We as DBI-Virtuhcon GmbH have solutions for you – also and especially for difficult questions. We advise you independently of providers, prepare scientific, technological, and economic reports for you. Likewise, we analyze, model, and balance your process or your plant, perform trouble-shooting, and carry out weak point analyses.
DBI-Virtuhcon provides you with sophisticated experiments from the laboratory to the technically relevant scale and develops new, patent-protected process solutions as well as components and technologies for you.
The main services of DBI-Virtuhcon GmbH include:
- Determination and comprehensive evaluation of process chains for the material or energetic utilization of carbon-containing energy raw materials (in particular thermochemical energy carrier conversion at medium and high temperatures)
- Technology assessment for individual processes and overall process chains, e.g., pyrolysis, gasification, combustion, drying, briquetting, etc.
- Consulting companies in various project phases for the planning and construction of plants for material-energetic energy carrier conversion, e.g., support in the independent evaluation of offers, mediation of contacts to plant construction companies, etc.
- DIN-compliant fuel analysis and characterization, including calorific value determination, elemental, proximate, and sulfur analysis, trace element analysis, BET surface area determination, etc.
- Characterization of behavior and analysis of ash or mineral components under reducing (gasification) and oxidizing conditions (combustion), including ash melting behavior, fouling behavior, slag viscosity, phase analysis (under high temperature and high pressure), etc.
- Evaluation of the gasification and pyrolysis behavior of energy raw materials and comprehensive fuel-technical and chemical-material characterization of intermediate and final products
- Development and modeling-based energetic and material balancing of process chains, especially for syngas-based utilization of carbon-containing energy carriers
- Energetic, ecological, and technological assessment
- Estimation of investment and operating costs at the level of pre-feasibility studies
- Support of feasibility studies, independent technology assessment, and consulting in technology selection, economic evaluation
- Calculation of the material, temperature, and velocity distribution in high-temperature reactors
- Optimization of existing reactors and detailed evaluation of new reactor concepts
- Safety and weak point analysis of existing and new reactor designs
- Calculation of the thermal load of internals
- Slag film calculation and evaluation in entrained flow gasifiers
- Development of new patentable solutions and licensing of patented solutions, joint marketing of patents
- Support in the utilization of patents from the Institute of Energy Process Engineering and Chemical Engineering at TU Bergakademie Freiberg in the field of gasification of carbon-containing energy carriers
- Support of interested companies in defining R&D tasks and deriving projects in the field of material-energetic energy carrier utilization
- Networking of potential consortium or R&D partners for the implementation of complex R&D projects and identification of financing or funding opportunities
- Mediation and preparation of projects using the laboratory and pilot plant infrastructure, in particular the pilot-scale facilities of the Chair of Energy Process Engineering and Thermal Residue Treatment at the Institute of Energy Process Engineering and Chemical Engineering at TU Bergakademie Freiberg
Current R&D projects
The DBI-Virtuhcon GmbH is participating in the research project “InnoTeam Bio2H₂.” A new technology for the production and storage of hydrogen from biogenic residues and waste materials is to be developed. DBI-Virtuhcon GmbH is developing a thermochemical conversion route that enables the production of hydrogen and other basic chemicals (e.g., methanol, olefins, and methane) from sewage sludge and other biogenic residues and waste materials.
The project has a duration of two years (2025–2027) and is funded by the European Social Fund and the Free State of Saxony within the framework of the InnoTeam directive.
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Completed R&D projects
InnoTeam InnoSynfuels
The DBI-Virtuhcon GmbH is participating in the project InnoSynfuels, an initiative with the goal of developing innovative processes for the production of synthetic fuels from CO₂ and H₂.
The project has a duration of two years (2020–2022) and is funded by the European Social Fund and the Free State of Saxony within the framework of the InnoTeam directive.
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