Practical trainings, student assistants and theses

Closing material cycles is a major challenge for ensuring a resilient supply of raw materials for the development of future technologies. To this end, it is necessary to establish a new generation of adaptive and modularized processing plants that can recover raw materials from complex material flows.
The range of applications for various processing technologies for recycling electronic scrap is to be tested in a real-world pilot plant. To this end, various shredding, sorting, screening, and separation machines are to be connected to each other via a commercially available shuttle-based logistics system. The shuttles traveling on this system will be responsible for autonomous transport between the machines. As part of the master's thesis, a virtual commissioning of the transport system will be carried out, in which, in addition to calculating the individual machine throughputs by considering the running and travel times of the shuttles, potential bottlenecks will also be identified. Limiting factors and the evaluation of different variants will be examined in detail.

• Knowledge of CAD software
• Knowledge of processing technology and the “fe.screen-sim” program is an advantage
• Tinkering skills
• Ability to work independently and reliably

• Student work, full-time if possible
• Start date: by arrangement
• Funding: Remuneration according to internal HZDR regulations