Techn. Universiẗat, Diss., 2004--Berlin.

University, Diss., 2005--Düsseldorf.

Universiẗat, Diss., 2005--Düsseldorf.

Universiẗat, Diss.--Osnabrück, 1994.

Techn. Universiẗat, Diss., 2003--Darmstadt.

The most main wall insulations of rotating electrical high voltage machines consists of several layers of wound mica tape impregnated with epoxy resins. Methylhexahydrophthalic anhydride and Hexahydrophthalic anhydride are the state-of-the-art curing agents in epoxy insulations and are therefore essential components of the insulation system. Both anhydrides were proposed to the candidate list of Substances of Very High Concern and are therefore part of the European REACH authorization process. The prohibition or restricted use of both anhydrides in Europe in the future is possible and puts high pressure on the European manufacturers of electrical devices. Possible substitutes are available, but have to be qualified e.g. with respect to their dielectric properties. Hence, this paper compares several insulating resin systems with and without anhydride curing agents regarding their dielectric loss behavior. The results reveal that the curing agent has a measurable effect on the dielectric losses. Furthermore, the investigated anhydride-free insulation systems are a viable substitute at least with regard to their dielectric losses.

Das Projekt OEKO-ID hat zum Ziel. problematische Bauteilanschlüsse, insbesondere Balkenköpfe von Holzdecken, im Zusammenhang mit "ökologischen" Innendämmsystemen messtechnisch zu untersuchen. Des Weiteren sollen Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der hygrothermischen Simulation aufgezeigt werden. Ferner wurde eine neue Methode molekularbiologischer und baubiologischer Untersuchungen, hier zur Detektierung von Schimmelpilzen, entwickelt und optimiert.

1. Microbial ecology According to Caumette et al. (2015) the term ecology is derived from the Greek words “oikos” (the house and its operation) and “logos” (the word, knowledge or discourse) and can, therefore, be defined as the scientific field engaged in the “knowledge of the laws governing the house”. This, in extension, results in the simple conclusion that microbial ecology represents the study of the relationship between microorganisms, their co-occurring biota and the prevailing environmental conditions (Caumette et al. 2015). The term microbial ecology has been in use since the early 1960s (Caumette et al. 2015) and microbial ecologists have made astonishing discoveries since. Microbial life at extremes such as in the hydrothermal vents (see Dubilier et al. 2008 and references therein) or the abundance of picophytoplankton (Waterbury et al. 1979; Chisholm et al. 1988) in the deep and surface waters of the oceans, respectively, are only a few of many highlights. Nevertheless, a microbial ecologist who, after leaving the field early in their career, now intends to return would hardly recognise again their former scientific field. The main reason for this hypothesis is to be found in the advances made to the methodologies employed in the field. Most of these were developed for biomedical research and were subsequently hijacked, sometimes followed by minor modifications, by microbial ecologists. The Author presents in this thesis scientific findings which, although spanning only a fraction of the era of research into microbial ecology, have been obtained using various modern tools of the trade. These studies were undertaken by the Author during his employment as postdoctoral scientist at Warwick University (UK), as member of staff at Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK) and as scientist at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg. Although the scientific issues and the environmental habitats investigated by the Author changed due to funding constraints or due to change of work place (i.e. from the marine to the mining environment) the research shared, by and large, a common aim: to further the existing understanding of microbial communities. The methodological approach chosen to achieve this aim employed both isolation followed by the characterisation of microorganisms and culture independent techniques. Both of these strategies utilised again a variety of methods, but techniques in molecular biology represent a common theme. In particular, the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) formed the work horse for much of the research since it has been routinely used for the amplification of a marker gene for strain identification or analysis of the microbial diversity. To achieve this, the amplicons were either directly sequenced by the Sanger approach or analysed via the application of genetic fingerprint techniques or through Sanger sequencing of individual amplicons cloned into a heterologous host. However, the Author did not remain at idle while with these ‘classical’ approaches for the analysis of microbial communities, but utilised the advances made in the development of nucleotide sequence analysis. In particular, the highly parallelised sequencing techniques (e.g. 454 pyrosequencing, Illumina sequencing) offered the chance to obtain both high genetic resolution of the microbial diversity present in a sample and identification of many individuals through sequence comparison with appropriate sequence repositories. Moreover, these next generation sequencing (NGS) techniques also provided a cost-effective opportunity to extent the characterisation of microbial strains to non-clonal cultures and to even complex microbial assemblages (metagenomics). The work involving the high throughput sequencing techniques has been undertaken in collaboration with Dr Jack Gilbert (PML, lateron at Argonne National Laboratory, USA) and, since at Freiberg, with Dr Anja Poehlein (Goettingen University). These colleagues are thanked for their support with sequence data handling and analyses.

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Techn. Universiẗat, Diss., 2003--Darmstadt.