Professorship for Sustainable Chemistry and Material Resources
Organisational unit: Section
Organisation profile
RESEARCH AND TEACHING
Chair for Sustainable Chemistry and Material Resources
We research and train in the field of sustainable chemistry and pharmacy.
We focus on environmental questions as well as on sustainable questions going beyond that such as social and ecological aspects in the context of the life cycle of chemical substances and products. This includes the extraction of raw material, its use as well as the fate after its use. We are also interested in the material flow associated with the extraction and use of the raw material. On top of the experimental work and modeling, we also develop concepts as for example Benign by Design intended dissipation.
Our research and teaching is carried out on an intra- and transdisciplinary scale within the Faculty of Sustainability together with national and international co-operations.
Topics
We are interested in environmental affairs and all questions concerning the sustainability within the context of the life cycle of chemicals, starting with the raw material itself and going on to the synthesis, the use to end up with the environmental fate of chemical substances and products after their use. Beyond the chemical substances and products themselves, we are also interested in the associated material flows, especially when it comes to the so-called strategic resources (e. g. phosphate, seldom metals).
We investigate the fate (e. g. identification of relevant sources) in the environment as well as the spread and the behavior of chemicals (e. g. spread, biological and photochemical degradation) in the aquatic environment in the sense of a sustainable water management. This is why we want to record their effects (e. g. genotoxicity, mutagenity, and bacteria toxicity).At present we are focusing on pesticides, pharmaceuticals, textile auxiliary agents and nanoparticles.
Service offers
Examination of (bio)-degradability of chemicals and pharmaceuticals
according to OECD/DIN/ISO and others:
• Closed Bottle-Test (OECD 301 D)
• Manometric Respirometry (OECD 301 F)
• Zahn-Wellens-Test (OECD 302 B)
• Waste water treatment plant simulation (OECD 303 A)
• Water Sediment Test
• Photochemical degradation
• Photocatalytic degradation
• Electro coalugation
• and other
Toxicity
Acute and chronic toxicity in bacteria:
• Luminescent bacteria test with Vibrio fischeri (30 minutes and 20h)
• Growth-inhibition test with Pseudomonas putida (16h) and Vibrio fischeri (20h)
• Growth-inhibition test with Enteroccus faecalis
Genotoxicity:
• Ames-Test with Salmonella typhimurium TA 98/TA 100
• Umu-Test with Salmonella typhimurium TA 1535/ psK 1002
• Mikronucleus-Test with CHO-Cells by FACS-Analysis
• Green Screen-Assay with TK6-cells
Chemical informatics
Structure property relationships
• Calculation of physicochemical properties of molecules
• Calculation of quantum chemical parameters of molecules
• Calculation of toxicity and mutagenicity
• Calculation of the biological degradation
• Calculation of metabolites (mammalia bacteria)
• Targeted design of chemicals and pharmaceuticals
• Support in purchasing decisions
• Product optimization
• REACH
Water flux based reactive mass transport modelling and assessment
• Spatio-temporal analysis of discharge and water quality (R-Statistics, SigmaPlot, ArcGIS)
• Assessment of water quality by combined water quality and quantity indices (WQI, WQQI, WAI)
• Water quality modelling in lakes and reservoirs in 1D, 2D and 3D (LAC, MOHID Water, Ce-qual)
• Catchment modelling of hydrology, erosion and sedimenttransport, phosphorus discharge, pesticides and transformation product discharge (ZIN-Sed, MOHID Land, reservoir models)
• River channel modelling of water, sediment, phosphorus, pesticide and transformation product discharge (ZIN-Sed, MOHID Stream)
• Scenario modelling and assessment
• System analysis and management assessment
• Integrated water ressources management
Analytics
• Liquid chromatography coupled to ion trap mass spectrometry
• HPLC with UV and fluorescence detection
• Gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry
• Ion chromatography
Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker e.V. (External organisation)
Waleed M. M. Mahmoud (Member)
2012 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Gesunder Umgang mit der Zeit: Eine andere Zeitkultur als Perspektive jenseits von bloßem Zeitmanagement.
Klaus Kümmerer (Speaker)
01.02.2004Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Green Pharmacy Conference 2017
Klaus Kümmerer (Speaker)
27.10.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Grundwassergefährdung durch biozide Wirkstoffe und ihrer Transformationsprodukte im urbanen Niederschlagsabfluss?
Oliver Olsson (Speaker)
05.11.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Grünes Design allein reicht nicht mehr
Klaus Kümmerer (Keynote Speaker)
08.02.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Gutachten - Stand der Technik und fortschrittliche Ansätze in der Entsorgung des Flowback.: Abwasserentsorgung und Stoffstrombilanz im Rahmen der Fracking-Technologie für die Erdgasgewinnung
Oliver Olsson (Reviewer)
12.2011 → 07.2012Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Transfer
Health Executive Summit - 2010
Klaus Kümmerer (Speaker)
19.05.2010 → 21.05.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Herkunft, Vorkommen, Verhalten und Verbleib von Arzneimitteln in der aquatischen Umwelt.
Klaus Kümmerer (Speaker)
24.03.2004 → 26.03.2004Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
High resolution assessment and modelling of suspended sediment in an agricultural catchment
Matthias Gaßmann (Speaker), Jens Lange (Speaker) & Tobias Schütz (Speaker)
13.04.2008 → 18.04.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Households as important source of biocidal active substances in influents of sewage treatment plants
Stefanie Wieck (presenter)
03.05.2015 → 07.05.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (Journal)
Matthias Gaßmann (Reviewer)
2014 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Iberoamerican Conference on advance oxidation technologies - IV CIPOA 2019
Marcelo Luis Wilde (Speaker) & Klaus Kümmerer (Coauthor)
18.11.2019 → 22.11.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Identification and Assessment of Photo Transformation Products of the UV Filters Octocrylene and Ethylhexyl methoxycinnamate Present in Grey Water Intended for Water Reuse
Franziska Jentzsch (Speaker), Christoph Leder (Speaker), Oliver Olsson (Speaker), Klaus Kümmerer (Speaker) & Franziska Jentzsch (presenter)
20.09.2015 → 24.09.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Identification and Determination of Selected Pharmaceuticals and Their Dead End Degradation Products in Degradation Testing
Waleed M. M. Mahmoud (Oral presentation)
06.10.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Identification of photo-transformation products of ciprofloxacin and evaluation of their genotoxicity using in silco methods and in vitro assay
Klaus Kümmerer (presenter), Tarek Haddad (Coauthor), Anju Priya Toolaram (Coauthor) & Christoph Leder (presenter)
03.06.2013 → 04.06.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Indian Chemical Council Webinar "FROM GREEN CHEMISTRY TO CHEMISTRY IN A CIRCULAR ECONOMY TO SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY"
Klaus Kümmerer (Speaker)
18.01.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Initial microbial ecotoxicitiy assessment of thioridazine, thioridazine 5-sulfoxide and photolytic mixtures of thioridazine
Jakob Menz (presenter)
11.05.2014 → 15.05.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology 2017
Klaus Kümmerer (Speaker)
31.08.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
International Conference: Pharmaceuticals in the Environment - 2007
Klaus Kümmerer (presenter)
19.09.2007 → 21.09.2007Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
International Workshop in Recent Achievements on the Study of Extreme Events - 2010
Klaus Kümmerer (Speaker)
27.09.2010 → 29.09.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research