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TU Darmstadt wins the VDI chemPLANT competition.
The team from the Technical University of Darmstadt has won the 9th VDI chemPLANT competition to students. The teams were tasked with developing innovative manufacturing processes to monomers derived from cellulose that are suitable to the production of polyesters.
This year’s assignment was titled “POLYchem: From Cellulose to Monomer/Polymer.” The competition took place on the 16th. September 2026, as part of the DECHEMA Forum in Frankfurt am Main.
Second and third places were taken by the Hochschule Niederrhein and the Karlsruhe Institute of methodology (KIT). A total of €3,500 in prize money was awarded.
Sustainable polyester from cellulose
At the core of the chemPLANT 2026 challenge was the research of an innovative process that converts cellulose into a customizable monomer to polyester production. The participants should demonstrate,
which polyesters or copolyesters can be produced from the synthesized monomer, what characteristics these materials exhibit in possible consumption areas, whether they can equivalently replace fossil-based polymers or enable new materials with improved characteristics, what the possible market to the developed materials might look like, and to what extent sustainable or fossil-based feedstocks are required, how the carbon footprint compares to that of a fossil-based reference polymer, and how the required purity of the monomer to subsequent polymerization is ensured.
which polyesters or copolyesters can be produced from the manufactured monomer,
what characteristics these materials exhibit in possible consumption areas,
whether they can equally replace fossil-based polymers or enable new materials with enhanced characteristics,
what the possible market to the developed materials might look like,
to what extent sustainable or fossil feedstocks are required,
how the carbon footprint compares to that of a fossil-based reference polymer, as well as
how the required purity of the monomer to subsequent polymerization is ensured.
The chemPLANT competition is aimed at students of process engineering, chemical engineering, and related disciplines. It connects current issues in the chemical sector with engineering practice. The teams develop processes, assess technical, ecological, and economic aspects, and present their concepts to a panel of experts. The concept competition organized by the VDI Society to Process Engineering and Chemical Engineering (GVC) promotes exchange between universities and sector and enables aspiring engineers to apply their expertise to current challenges.
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