 institutes in East Germany, so that initially there was no more money available for start-ups in the West. Since the state of North Rhine-Westphalia took over the basic funding, UMSICHT was founded as an independent institute on June 13, 1990.
At the end of 1996 UMSICHT financed 75% of its 95 employees through its own income, more than half of which came directly from industry. With this, the criteria of a Fraunhofer Institute were met and UMSICHT was accepted into the Fraunhofer Society on January 1, 1998.
Locations
Oberhausen location
The first employees of Fraunhofer UMSICHT temporarily found shelter in a building belonging to Energieversorgung Oberhausen (evo) Aktiengesellschaft.
As the workforce grew, in June 1991 the move to an old Thyssen building not far away from the current location of the institute took place and the institute management moved its headquarters from Dortmund to Oberhausen.
In March 1993, the new office building at Osterfelder Strasse 3 (Building A) and two halls (Building B) for laboratories and technical centers were inaugurated and move into. Since Oberhausen was classified as a structurally weak region, structural aid from the EU could be used for the construction of the institute building and the new building on the site of an old Thyssen AG vocational training center could be financed. Then a new hall (building C) was built.
On April 30, 2009, the institute was able to expand its complex by around 3000 m² of usable space with the inauguration of Building D. On April 24, 2006, the renovation work on the former Thyssen building on Essener Strasse began. The Thyssen building, which is directly adjacent to the three institute buildings of Fraunhofer UMSICHT, was built in the 1950s. The steelworkers referred to it as the "Q building" because it housed quality control and later the administration of the steel mill. Since 2001 Fraunhofer UMSICHT has been planning to make the “Q building” the fourth institute building and thus its “D building”. At the beginning of 2003, the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft received the grant notification from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for the planned expansion of the institute. The project was funded with € 7 million in construction funds for the renovation of the building and the redesign of the outdoor facilities with federal and state funds and co-financed by the European Union. The client was the Fraunhofer Society for the Promotion of Applied Research eV, Munich. During the renovation work, the building was to be preserved as a contemporary witness of Oberhausen's industrial culture. Glass fronts bring daylight into the 200 m² event room, the 1500 m² office space and the 1000 m² intended for training rooms and an information lounge.
UMSICHT support association
The UMSICHT support association is also based in Oberhausen. Since 2010, it has been awarding the UMSICHT Science Prize in the categories of science and journalism . The award is given to work that promotes the dialogue between science and society , that is, "which makes scientific results from the fields of environmental, process and energy technology - the core topics of Fraunhofer UMSICHT - accessible to society in an outstanding way."
Willich location
Fraunhofer UMSICHT provides services in the field of plastics and recycling technology at the Willich location. Biodegradable plastics , polymers from renewable raw materials, resource-saving materials, nanocomposites and recycled plastics are developed and manufactured in pilot and small series.
Sulzbach-Rosenberg location
Since July 1, 2012, the former ATZ research institute in Sulzbach-Rosenberg has been part of the Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology UMSICHT. The ATZ development center in Sulzbach-Rosenberg was founded in 1990 and funded by the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs. The focus of the new location of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in the Upper Palatinate with approx. 50 employees is energy research with the aim of economically feasible processes and products. Topics include thermal energy generation from biomass and waste, thermal and chemical energy storage, raw materials, materials and surfaces for energy technology and resource management. The annual turnover is around four million euros. In August 2015, the Fraunhofer Institute UMSICHT announced that it would use Neidstein Castle for events on various research topics from November 2015.
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ Report on the integration of the ATZ Institute: ATZ Development Center is part of Fraunhofer UMSICHT ( Memento of the original from December 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Fraunhofer UMSICHT website
- ↑ UMSICHT-FÖRDERVEREIN: UMSICHT Science Prize Strengthening acceptance in society. Retrieved June 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Schloss Neidstein as an event location for Fraunhofer UMSICHT ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Communication from the Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology dated August 31, 2015, accessed on September 3, 2015
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 9.1 ″ N , 6 ° 52 ′ 52.8 ″ E