• Turning Innovation into Technology

    Circular Technology Competence Board

Who we are

CTCB is a European innovation and technology platform for circular bioeconomy.

We connect research, technologies, industry, and investors and offer a free platform for networking and market implementation for interested parties from municipalities, companies, and science.

Our goal: self-sufficient supply systems that use resources, energy and recyclable materials in closed, circular loops – efficient, scalable and economically viable.

The mission

To supply commercial properties and smaller communities, independently of the grid, completely self-sufficiently in a closed, circular cycle. To integrate existing infrastructure and systems, optimize them and control them centrally.

To efficiently network all components with each other, optimally connect them and make the best possible use of all possible material flows by means of our own data acquisition, AI and process engineering.

The goal is effectiveness, efficiency, reduction of energy consumption and emissions, cost savings and independence from supra-regional electricity and supply networks and infrastructure.

This leads to a relief of the grids, a self-sufficient supply at lower costs and an adaptation to the current situation and changing requirements that is possible at any time.

Our solution: An innovative, modular circular economy model for the self-sufficient, autonomous supply and control of infrastructures

The implementation

Various departments of renowned universities, engineering offices and partner companies design and develop solutions for the infrastructure together with the clients. Existing plants and systems are integrated, local producers and companies build on site. The required technologies are defined and adapted locally as needed.

The construction and building is carried out, as far as possible, with regional companies and workers. In various construction phases, the planned plants are erected, infrastructure and networking are built up in parallel and integrated into the existing systems. With the construction of its own structure, the public connection is reduced until the community is as self-sufficient as possible after completion. From a long-term perspective, this can be continued (modular concept).

An EcoFarming project is being set up according to local conditions. This serves the security of supply and provides, for example, biomass as a raw material for energy production and serves to improve the quality of life.

Our fields of expertise

Agriculture & Food

Circular Farming – intelligent, resource-efficient agriculture.

Droplet Droplet

Water & Material Flows

Circulation and recovery of water and nutrients.

Energy & storage technologies

Self-sufficient systems for electricity, heat and hydrogen.

Recycling & material cycles

Self-sufficient systems for electricity, heat and hydrogen.

Pharmaceuticals & Cosmetics

Bio-based processes for innovative ingredients.

Platform chemicals

Bio-based processes for new value chains.

The technologies

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  • Establishment of a recyclable material cycle
  • Complete recycling of waste for energy and raw materials
  • Optimization of sewage treatment plants / sewage sludge recycling
  • Wastewater treatment for problem wastewater
  • Intelligent process engineering
  • AI and networking of all plants
  • Automated monitoring, service and maintenance
  • Complete data acquisition and data evaluation
  • Optimized networks and infrastructure
  • Energy-efficient buildings and building technology
  • Efficient recycling and recycling plants
  • EcoFarming in a closed cycle system
  • Aquaponics
  • Vertical Farming
  • Pyrolysis and synthesis gas production
  • PV and Agri-PV systems, VWKA
  • Hydrogen production and hydrogen storage
  • Battery storage technology and systems
  • Optimization and networking of CHP
  • Rededication of biogas plants, biochar production
  • Raw material extraction from waste

All technologies are provided by competent companies from our network.

Reference project – DRW Ursberg

The Dominikus-Ringeisen-Werk (DRW) in Ursberg is the first real laboratory of the CTCB network and serves as a practical model location for circular energy and material flow systems.

The institution is one of the largest social service providers in southern Germany: more than 5,500 employees support more than 5,000 people with disabilities every day at around 30 locations. The headquarters in Ursberg combines workshops, care and educational facilities, agriculture and its own energy supply – an ideal place to test circular economy in real operation.

Together with the Technical University of Munich, an integrated supply system is being set up there that generates energy, heat and hydrogen directly from regional residual materials such as liquid manure, sewage sludge and organic waste.

The project is funded as part of the Reallabor initiative of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy. It combines research, social responsibility and economic scalability – an approach that shows that technological innovation can also provide public services.

Intelligent process engineering, energy storage and AI-supported control create an almost self-sufficient, modular system that gradually replaces fossil fuels and strengthens regional value creation.

Ursberg thus acts as a lighthouse project for municipalities, social institutions and medium-sized companies that not only want to think about sustainable supply, but also implement it.

Cooperation and network

The CTCB works with leading European universities, technology developers and industrial partners.

Our real laboratories create practical results and open up new business models for sustainable infrastructure.

A detailed overview of our network partners/companies is available on request, after determining your needs profile.

Contact

Please contact us for further information.

info@ctcb.tech

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