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Volume 3, Issue 2 (Suppl)
Trends in Green chem
ISSN: 2471-9889
Environmental & Green Chemistry 2017
July 24-26, 2017
Page 31
5
th
International Conference on
6
th
International Conference on
July 24-26, 2017 Rome, Italy
Environmental Chemistry and Engineering
Green Chemistry and Technology
&
Carbon-enhanced manufacturing and digitalization supporting cycle economy
Dominik Rohrmus
Siemens AG, Germany
T
he global challenge climate change calls for answers beyond the pure optimization of resources and energy consumption in
manufacturing - a major CO
2
causer. CO
2
as a supply for new synthetic raw materials and products as well as markets is a new
long-term approach to establish a green cycle economy. We define green cycles as CO
2
sinks. The Siemens green cycle vision for green
production and green raw materials as displayed in Figure 1 opens new manufacturing models and new product markets to provide
an answer for the world’s hunger for materials. These materials have a promising future for non-food related components such as
electronic parts. Green cycle factories apply the concept of green cycles to the discrete manufacturing industries. The prerequisites
are renewable energy and chemistry production technologies, which are synthesizing fuels and materials for manufacturing from
CO
2
sources. The world has to focus on renewable supplies, which fulfill the demands of future manufacturing technologies in
terms of additive manufacturing processes that are then mainly using carbon materials. Our new findings can help to contribute
to a greener future as carbon-based materials come from renewable, biodegradable resources. The transformation process requires
new competitive manufacturing systems in a decentralized and digitalized manner. An additive manufacturing process based on this
carbon feedstock is one promising application field with the advantage to transfer the carbon load into discrete products. Hence, low
carbon in the atmosphere can be realized by green cycles and advanced carbon-based materials and manufacturing.
Biography
Dominik Rohrmus works at Siemens Corporate Technology in Munich, Germany in different functions in the area of manufacturing development and production
equipment realization since 2005. In 2009, he founded the company program, Sustainable Production Engineering and rolled several demonstrator projects
company-wide out. In particular energy efficient production planning and technology on the shop-floor set the focus of that program. Also cycle economy and cycle
business development in cooperation with Siemens business units and external partners is part of the program and yield already several pilot projects. Since 2013,
he is the Head of the research group, Manufacturing Systems Engineering at Siemens Corporate Technology. The research group is responsible for shop-floor
equipment standardization and development of the future for the Siemens factories worldwide.
dominik.rohrmus@siemens.comDominik Rohrmus, Trends in Green chem, 3:2
DOI: 10.21767/2471-9889-C1-002