We would like to thank all CAMPFIRE partners and friends of our alliance for the great collaboration and support in 2024. We look forward to an innovative new year 2025 and the next steps together towards an emission-free future!
On November 24, CAMPFIRE presented at the Svenska Cimac Seminar“Ammonia and the maritime green transition”. The lecture entitled “Retrofit of an inland vessel with an ammonia propulsion system”, held by Friederike Dahlke-Wallat (DST), showed the conversion concept for the TMS ODIN. In particular, the concept of the new drive train and the necessary measures to…
Our CAMPFIRE information event at the Rhine ports in Karlsruhe was a successful event with lively participation by stakeholders from business, administration, politics and science. Ammonia as the green energy supply of the future for the Rhine ports and as a central energy vector for the accelerated market ramp-up of green hydrogen — this was…
CAMPFIRE and HiPowAR were presented by Drs Angela Kruth (INP) and Olga Ravkina (IKTS) at the Research and Innovation Working Group Workshop of the German Chemical Industry Association Northeast (VCI Nordost) at YARA Rostock. The meeting focused on the potential uses of ammonia for the energy transition and the decarbonization of the industry, with the…
A very intriguing location for the Ammonia Workshop of Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, organised by German Energy Agency (dena) at Fabrik 23 GmbH in a proper Berliner Hinterhof. More surprising the title though : „Ammonia as a Hydrogen Transport Vector — Vision Or Fiction“. To all of us who have been…
On 9th September, the „Ammonia Sherpa“ went onto her way to the 8th Rostock Large Engine Symposium. Leaving Greifswald-Wieck in the early morning, she headed via Stralsund to Rostock-Hohe Düne. The core technologies of future ammonia-powered ships could be visited on board: ammonia cracker system by Zentrum für BrennstoffzellenTechnik (ZBT) ammonia-and-hydrogen-operated ICE developed by DEUTZ…
A great project meeting at Fraunhofer IKTS in Hermsdorf of some members of the HiPowAR team, discussing the final reactor concept and timeline until implementation of the containerised reactor module in spring 2025. HiPowAR under the umbrella of the CAMPFIRE alliance is funded by Horizon 2020 FET Proactive — part of the Enhanced European Innovation…
A great workshop as part of the NAPS National Action Plan for Climate-Friendly Shipping, under the auspices of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action and the German Federal Ministry of Digital and Transport and excellently organized and supervised by NOW GmbH. We had very interesting discussions and the opportunity to put forward…
If more ships use green ammonia as an alternative fuel in the future, a corresponding bunker infrastructure must also be created. Ship-to-ship refueling is an option for the flexible supply of seagoing vessels. In the DST sub-project “CF10_2.1 Bunker barge”, a corresponding small bunker vessel was designed for the market ramp-up and tested on…
Ammonia is a reliable workhorse that can overcome many hurdles in the implementation of hydrogen. But how can we integrate ammonia into regional value chains and existing production processes? Our CAMPFIRE spokesperson Dr. Angela Kruth was able to discuss these questions together with Dr. Michael Poschmann from the TransHyDE research network AmmoRef at the digital…