Vortrag der Ringvorlesung „Was steckt dahinter?“

Die Energiewende ist aus der öffentlichen Debatte nicht mehr wegzudenken. Grüner Wasserstoff gilt als zentraler Baustein etwa für Anwendungen in der chemischen Energie oder für Flugzeugantriebe. Doch wie kann künftig die große Menge elektrischer Energie bereitgestellt werden, die aktuell noch in Kohlekraftwerken erzeugt wird? Hier bietet sich Eisen an. Das Metall kann als chemischer Energiespeicher in bestehenden Infrastrukturen genutzt werden und fossile Energieträger ersetzen. Im Vortrag wird das Potenzial einer eisenbasierten Kreislaufwirtschaft aufgezeigt und die Komplementarität von Eisen und Wasserstoff als Energieträger diskutiert.

With workshop on current challenges of energy and climate policy

From 7 to 12 May 2023, the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence “EU@School” of TU Darmstadt and Ben Gurion University of the Negev conducted a study trip with students from both universities. The programme also included a workshop on current EU challenges in energy and climate policy, as well as on the role of the EU-Israel relations.

Andreas Dreizler as guest in “Wissenschaft im Dialog”

Reduction and oxidation of iron as CO2-free future technology for energy generation and storage? Andreas Dreizler talked about this with F.A.Z. journalist Sascha Zoske on April 3, 2023, as a guest of the series “Wissenschaft im Dialog”, organized by the Polytechnische Gesellschaft, the Kunstgewerbeverein Frankfurt and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Call for Contributions

The Emmy Noether Group for Dispersed Multiphase Flows at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg and the Department of Energy Plant Technology of the Ruhr University Bochum are jointly organizing a workshop on Metal Fuels and Metal Dust Combustion.

Poster sessions, discussions, talks and teamwork

The annual Clean Circles retreat took place in Seeheim on 27–28 February 2023. During the retreat, the project leaders and their scientific staff were able to discuss the status of the project and its future.

Review talks and scientific discussions

On the occasion of the 70th birthday of Prof. Dr. Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus, Clean Circles organized in close collaboration with the CRC/TRR 150 the seminar Towards Carbon-neutral Energy and Processes.

Event in cooperation with the Collaborative Research Centres 1194 and Transregio 150

The first Clean Circles Datathon took place on 8 February 2023. The topic was how research data management according to the FAIR principles looks like in practice and how it can be implemented.

New publication in Energy Research and Social Science

Hydrogen is still a niche technology in Germany. Until now, the relatively young public debate on hydrogen policy has also hardly been polarised and conflict-ridden. Michèle Knodt from the Institute of Political Science at TU Darmstadt and colleagues from Masaryk University in Brno (Czech Republic) used a discourse network analysis to investigate how the composition of the actors, their positions and the general discourse structure in Germany have developed. The results were published in the journal Energy Research and Social Science.

At the Technical University of Darmstadt, the HIGHEST start-up platform promotes scientific ideas and accompanies them until the start-up is founded. In interviews, researchers from TU projects and start-ups have their say in the hr-iNFO Wirtschaft podcast. Clean Circles spokesperson Christian Hasse explains approaches to using the idea of “iron as an energy source” via a so-called retrofitting to make it ready for the market.

Clean Circles in the framework of the Research Area Energy and Environment

In the first edition of “E+E Diskurs” a discussion forum of the Research Field Energy + Environment, innovative energy projects were presented and topics such as raw material shortages, opportunities and risks of nuclear fusion, as well as prerequisites for innovations in Germany and Europe were discussed.