Razan Alsharqawi KIT

M.Sc. Razan Alsharqawi

  • Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
    Institut für Technische Chemie (ITC)
    Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1
    76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen

Department Pyrolysis / Gas Treatment

Research Topics:

PhD thesis: Influence of the presence of bromine on the effectiveness of plastic pyrolysis as an option for the recycling of flame-retarded plastics

  • Investigation of the pyrolysis behavior of flame-retarded plastics, with focus on brominated flame retardants
  • Identification of the degradation mechanisms of flame-retarded plastics
  • Modeling of degradation mechanisms as a function of various process variables
     

Scientific CV:

since 12/2020 Research assistant at the Institute for Technical Chemistry at KIT
2018 - 2020 M.Sc. Air Quality Control, Solid Waste and Waste Water Process Engineering (WASTE) at the University of Stuttgart, Topic of master's thesis: Experimentally-based design of a laboratory-scale reactor concept for the pyrolysis of plastics in a disperse reaction system
2011 - 2016 B.Sc. Civil Engineering with focus on Environmental Engineering at the German-Jordanian University (GJU)

Publications:


2025
Towards the Circularity of Flame-Retarded Expanded Polystyrene via Pyrolysis
Alsharqawi, R.; Merz, D.; Zeller, M.; Netsch, N.; Kurtz, T.; Bergfeldt, B.; Tavakkol, S.; Stapf, D.
2025, September 17. PYROLIQ III: Pyrolysis and Liquefaction of Biomass and Wastes (2025), Cetraro, Italy, September 14–19, 2025
Chemical recycling of flame-retarded Plastics: Reducing the bromine content in the pyrolysis oil using calcium-based sorbents
Alsharqawi, R.; Bergfeldt, B.; Merz, D.; Richter, F.; Straczewski, G.; Netsch, N.; Tavakkol, S.; Stapf, D.
2025, June 5. 20th European Meeting on Fire Retardant Polymeric Materials (FRPM 2025), Madrid, Spain, June 3–6, 2025
Closing the loop: pyrolysis of flame-retarded (E)PS
Alsharqawi, R.; Merz, D.; Kurtz, T.; Zeller, M.; Netsch, N.; Bergfeldt, B.; Tavakkol, S.; Stapf, D.
2025, March 18. Jahrestreffen der DECHEMA-Fachgruppen Abfallbehandlung und Wertstoffrückgewinnung (AuW), Hochtemperaturtechnik (HTT) und Rohstoffe (ROH 2025), Dresden, Germany, March 17–18, 2025
Pyrolysis of Polystyrene with Mineral Fillers: Perspectives for Recycling of the Plastic-rich Fraction from Thermal Insulation Construction Material
Kurtz, T.; Merz, D.; Garbev, K.; Alsharqawi, R.; Stemmermann, P.; Tavakkol, S.; Stapf, D.
2025, March 18. Jahrestreffen der DECHEMA-Fachgruppen Abfallbehandlung und Wertstoffrückgewinnung (AuW), Hochtemperaturtechnik (HTT) und Rohstoffe (ROH 2025), Dresden, Germany, March 17–18, 2025
2024
The influence of brominated flame-retardants on the pyrolysis behavior of plastics via TGA and Py-GC-MS
Alsharqawi, R.; Merz, D.; Bergfeldt, B.; Straczewski, G.; Tavakkol, S.; Stapf, D.
2024, August 22. 10th International Conference on Engineering for Waste and Biomass Valorisation (WasteEng 2024), Sendai, Japan, August 20–23, 2024