Specialization Environmental Technologies Print E-mail
In view of the increasing pollution of our environment by waste and hazardous substances in waste water and emissions, and considering the related negative impact on the quality of our lives, technical environmental protection is gaining ever more importance. Over the past few years environmental technology has therefore not only developed into a key technology for our future but has also, from an economic perspective, become a growth sector.

Process engineering is a separate field of engineering concerned with the processing and transformation of raw materials into marketable intermediate and end products. More than fifty percent of industrial production in the German-speaking industry essentially depend on process engineering, for example, the production of fuels, sugars, plastics, proteins, cosmetics, alcohols, pesticides or medications.