24 February 2020. A kick-off meeting for a new regional green ferry connection was organised by CAMPFIRE, the University of Greifswald and the Hanseatic City of Greifswald, and took place on 24 February 2020 at INP. The meeting brought together a range of stakeholders interested in establishing a zero-emission shipping connection between Greifswald’s Museum Harbour,…
Stralsund and Rostock, 9–10 December 2019. During a partner meeting to determine the next steps in the development of a green ammonia propulsion system for an inland vessel, we visited a number of sites, including the engine room of the Warnow ferry F‑Warnow (operated by Weiße Flotte GmbH) in Rostock. The industrial port and the…
Oldenburg, 15 January 2020. CAMPFIRE presented a paper on green ammonia as a future emission-free energy source for shipping on 15 January 2020 at the Zero Emission Shipping event. The event, which was held at the Competence Centre GreenShipping Lower Saxony in Oldenburg, was jointly organised by Competence Center partners MARIKO GmbH, the Maritime Cluster…
Greifswald, 6 November 2019. Dr Heiko Geue, head of the State Chancellery of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, visited us at the INP in Greifswald to discuss hydrogen technology, particularly in the context of CAMPFIRE and ammonia as a new energy carrier. We were very pleased to introduce Dr Geue to our partner alliance and exchange ideas about…
28 October 2019. At its second Advisory Board Meeting, our Advisory Board – which consists of nine experts from business, science and civil society – recommended four additional collaborative projects for funding. The project teams will start work in spring 2020: the SSAS-MEA project will develop membranes, electrodes and substrates for solid-state ammonia synthesis, an innovative…
Hamburg, 23.–24.10.2019. Auf dem International Hydrogen Symposium der IHK Nord präsentierten wir unser BMBF WIR! Bündnis CAMPFIRE zusammen mit den Partern sunfire GmbH und Neptun Ship Design GmbH auf einem Stand mit Informationsmaterial zum Campfire Innovationsfeld, ein Poster zur E‑Mobilität in der Schifffahrt und ein interaktives Display zu Power-to‑X Prozessen. Auf dem zweitägigen Symposium der…
Greifswald, 10 September 2019. There was a lively exchange of ideas at the first meeting of the CAMPFIRE Advisory Board, which was held on 10 September at the Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP) in Greifswald. The meeting brought together the members of the advisory board, representatives of the Federal Ministry of Education…
Coswig, 2 July 2019. On 2 July, we had the pleasure of presenting the CAMPFIRE project and ‘green ammonia’ at a joint event organised by the Verein Wissenschaft und Technik and the Interessengemeinschaft für Industrie und Gewerbe in Coswig. In the Giese Group administration building, located only a few kilometres from the Pieseritz chemical site,…
CAMPFIRE Sherpa Meeting at ENERTRAG AG in Dauerthal Dauerthal, 22 May 2019. The strategy team met to develop a joint project for the decentralised synthesis of green ammonia. Participants also used this opportunity to visit the world’s first hydrogen-wind-biogas hybrid power plant, which has been in operation since 2011. The ENERTRAG hybrid power plant consists…
CAMPFIRE will participate in three high-profile events this week. Greifswald, 26 April 2019. Next weekend, CAMPFIRE will participate in the programme for Renewable Energy Day, which is being held in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania for the fifth time. On Tuesday, CAMPFIRE project manager and INP scientist Dr Angela Kruth attended a press conference in Schwerin alongside Energy…