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Navi­ga­ting toge­ther towards a green future. Season‘s gree­tings from CAMPFIRE & AmmonYak. 🎄 A big Thank You to all part­ners and friends of the CAMPFIRE alli­ance for your outstan­ding support over the past year. We are very proud of the great success that has been achieved — through strong part­ner­ships and incre­dible work. Lets get ready…

The title for this year’s CAMPFIRE Sympo­sium was “Green Ammonia as Key to Decar­bo­niza­tion and Prospe­rity in Europe: From Import Vector to Resi­lient Energy Storage,” held at the Repre­sen­ta­tion of the State of Meck­­len­­burg-Western Pome­rania to the Federal Govern­ment in Berlin. The event was mode­rated by Ulrich Walter, with a welcome address from our host…

Within the CAMPFIRE network, an inter­di­sci­pli­nary consor­tium is deve­lo­ping a propul­sion concept for inland waterway vessels based on ammonia as part of the CF08_2 rese­arch project: “NH3 Ship Engine.” The propul­sion system consists of a high-speed combus­tion engine powered by ammonia, which drives a gene­rator. To improve igni­tion and the effi­cient conver­sion of ammonia in…

We were cele­bra­ting the opening of the Ammonia-to-Power & Power-to-Ammonia test fields that were deve­loped by the CAMPFIRE part­ners over the past four years within the frame of the flag­ship project Trans­HyDE. This is the start of a green ammonia insti­tute joint venture in the metropol region GREATER ROSTOCK that is imple­mented in Poppen­dorf as…

ery proud of our part­ners of the CAMPFIRE CF08_2 consor­tium who reached an important mile­stone in the deve­lo­p­ment of a simu­la­tion model for the utiliza­tion of an ammonia-powered hybrid drive based on an ammonia cracker-ICE and battery system, for a typical inland waterway ship­ping route of our func­tional model „Odin“ of Spetrans GmbH to be…

Our speaker had the great honour to present the CAMPFIRE partner alli­ance and the CAMPFIRE EU project HiPowAR at the DARE2X industry and inno­va­tion confe­rence with the title: „What can Brussels do for Green Ammonia: EU industry, policy & regu­la­tions.“ This ques­tion was inten­si­vely discussed. There was one clear outcome: ammonia tech­no­lo­gies are advanced and…

The CAMPFIRE project CF10_4 aims to develop a plant for produ­cing ultra­pure hydrogen for refue­ling from a supply of green ammonia. NH3 crackers typi­cally produce a mixture of H2 and N2 that still contains traces of NH3. In order to use the hydrogen in fuel cells, it is, however, neces­sary to remove the nitrogen and…

CAMPFIRE spokes­woman Dr. Angela Kruth and CAMPFIRE partner Maik Bäumer, Inherent Solu­tion Consult (ISC) were able to take part in a great busi­ness trip from MV to the city of Esbjerg — orga­nized by Rostock Chamber of Industry and Commerce and Busi­ness Esbjerg and led by our State Secre­tary in the Ministry of Economic Affairs,…

A legal frame­work and insu­ra­bi­lity are urgent prere­qui­sites to enable the market intro­duc­tion of green ammonia as a fuel and elastic energy storage. This fanta­stic paper by CAMPFIRE part­ners Judith Schäfer-Gend­risch and Frie­de­rike Allolio from IKEM — Insti­tute for Climate Protec­tion, Energy and Mobi­lity and Juryk Henrichs from DNV discusses issues of liabi­lity in the…

Our CAMPFIRE partner work­shop took place this year in Potsdam at the beau­tiful Lake Templin. Two very exci­ting days during which our part­ners explored current deve­lo­p­ments in the field of green ammonia and deve­loped new paths for the CAMPFIRE roadmap. Topics included the decen­tra­lized produc­tion of ammonia inclu­ding the coupling with water desa­li­na­tion and solar…

Comple­tion of the forma­tion audit and appli­ca­tion for entry in the trade register at Rostock High Court — an important mile­stone for CAMPFIRE AG has been reached. The board members Jens Wart­mann and Dr. Angela Kruth would like to thank the super­vi­sory board Gunnar Flem­ming, Mike Hall­mann and Dr. Matthias Boltze as well as the…

An important mile­stone for our project: 300 membranes were successfully produced by our partner Fraun­hofer IKTS in Herms­dorf for the membrane reactor for the self-compres­­­sing combus­tion of ammonia! Thanks to the inno­va­tive reactor design of our partner Maston AB, the membrane inserts can be changed quickly for flexible testing of diffe­rent membrane geome­tries. In total,…

Just Published — the Trans­HyDE White Paper of the CAMPFIRE and AmmoRef consortia! : „Ammonia as Fuel and Energy Storage for Decar­bo­ni­sa­tion of the Energy System“. Green ammonia is feasible and safe. It is our key to decar­bo­ni­sa­tion and energy tran­si­tion, economic growth, secu­rity and justice. We are very proud of this fanta­stic achie­ve­ment by…

