The 27th International Congress of Chemical and Process Engineering – CHISA 2024 – took place in Prague, Czech Republic, from August 25-29, 2024.

At the ASME PVP (Pressure Vessels & Piping) Conference, Aaron Röblitz was decorated with the „PVPD Conference Award“ for the outstanding technical paper „Visualization of the Decomposition and Relief Process in High-Pressure Systems“ presented on ASME PVP 2023.

This year's ChemCup, the soccer tournament of the chemistry department, took place in the university’s stadium (Hochschulstadion) on July 30. This time, a total of ten teams were put together by the different research groups of the department.

Professor Busch, Aaron Röblitz and Christoph Weigel traveled to the ASME PVP (Pressure Vessels & Piping) conference in Bellevue (Washington, USA) this year to present current research from the working group in two lectures.

On July 26, an excursion to the BASF Verbund site in Ludwigshafen took place as part of the TC1 lecture led by Dr. Kristina Zentel.

This year, six PhD students from the working group Busch participated in the ESS-HPT („The European Summer School in High Pressure Technology“) 2024, which took place from July 7 to 20 in Graz, Austria.

On July 10, the semi-annual graduation party of the department of chemistry took place, which honors the graduates, who completed their Bachelor's or Master's degree or doctorate.

The seventeenth annual meeting of Darmstadt’s Chemical Technologists with the award of the Ernst-Berl-Medal took place on 5 July 2024 at the Restaurant Oberwaldhaus.

In the context of the long-standing cooperation between the research group Busch and SCG, Professor Busch, Julian Kirsch, Alina Weber and Christoph Weigel visited the company at its Rayong site in Thailand from 22 June to 1 July.

The 17th LDPE Plant Improvement Conference took place this year from 17 to 19 June in the Latvian capital of Riga. On the conference organized by Uhde HPT, companies involved in the operation of LDPE and EVA production plants get together to exchange news and innovations in the industry.