The 37th Umbrella Symposium, held at Forschungszentrum Jülich in late September, focused on advancing energy materials through modern analytics and artificial intelligence (AI). The goal is to develop innovative solutions for the future of energy supply. The international dialogue among researchers highlighted how science can help address global challenges.
Forschungszentrum Jülich has inaugurated a state-of-the-art test facility for electrolysers used in the production of green hydrogen. The facility, part of the BMBF project H2Giga, examines industrial stacks using advanced sensor technology. The goal is to make electrolysers more efficient and durable. Additionally, the final report of the H2ATLAS AFRICA project, which analyses the potential for green hydrogen production in Africa, was presented.
JARA-ENERGY scientist Prof Michael Eikerling has been elected a Fellow of the International Society of Electrochemistry. The award honours his work on theoretical electrochemistry, in particular his contributions to the simulation of electrocatalytic reactions at interfaces.
Hydrogen will play an important role in the future energy landscape for the storage of renewable energy. However, the rapid implementation of a hydrogen infrastructure faces technological challenges in production, storage, energy utilization, and methods for integrating different renewable energy sources, energy sectors, and geographical regions. The new international graduate school "Hy-Potential: Hydrogen – Fundamentals for Production, Storage and Transport, Applications and Economy," led by JARA-ENERGY and JARA-CSD member Professor Heinz Pitsch, addresses precisely these issues.
On March 6th, the decentralized fuel cell system from Robert Bosch GmbH was inaugurated at Hermann-Josef Hospital in Erkelenz during a festive ceremony. This signifies the commencement of the Multi-SOFC Erkelenz demonstration project, in which JARA-ENERGY member Prof. Peter Wasserscheid and his institute play a significant role.
Pierre Golz from Herne.Digital GmbH provided insights into the future of our cities at the 11th JARA-ENERGY Talks. Using the example of the city of Herne, which is implementing innovative solutions as a pioneer, Pierre Golz showed how important modern urban development is regarding the energy transition. An inspiring look at the complexity and possibilities of making our cities sustainable.
JARA-ENERGY member Prof. Regina Palkovits has been appointed by the NRW state government to the new committee for the progression of a sustainable bio-based economy in North Rhine-Westphalia.
The diligent efforts have already borne fruit. Just in September, the students of the International Master's Programme in Energy and Green Hydrogen (IMP-EGH) joyfully marked the completion of their Master's degrees. Now, six graduates have earned full or partial scholarships to participate in the Conference of Youth (COY18) and the Student Energy Summit (SES).
The German Research Foundation DFG has decided to provide continued funding for the Collaborative Research Center “Structural and Chemical Atomic Complexity – From Defect Phase Diagrams to Material Properties”. Led by JARA-ENERGY Scientist Prof. Sandra Korte-Kerzel, researchers are designing new materials at the atomic scale.
Germany aims to be carbon-neutral by 2045. But is that realistic? The team led by JARA-ENERGY scientist Prof. Detlef Stolten has published a study focusing on the year 2030, a pivotal milestone on the path to the "Net-Zero" goal.
All 59 students of the International Master's Program in Energy and Green Hydrogen (IMP-EGH) had a reason to celebrate: They successfully completed their master's program and were given a ceremonial send-off in October.
On October 1st, Professor Dr. Regina Palkovits, a scientist in the JARA-ENERGY department and Director at INW (Forschungszentrum Jülich), took the helm as the Head of the Institute's Catalyst Materials Division (INW-2). She also holds a Chair in Heterogeneous Catalysis and Technical Chemistry at the Institute of Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry at RWTH Aachen University.
On October 1st, Prof. Dr. Regina Palkovits, a scientist in the JARA-ENERGY section and director at INW (Forschungszentrum Jülich), assumed the leadership of the Institute of Catalytic Materials (INW-2). She also holds a Chair of Heterogeneous Catalysis and Technical Chemistry at the Institute of Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry at RWTH Aachen University.
The start-ups "Accure" and "Cylib", founded from RWTH, have been awarded the NRW 2023 Innovation Prize. Co-founder and head of the chair from which the start-up "Accure" emerged is JARA-ENERGY member Prof. Dirk-Uwe Sauer.
Spin-offs, start-ups, young entrepreneurship - these have long been elementary areas of research and teaching. Ideally, the young founders receive the best possible support from their professors. JARA-ENERGY Director Professor Antonello Monti has now been honoured with the prestigious "UNIPRENEURS" award for his commitment in this area. The Federal Minister for Education and Research, Bettina Stark-Watzinger, together with Dr. Anna Christmann, the Federal Government Commissioner for the Digital Economy and Start-ups, presented the trophies at a festive evening in Berlin.
Solar power and agriculture in one field – RWE and Forschungszentrum Jülich want to demonstrate how this can work in a demonstration plant in the Rhenish mining district. On September 6, 2023 RWE officially launched the project in the presence of Frank Rock, Rhine-Erft County Commissioner, Sascha Solbach, Mayor of the City of Bedburg, and Prof Ulrich Schurr (JARA-ENERGY).
The institute of JARA-ENERGY member Prof. Dirk Müller deals with technologies that make buildings climate-friendly. These technologies include heat pumps as well as cold heat networks. The heating of buildings and provision of domestic hot water contribute significantly to CO2 emissions and energy demand in Germany. Prof. Müller and his team are working on climate-friendly alternatives.
Exciting months are starting this week for 59 students from 15 West African countries. As part of the International Master's Programme in Energy and Green Hydrogen (IMP-EGH), the young master's students have come to Germany to write their master's thesis under the umbrella of the Jülich Aachen Research Alliance, at Forschungszentrum Jülich, RWTH Aachen University as well as the University of Rostock. The Welcome Ceremony on April 25 marked the beginning of the Onboarding Week and the stay in Germany.
Scientists at Forschungszentrum Jülich have developed and successfully lab-tested a novel titanium-air battery in cooperation with researchers at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. The Umbrella Cooperation enables the close exchange between the two JARA partners RWTH Aachen University and Forschungszentrum Jülich with the Israeli partner Technion.
The American Ceramic Society (ACerS), the largest ceramic society worldwide, recognizes dedicated members who demonstrate exceptional leadership and service that benefits to the society and the global ceramics community. For his outstanding scientific achievements, mentoring of students and young professionals, Prof. Olivier Guillon (JARA-ENERGY) has now been recognized as ACerS Global Ambassador.
At 11:00am on December 8, 2022, the federal, state and local governments tested their warning systems in a joint exercise. In addition to radio, television and warning apps, cell broadcast was used for the first time. A cell broadcast message was sent to all cell phones in a radio cell, allowing millions of phone users to be reached within seconds.
Prof. Olivier Guillon, JARA-ENERGY member has been appointed Fellow of the American Ceramic Society. The certificate was awarded to him during The Materials Science & Technology (MS&T) conference in Pittsburgh.
One year after its launch, Germany’s largest hydrogen infrastructure project, which is coordinated by Forschungszentrum Jülich, celebrated its official opening in the town of Jülich’s Brainergy Park on 12 September 2022. The founding director is JARA-ENERGY member Prof. Peter Wasserscheid.
The Institute of JARA-ENERGY member Prof. Dirk Müller in Aachen, together with the Einstein Center Digital Future at TU Berlin, have now formulated recommendations on how to efficiently address the situation that Germany is currently facing with scarce and more expensive natural gas. In addition to industry, commerce, trade, and services, private households should significantly reduce gas consumption for space heating and domestic hot water, if possible through technical measures and behavioral changes that are easy to implement.
Two JARA-ENERGY Scientists and their research team are investigating the security of supply of electric power and economic costs of reducing natural gas consumption. As a result of the Ukraine war, the question is increasingly being asked to what extent the European power supply can do without the consumption of natural gas in the short to medium term.
Clean hydrogen is an important element in successfully advancing the energy transition. The European Commission has recognized this and initiated the Clean Hydrogen Partnership in the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU) together with partners in research and industry. Bart Biebuyck, Executive Director of FCH JU, presented the partnership at the JARA-ENERGY Talks on April 27, 2022.
The German Research Foundation (DFG) is establishing eight new Priority Programmes (SPP), two of them at RWTH Aachen University, headed by JARA scientists. For the total of eight new collaborations, selected from 29 submitted initiatives, approximately 53 million euros will be made available for an initial period of three years.
Since the beginning of Russia's military attack on Ukraine, not only politicians in Germany have been concerned with the question of whether an energy supply without Russian gas and oil would be feasible. Now, scientists from the JARA partner Forschungszentrum Jülich have taken up this question. From the detailed analyses, the experts derived key statements and recommendations for action on the extent to which and how the loss of Russian natural gas imports can be compensated for on different time scales, within a few days, months and years.
Renewable energies require an adaptation of the entire energy system, including all sectors. JARA-ENERGY scientist Prof. Andrea Benigni talks about the challenges of this complex world and what the energy supply of the future will look like in an interview with the Helmholtz Association.
From May 10 - 12, 2022 the 10th International Conference on "Fuel Science - From Production to Propulsion" will take place. We would like to invite you to this conference with either an oral presentation or a poster of your work in the below mentioned fields. Participation registration deadline: February 28, 2022.
At the JARA-ENERGY Talks on January 17, 2022, Marc van Stiphout spoke about the European Green Deal and the connection with Horizon Europe. In his presentation, the Deputy Head of Unit of the Research, Innovation, Competitiveness and Digitalization Unit in the European Commission's Directorate-General for Energy outlined the key objectives of the two programs.
With the "International Master' s Program in Energy and Green Hydrogen" (IMP-EGH), Forschungszentrum Jülich and RWTH Aachen University want to qualify students in West African countries for the future topic of "green hydrogen". After a kick-off last October in Niamey/Niger, the official starting signal on the German side has now been given in Jülich.
Under the heading "The European Green Deal and how Horizon Europe supports it," Mark van Stiphout will report on January 17 on the opportunities that the European Green Deal opens up and how different measures support each other in their implementation.
A study by the Chair of Energy System Economics at RWTH Aachen University, led by JARA-ENERGY scientist Prof. Aaron Praktiknjo, now concludes that the EEG levy poses a major challenge for low-income households. In the meantime, the new "traffic light" coalition plans to abolish the EEG levy from 2023, but the RWTH scientists propose a reform of the EEG levy as an alternative.
In order to be able to protect people in particular from a renewed flood threat such as occurred in the summer of 2021, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is funding the joint project "HoWas2021 - Governance und Kommunikation im Krisenfall des Hochwasserereignisses im Juli 2021". The project is led by JARA-ENERGY scientist Prof. Holger Schüttrumpf. The aim is to improve forecasting, communication and organization.
The threat of flooding in the transportation sector became tragically apparent last summer. Without concrete forecasts and warnings, road users are quickly trapped by flood-related water levels. The project "ISRV - Intelligent Heavy Rainfall-Related Flood Risk Warning in the Transport Sector" will now use artificial intelligence to more reliably predict such weather events and protect the transport sector. The institute of JARA-ENERGY member Prof. Holger Schüttrumpf is involved in the project.
BMBF-funded master's program trains energy experts for renewable energies and green hydrogen in West Africa. On the occasion of the inauguration of the program, a German delegation visited the first 60 students in Niamey, Niger. Prof. Peter Letmathe from RWTH Aachen University and JARA-ENERGY member Prof. Uwe Rau (Forschungszentrum Jülich) accompanied the delegation and gave first introductory lectures.
An international team around JARA-ENERGY scientist Prof. André Bardow has now proven in a study that plastic with net-zero emissions is possible. It is important to consider the entire life cycle of the material, from production to recycling. The study was recently published in the journal Science.
At the DGM Day in early September, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Materialkunde e.V. (DGM) awarded its prestigious prizes. The DGM Prize 2021 was awarded to JARA-ENERGY scientist Prof. Sandra Korte-Kerzel. With this award, the society honors Korte-Kerzel's contributions to materials science and engineering.
After a successful start in fall 2019, the project "Incubator Sustainable Electrochemical Value Chains" (iNEW) is now entering its second phase. The aim of the project is to realize the industrial use of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. The scientific "head" of iNEW is JARA-ENERGY member Prof. Rüdiger A. Eichel.
A new early-warning system developed at at the institute of Prof. Holger Schüttrumpf (JARA-ENERGY) at RWTH Aachen University can determine the risk of flooding due to heavy rainfall and predict the expected damage right down to the house number. People affected could thus be alerted with pinpoint accuracy.
An international team of researchers, led by JARA-ENEGRY scientist Prof. Walter Leitner, has been able to publish results on a rationally designed catalyst that is fully reversible and adapts in real time to changes in the reaction system. In this way, the system enables the selective generation of different products depending on the hydrogen source.
JARA-ENERGY scientist Professor Dirk Uwe Sauer is a new member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, formerly the Prussian Academy of Sciences. With this admission, the Academy honors Prof. Sauer's achievements in energy research.
The Grants Committee of the German Research Foundation has extended the funding for the Collaborative Research Center/Transregio "Oxyflame - Development of Methods and Models to Describe the Reaction of Solid Fuels in an Oxyfuel Atmosphere" for a third funding period of four years. Spokesperson of the SFB 129 is JARA-ENERGY member Prof. Reinhold Kneer.
For the sixth time, the "JARA-ENERGY Talks" event took place on April 28. On this occasion, Dr. Shuli Goodman of LF Energy spoke to more than 100 international participants about the need to reduce carbon emissions and accelerate the realization of the energy transition. Novel approaches such as the use of open-source solutions as well as the handling of the resulting amount of data were addressed.
With the German-Canadian Materials Acceleration Centre (GC-MAC), the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Canadian government are creating a joint platform for the rapid development of climate-neutral energy technologies. Its objective is to achieve technological advances in particular in hydrogen production as well as CO2-neutral fuels and energy storage. The coordinator for Germany is JARA-ENERGY member Prof. Michael Eikerling, head of the Institute for Energy and Climate Research (IEK-13) at Forschungszentrum Jülich.
In her presentation, Shuli Goodman talks about the need to accelerate the reduction of carbon emissions and the realization of the energy transition. Approximately 75 percent of our global carbon emissions can be mitigated through the electrification of energy and transportation. By adopting an open source strategy that maximizes flexibility, agility, and interoperability, we can learn to adapt innovation to the pace of technology development.
The Committee of the European Ceramic Society (ECERS) unanimously elected JARA-ENERGY member Prof. Olivier Guillon, Director of the Institute for Energy and Climate Research, Materials Synthesis and Manufacturing Processes (IEK-1) at Forschungszentrum Jülich, as this year's Fellow. Guillon was elected at the ECERS meeting on February 17, 2021.
RWTH Aachen University awarded the "IntSpire" prize for the first time this year. The Institute of General Mechanics, led by JARA-ENERGY member Professor Bernd Markert, prevailed against 30 other nominees. The prize honors employees, students, chairs, institutes, or institutions of the university that have especially fostered an international culture at RWTH.
The world's largest plant for storing green hydrogen in liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHC) on an industrial scale is being built at CHEMPARK Dormagen. North Rhine-Westphalia is supporting the project with a total of 9 million euros. LOHC Industrial Solutions NRW GmbH, a subsidiary of the Erlangen-based company Hydrogenious LOHC Technologies, is responsible for project management and plant operation. Another industrial partner is Covestro Deutschland AG.
The JARA-ENERGY Talks took place for the fifth time on 04 November 2020. Taking account of the global situation, the event was organized in an online format for the first time. Around 140 participants followed the presentations of Prof. Andreas Löschel, University of Münster and Chairman of the Expert Commission "Energy of the Future" of the German Federal Government, who gave a review of the energy transition.
The energy revolution is a tremendous task that the countries of the world can only face together. A group of experts consisting of 22 scientists and five scientific officers has now prepared an ad hoc statement on the subject for the Federal Government. In this statement, the experts summarise the measures that are essential to achieve the climate targets. Prof. Dirk Uwe Sauer, one of the JARA-ENERGY directors, was also part of this group.
The regulatory sandbox "TransUrban.NRW" was launched on the first of May. The project is part of the regulatory sandboxes for energy transition, which were put out to tender by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy last year. Under the direction of E.ON Energy Solution GmbH, three JARA-ENERGY members are involved: Prof. Dirk Müller, Prof. Antonello Monti and Junior Professor Aaron Praktiknjo. The aim of the laboratory is to put energy system transformation innovations into practice.
It is undisputed that energy from fossil fuels must be rapidly replaced by volatile, green energies. Above all, a phase-out of coal energy is necessary to achieve the climate targets. Nuclear energy has also been obsolete for a long time because of its unpredictability. A study by JARA-ENERGY member Prof. Aaron Praktiknjo now shows the effects of the nuclear and coal energy phase-out on the energy supply.
During the "RWTH Transparent" event, Prof. Dirk Uwe Sauer, Director of the JARA section ENERGY, received the teaching award of RWTH Aachen University in the category " Instructor of the Year". Thanks to his innovative and inspiring teaching practices, Sauer is particularly successful in enthusing beginning students and easing their transition to university study. Students praise, for example, his incorporation of digital teaching tools such as explanatory videos as well as online lectures tutorials.
On November 8th, 2019, this year' s "Career Day" will take place at Forschungszentrum Jülich. The event is aimed at doctoral students and postdocs. From 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., participants will have the chance to learn more about career paths and options in science. One of the speakers is JARA-ENERGY member Prof. Egbert Figgemeier.
„Wie die Energiewende gelingt – Forschung und Innovation als Motor für gesellschaftlichen Wandel“ is the title of the fourth JARA-ENERGY Talks. On this occasion, Andreas Feicht, State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy, will speak on the topic: "How to succeed in the energy system transformation - research and innovation as a motor for social change".
The German Chemical Society (GDCh) is organizing the Society's seventh Science Forum on Chemistry. Experts from business, science, education and politics will meet this year in Aachen under the title "Chemistry - the common element". Several scientists from the JARA sections ENERGY, FIT and SOFT will participate in the different sessions with interesting lectures.
Modern materials are often exposed to extraordinary loads. In order to achieve the best results in their field of application, they must combine a wide variety of characteristics. For example, metals used in an aircraft engine must be highly stable and heat-resistant at the same time as being easy to shape. MAX-phase materials combine these and other qualities. In order to be able to use MAX phases industrially, scientists of the team around JARA-ENERGY member Prof. Olivier Guillon have developed a new manufacturing process.
The harmful emissions released from energy production in Southeast Asia have an impact on the regional and global climate. The Asian monsoon has an impact on the spatial redistribution of emissions. The Institute for Energy and Climate Research, Stratosphere, headed by JARA-ENERGY member Prof. Martin Riese, is investigating these effects in cooperation with the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP) in Beijing and the Bergische Universität Wuppertal.
For the 33rd time, the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion), RWTH Aachen University and Forschungszentrum Jülich are jointly organizing the Umbrella Symposium to exchange information on the state of the art in current research and to strengthen cooperation. The symposium will take place from 27 to 29 May 2019 in the Forschungszentrum Jülich.
Scientists from Forschungszentrum Jülich and the University of Münster have presented a new solid-state battery featuring an anode made of pure lithium. Lithium is considered an ideal electrode material which can help achieve extremely high energy densities. The metal is very reactive, which previously precluded its use as an anode material. This has now been made possible by means of two additional layers of a novel polymer. With Prof. Rüdiger A. Eichel and Prof. Florian Hausen, two JARA-ENERGY members are significantly involved in the investigations.
At the Institute for Combustion Technology at RWTH Aachen University, headed by JARA-ENERGY Member Prof. Heinz Pitsch, one major research objective deals with the challenges of hydrogen combustion in the context of sustainable energy concepts. Hydrogen represents a promising fuel, which combines a feasible and well understood production process with clean combustion. However, before hydrogen combustion becomes fully applicable in actual engines, a deeper understanding of its combustion behavior is required.
There are currently great hopes for solid-state batteries. They contain no liquid parts that could leak or catch fire For this reason, they do not require cooling and are considered to be much safer, more reliable, and longer lasting than traditional lithium-ion batteries. Scientists at the Institute of JARA-ENERGY member Prof. Rüdiger A. Eichel have now presented a new concept that allows ten times higher currents during charging and discharging than previously expected. The improvement was achieved by a "clever" choice of materials. All components were made from phosphate compounds, which are well matched both chemically and mechanically.
At the invitation of the Energy Studies Institute, Professor Aaron Praktiknjo was teaching and researching as visiting professor at the renowned National University of Singapore in summer 2018. In collaboration with the team at the Energy Studies Institute, Professor Praktiknjo is researching factors which are relevant for the reduction of energy poverty and possibilities to implement such factors into energy markets.
For the second time, the Central Library of the Research Centre Jülich was transformed into the centre of the energy transition. Under the title „FORSCHEN:GESELLSCHAFT:ZUKUNFT“ top-class scientists and representatives from industry and associations reported on the status of energy transformation. The focus was on hydrogen as an important component of sector coupling.
The increased use of renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar energy, raises the importance of energy conversion and storage. Candidates offering a high energy conversion efficiency and excellent fuel flexibility are solid oxide electrolysis cells and fuel cells. The working group of JARA-ENERGY member Prof. Manfred Martin researches in this field and focuses on the investigation of doped ceria.
Manufacturing processes in industry are subject to various challenges. The manufactured parts are not only to be produced without defects, but the process itself should also not be expensive and require a short period of time.
The Institute of General Mechanics, headed by JARA-ENERGY member Prof. Bernd Markert, is investigating a promising process for forming processes such as those occurring in the automotive industry.
Dr. Johannes Teyssen, Chairman of the Board of Management of E.ON SE, spoke to his audience last Thursday in a charming, approachable and pointed speech. In the context of the JARA-ENERGY Talks, the energy expert was given the framework to talk about a central theme of the energy transition. Around 120 listeners, including many citizens, scientists and representatives of industry, listened to his speech and then asked questions on the subject.
Most of the automobiles on the roads today continue to move with conventional engines. Petrol and diesel are the predominant fuels. However, the environmental performance of these fuels is anything but green. For some years, not only the demand for alternatives has been increasing, but also the number offer of new technologies. Scientists from the Institute for Energy and Climate Research have now compared battery and fuel cell in a study and evaluated their profitability.
In order to create economic and technically feasible solutions for the conversion of energy system towards renewable energy sources, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research initiated the four Kopernikus projects. The partial project SynErgie investigates how energy-intense industrial processes can be flexibilized to adjust the industrial electricity consumption to a fluctuating electricity supply from renewable sources.
The Institute for General Mechanics (IAM) of the RWTH Aachen University and the Institute for Energy and Climate Research, Electrochemical Process Engineering (IEK-3) of the Research Center Jülich have been working together for a long time. The two institutes are managed by two JARA-ENERGY scientists, Prof. Bernd Markert (IAM) and Prof. Detlef Stolten (IEK-3).
The common goal is the research, development and optimization of porous materials as central components of electrochemical energy conversion equipment. A recent joint study aims to improve the design of Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells (PEFC) by a deep understanding of the functionality and optimization of the design of the porous gas diffusion layer (GDL), the main gate of reactants from the gas channels to the catalyst layer of the PEFC.
Prof. Madlener (JARA-ENERGY) attends the Editorial Board Member Meeting 2017 of Applied Energy and the 9th International Conference on Applied Energy (ICAE) 2017 on “Energizing the Future” in Cardiff, Wales (UK), where he gives a presentation on “System Cost Uncertainty of Micro Fuel Cell Cogeneration and Storage” (joint work with Laurens Löbberding). He is accompanied by Kai Risthaus who presents a joint paper on “Economic Analysis of Electricity Storage Based on Heat Pumps and Thermal Storage Units in Large-Scale Thermal Power Plants.
A transonic centrifugal compressor was aerodynamically optimized at the Institute of Jet Propulsion and Turbomachinery, headed by JARA-ENERGY member Prof. Peter Jeschke, by means of a numerical optimization process. The main applications of these compressors are among others turbochargers of ships, power stations, diesel locomotives, or small gas turbines, small jet engines and auxiliary power units.
In order to provide help for the forging operator the IBF is working on very fast forging simulation models. With these models it is possible to simulate the current pass much faster than in real time. This method has been tested on industrial scale forging presses.
The projects (Energy oriented Center of Excellence EoCoE) aim is to strengthen Europe’s existing leadership in high-performance computing (HPC) and accelerate the transition to a reliable and low carbon energy supply.
Si-Air batteries are currently an interesting perspective for the development of next generation batteries. Unfortunately, nowadays realized prototypes do not reach the theoretical capacity. The group Applied Interface Electrochemistry led by JARA-ENERGY member Juniorprofessor Dr. Florian Hausen is investigating the evolution of the surface structure in order to gain a better understanding of the...
The Institute for Materials Applications in Mechanical Engineering of RWTH Aachen University, headed by JARA-ENERGY member Prof. Christoph Broeckmann, work (among other subjects) on the challenge to adjust cast iron perfectly to the use for wind turbins.
Surface engineering institute (IOT) at RWTH Aachen University, headed by JARA-ENERGY member Prof. Kirsten Bobzin, is one of the leading research institutes in the fields of PVD coating technology, thermal spraying and brazing technology.
DESCRAMBLE is a EU Horizon 2020 project funded within the “Low Carbon Energy” call: “Developing the next generation technologies of renewable electricity and heating/cooling”. The Institute for Applied Geophysics and Geothermal Energy, headed by JARA-ENERGY member Prof. Christoph Clauser, will accompany the drilling effort with reliable predictions of the physical quantities, like temperature, natural flow or rock properties, of the reservoir on regional and local scale.
Since autumn 2015 Prof. H. Vereecken, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, Agrosphere (IBG-3) from Jülich Research Centre and Prof. C. Clauer, Institute for Applied Geophysics and Geothermal Energy (E.ON Energy Research Center) from RWTH Aachen University, both JARA-ENERGY members, are participants in the Energy Oriented Centre of Excellence for computing applications (EoCoE, [1]).
Triggered by the growing demand for systems analysis underpinned by the intensive evaluation of technological innovations awaiting commercialization and conventional, already commercialized technologies, the interlinking of engineering and the natural sciences with economic and social science competencies is increasingly important. This reflects...
Realising the potential of biogenic residues to predictably provide essential nutrients to plants used in energy production and bioeconomy applications.
On April the 5th, Prof. Johanna Wanka, Federal Minister of Education and Research, announced funding for four Copernicus projects for the transformation of the energy sector. The Power-To-X project coordinated by RWTH Aachen University, Forschungszentrum Jülich, and DECHEMA was among those selected.
Energy storage systems are indispensable for a reliable, economical and environmentally friendly energy supply. However the expansion of the only well-known short- and medium-term storage technology, pumped storage plants (PSW), is limited.
During the COOPERATE project, the Institute for Software Engineering (SE), directed by JARA-ENERGY member Prof. Bernhard Rumpe, led the development of a common neighbourhood information model (NIM).
The Institute of Crystallography (IfK) at RWTH Aachen University and the Institute of Energy and Climate Research (IEK) -6 of Forschungszentrum Jülich cooperate, inter alia, within the framework of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) funded joint project "Conditioning" (Fundamental studies for immobilizing long-lived radionuclides by incorporation into repository relevant ceramics).
Increasing population and growing industries and the associated increased energy consumption in emerging Asian economies result in enhanced emissions of greenhouse gases, ozone-depleting substances, and pollution in this region. IEK-7 has already published some basic studies related to the topic of transport processes in the region of the Asian monsoon (Konopka et al., JGR, 2010; Ploeger et al., JGR, 2013; Vogel et al, ACP, 2014; Ploeger et al., ACP, 2015; Vogel et al, ACP, 2015).
The Thermprocess fair in Dusseldorf is the world's most important platform for the presentation of highly innovative technologies in industrial thermal processing technology. The Department for Industrial Furnaces and Heat Engineering (IOB) was represented with its own booth in the Research Association of Industrial Furnace Manufactures (FOGI).
In combustion processes of hydrocarbon-containing fuels, pollutants, such as unburned hydrocarbons (UHC), carbon monoxide (CO), oxides of nitrogen, collectively referred to as NOx, and particulates in the form of soot, are formed and emitted into the atmosphere. The severe environmental effects of increased ambient NOx concentrations have led to stringent emission laws and as a result. A promising tool to accomplish this goal is the design and control of these systems using computational fluid dynamics (CFD).
Over 200 scientists from Germany and abroad, more than 30 lectures, 8 plenaries and over 30 scientific posters: these are the key data concerning this year’s International Conference of the RWTH Aachen Cluster of Excellence “Tailor-Made Fuels from Biomass (TMFB)”, that took place from June 23rd to 25th 2015 in the Eurogress in Aachen.