What an amazing time our CAMPFIRE partner Anna­lena Braun (KIT), Prof. Hinrich Mohr (GKE) und Torsten Baufeld (Lieb­herr) had at the CIMAC 2025 in Zürich! We are very proud of Anna­lena Braun from Karls­ruher Institut für Tech­no­logie (KIT) who gave a bril­liant talk on the Ammonia-fueled Cracker-Engine Unit as a Propul­sion System for Inland Water…

What will we rely on in the future: carbon capture, green hydrogen or green ammonia? At the ThEEN Congress “Trans­for­ma­tion Tech­no­lo­gies” on May 12, 2025 in Erfurt, a total of 12 experts provided answers in four sessions. CAMPFIRE spokesperson Angela Kruth, toge­ther with Prof. Dr. Ingolf Voigt Fraun­hofer IKTS and Jan Domhardt, thys­sen­krupp nucera, led…

A very sunny and well-attended Ener­gieTag MV yesterday on the beau­tiful Anklam market square in Vorpom­mern. Orga­nized by Torsten Peters of Hanse­stadt Anklam, opened by Mayor Michael Gallander and excel­lently mode­rated by Dr Robert Brandt and Anika Schwalbe from the Agency for Rene­wable Ener­gies (AEE), around 20 compa­nies and asso­cia­tions presented their acti­vi­ties for the…

Under the leader­ship of Germany Trade & Invest, key stake­hol­ders from the German region of Rostock explored Spain’s world-class exper­tise in Barce­lona, Madrid, Málaga and Valencia. Enga­ge­ments with key govern­ment bodies (Minis­terio para la Tran­si­ción Ecoló­gica y el Reto Demo­grá­fico, ACUAMED, Aguas de las Cuencas Medi­ter­rá­neas, S.A.), opera­tors (ATL, Aqualia, GS Inima Envi­ron­ment), asso­cia­tions (AEDyR),…

At our HiPowAR project meeting at Fraun­hofer IKTS in Herms­dorf, the team reported great progress in the imple­men­ta­tion of the membrane reactor for the pres­sur­e­less combus­tion of ammonia. Using 300 tubular perovs­kite membranes, up to 50 bar oxygen is intro­duced into the fuel for an effi­cient self-compres­­­sing combus­tion process. In a future step, which will…

An excel­lent work of our CAMPFIRE partner IKEM — Insti­tute for Climate Protec­tion, Energy and Mobi­lity on the accep­tance of green ammonia as energy storage and fuel and an effec­tive future commu­ni­ca­tion stra­tegy as a decisive factor for the success of the energy tran­si­tion. A special focus of the study is on the Rostock Port…

We are very proud that CAMPFIRE was able to parti­ci­pate in the MV Panel Green Hydrogen on the stage of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. Toge­ther with Paul West­phal, Digi­tales Inno­va­ti­ons­zenrtum Rostock, Anja Munser, Die Rosto­cker Wasser­stoff­initia­tive, Dr. Peter Spon­holz, H2APEX and Arne Birth, elemen­tarhy, our Head of Stra­tegy & Tech­no­logy CAMPFIRE…

The Rostock Hydrogen Confe­rence — an exci­ting exch­ange with our regional hydrogen stake­hol­ders in a great atmo­sphere. The focus was on crea­tion of hydrogen-based value chains in the Rostock region, inclu­ding the possi­bi­li­ties of hydrogen produc­tion from ammonia and natural gas in the port of Rostock.Thank you for allo­wing us to be part of it…

„Ammonia gets out and about“ — this was the Motto of the DARE2X Work­shop on decen­tra­lised green ammonia produc­tion and utiliza­tion at Tekno­lo­gisk Institut in Taastrup, Denmark. It was great to take a deep dive into the inspi­ring atmo­sphere of our Euro­pean ammonia family. we feel hono­ured that we could present the CAMPFIRE Alli­ance and…

A great Trans­HyDE final confe­rence at Futu­rium Berlin. Exci­ting panel discus­sions, pitches and presen­ta­tions on solu­tions for hydrogen trans­por­ta­tion chains. Our CAMPFIRE project teams took part with four presen­ta­tions and nine posters on ammonia tech­no­logy deve­lo­p­ment, regu­la­tory frame­work and accep­tance! Further high­lights of our part­ners were the “Moni B” — a model for a seaworthy…

A lot of wind under our wings after the 18th meeting of the CAMPFIRE Advi­sory Board at a pioneer of fossil-free energy supply and CAMPFIRE foun­ding partner ENERTRAG in Dauer­thal in the beau­tiful Ucker­mark region. The focus of the meeting was on the conti­nua­tion of the stra­tegic roadmap of our partner alli­ance through the industrial…

A highly inte­res­ting study on the legal frame­work for the decen­tra­lized produc­tion of green ammonia by the CAMPFIRE partner IKEM within the CF06_6 Micros­truc­tured Haber-Bosch Hybrid Reactor. Further part­ners are ENERTRAG, ZBT, GESMEX Exch­an­gers GmbH, KIT and INP. You can read more about the study here.

