News
1 April 2026
Together with project partner inter3, the chair for Circular Economy visited the biogas plant operated by e.dis therm in Sembten at the beginning of April. e.dis therm is supporting the Waste2Wealth project (https://www.b-tu.de/waste2wealth) by providing video footage, which is being used as teaching material to facilitate knowledge transfer between Germany and Georgia. The chair would like to thank e.dis therm for granting access to the biogas plant and for providing the photos shown here. Special thanks go to Ms Nadine Hartnick for her coordination and to Mr Frank Häsler for his role as video presenter. We would also like to thank the film team at the inter3 Institute. The video material produced is currently being compiled by our partner inter3 into a virtual learning course, which is also set to be used in teaching at the BTU in future with the help of the “Lernhaus” learning software.
04 February 2026
In July 2025, the new project "Bio-hydrometallurgical recovery of precious and valuable metals as secondary materials and associated reduction of CO2" was approved by the respective fundig agency. The chairs of Process and Plant Engineering and Circular Economy are working together at BTU on a demonstration plant that investigates metal recycling in combination with CO2 fixation by litotrophic microorganisms. The project was announced at the beginning of 2026 via a press release from BTU: https: //www.b-tu.de/news/artikel/30584-bio-bergbau-aus-der-lausitz-btu-entwickelt-recyclingverfahren-mit-bakterien-und-co2
Shortly afterwards, press releases were also issued by RBB and Lausitzer Rundschau: