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  • Breakthrough in electricity storage: New large and powerful redox flow battery

    The new redox-flow-battery

    More and more electricity is being generated from intermittent sources of power, such as solar and wind energy. Powerful electric energy storage devices are necessary to level out corresponding irregularities in the power supply. Fraunhofer scientists have recently made an important breakthrough with their development of a redox flow battery that reaches stack power up to 25 kW, with a cell size of 0.5 square meters. This is eight times larger than the previous A4-sized systems. They will be presenting the new battery for the first time at the Hannover Messe trade show (from April 8–12).

  • Andreas Hornung is a member of the board of the International Biochar Initiative IBI

    08.01.2013 - Effective January 1, 2013, Professor Dr. Andreas Hornung took over the management of the Institute Branch Sulzbach-Rosenberg of Fraunhofer UMSICHT. Professor Hornung, who is also the Director of the European Bioenergy Research Institute at Aston University in the UK, conducts research in biomass-based systems for energy conversion and storage, and now leads the institution in the Upper Palatinate which belongs to the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft since July 2012.

  • Professor Hornung is the new director of the Institute Branch Sulzbach-Rosenberg of Fraunhofer UMSICHT

    08.01.2013 - Effective January 1, 2013, Professor Dr. Andreas Hornung took over the management of the Institute Branch Sulzbach-Rosenberg of Fraunhofer UMSICHT. Professor Hornung, who is also the Director of the European Bioenergy Research Institute at Aston University in the UK, conducts research in biomass-based systems for energy conversion and storage, and now leads the institution in the Upper Palatinate which belongs to the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft since July 2012.

  • SPLASH – Sustainable Polymers from Algae Sugars and Hydrocarbons

    08.01.2013 - On 19-21 November 2012 the twenty partners involved in an EU funded research programme held their kick-off meeting in Wageningen, The Netherlands. Led by Wageningen UR Food & Biobased Research, the 4-year project has the goal to develop a new biobased industrial platform using microalgae as raw material for the sustainable production and recovery of hydrocarbons and (exo)polysaccharides from algae and their further conversion to renewable polymers. SPLASH will deliver knowledge, tools and technologies needed for the establishment of a new industry sector: Industrial Biotechnology based on algae and/or algal genes for the manufacture of polyesters and polyolefins.

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