11 September 2020. On 11 September 2020, our online partner workshop for product category 2, ‘Green ammonia’, was held remotely via the web conferencing platform BigBlueButton. Following keynote speeches on global developments in the subject areas of green ammonia, catalysts for ammonia synthesis and the use of micro process technology for process intensification, the roughly…
In August, our joint project “Development of a concept for the emission-free operation of an inland waterway vessel with ammonia fuel” with the partners ZBT, DST, DNV, HOST, ISV, IKEM, Tamsen Maritim and Weiße Flotte, with a funding volume of € 1.2 million by BMBF WIR! started. The overall goal of the CF08 project line…
On 26 June 2020, we visited the ammonia bunker ship of our new partner, SPETRANS Schiffahrts– und Speditionskaufmann GmbH, a small shipping and freight forwarding company headquartered in Uetersen, Schleswig-Holstein. SPETRANS operates a special ship with the capacity to transport up to 150 tonnes of ammonia, which is used to treat exhaust gas at a…
The first functional test of the new INP magnetron sputtering reactor for the deposition of electroceramic thin films was carried out on 19 June 2020. In the reactor, a closed-field unbalanced magnetron sputtering technique can be used to deposit complex metal oxides with a perovskite structure (e.g. barium cerium zirconate) on the tubular substrates…
23. April 2020. The CAMPFIRE consortium was selected from a pool of 78 applicants to win the Horizon 2020 tender Emerging Paradigms and Communities: Breakthrough Zero-emissions Energy Generation for Full Decarbonization (Call FETPROACT-EIC-05–2019). In the HiPowAR project, which is financed by an EU grant of €4 million, consortium partners are collaborating with partners from Sweden,…
18 March and 8 April 2020. Our Third Advisory Board Meeting was a multi-day virtual event held in March and April. We were pleased to learn that three additional collaborative projects were recommended for funding in the product categories PK1 ‘Thin Films’ and PK3 ‘Zero-emission Maritime Propulsion Systems’. For the project Electroceramic Thin Films for…
27 February 2020. The partners for product category 1, ‘Electroceramic thin film’, held their first workshop of the implementation phase on 27 February 2020. Workshop guests included renowned scientists from all over Germany, including leading international experts in the fields of ceramic materials, membranes and catalysis. We would especially like to thank the following people…
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…