The Berlin Energy Round Table began with a presen­ta­tion by IKEM Mana­ging Director Judith Schäfer-Gend­risch. As part of CAMPFIRE, IKEM is rese­ar­ching the legal frame­work for the produc­tion of ammonia and its use as an energy source for emis­­­sion-free ship­ping. In her presen­ta­tion, Judith presented the perspec­tive on the fuel of the future and findings…

Jens Wart­mann, CAMPFIRE Head of Tech­no­logy & Stra­tegy, presented his talk at the Hydrogen Solu­tions Forum at the E‑world on the key role of green ammonia for the ramp-up of a hydrogen economy, inclu­ding a bril­liant contri­bu­tion from CAMPFIRE partner Frie­de­rike Dahlke-Wallat, DST, with regard to ammonia supply by means of inland water ship­ping. We…

We are very pleased that our CAMPFIRE spokes­woman Angela Kruth was invited to parti­ci­pate in the Blue Inno­va­tion Dock Panel “Next-Gene­ra­­tion Power-Inno­­va­­tions driving sustain­ably” of the Boot 2025 in Düssel­dorf. Toge­ther with Maria Bouillet, Bouillet Energy, Erwan Faou­cher, Bene­teau Group, Harald Kuhnke, Polucharge, and Chris­tian Schneider, German Motor Yacht Asso­cia­tion, she discussed ground-brea­king inno­va­tions for…

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…

A great HAZID Work­shop CAMPFIRE Green­Bal­tic­Crui­sing at DNV in Hamburg! Just spent two days iden­ti­fying possible hazards and discus­sing safety measures during opera­tion and bunke­ring as part of our study of feasi­bi­lity of ammonia-powered sustainable cruise liners carried out by a great team of part­ners Carnival Mari­time GmbH, DNV Fore­ship Ltd. ROSTOCK PORT Zentrum für…

The CAMPFIRE PK1 Work­shop 2024 was dedi­cated to the topic of “Mate­rials and manu­fac­tu­ring processes for ammonia synthesis and hydrogen tech­no­lo­gies”. Around 30 parti­ci­pants gathered at Wismar Univer­sity of Applied Sciences for keynote spee­ches and a world café mode­rated by Dr. Annette Surkus (LIKAT) and Robin von Mallinck­rodt (ZBT). Parti­cular high­lights were presen­ta­tions by our…

A sunny and exci­ting morning in the marina of Yacht­werft Greifs­wald with around 30 guests of the German-Polish busi­ness trip as part of a great event orga­nized by the infor­ma­tion and advi­sory network of the Euro­re­gion Pome­rania and the district of Vorpom­­mern-Greifs­­wald. We have so much in common with our Polish neigh­bors — the location…

Wasser­­stoff-Leit­­pro­­jekt TransHyDE

A very produc­tive and inte­res­ting day for CAMPFIRE at the kick-off event for the National Action Plan for Climate-Friendly Ship­ping at the Federal Ministry for Digital and Trans­port, orga­nized by NOW GmbH. After an opening by Federal Minister Volker Wissing and State Secre­tary Udo Philipp from the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protec­tion, the…

Bril­liant presen­ta­tion by our CAMPFIRE partner Anna­lena Braun of Karls­ruher Institut für Tech­no­logie (KIT) at the 13th Dessauer Gas-Motoren Konfe­renz, orga­nised by WTZ Roßlau . Anna­lena presented her outstan­ding results on deve­lo­p­ment of an ammonia powered cracker-supported marine drive for inland water way ship­ping. For further details on the project and part­ners please also visit…

CAMPFIRE Green Ammonia Tech­no­lo­gies for Brazil! We had a very exci­ting time at the Brazi­lian Northeast: Green Industry & Energy Tran­si­tion Oppor­tu­ni­ties event at the Mariott Hotel in Berlin last week. Strong part­ner­ships are the key for decar­bo­ni­sa­tion of the global energy market and supply chains. Future coope­ra­tions will be in inno­va­tions and roll-out of…

We had a very nice and produc­tive time at the Trans­HyDE plenary meeting in Erfurt! The posi­tive vibe and part­ner­ship in the exch­ange and brain­stor­ming for the next phase from 2026 were remar­kable. They are a sign of how much the part­ners have grown toge­ther in the phase so far to work toge­ther for the…

A sunny day of rene­wable energy in Anklam! Toge­ther with our sister alli­ance as part of the WIR! Change through Inno­va­tion program line of the Federal Ministry of Educa­tion and Rese­arch BiogeniV www.biogeniv.de, we spent a great and inte­res­ting day on the market square of the old handi­craft town. Sustainable struc­tural change in struc­tu­rally weak…

Small projects usually have a limited scope. Our „small“ project CF07_1 demons­trates the core tech­no­lo­gies of a complete ammonia mari­time drive — hybri­dised ammonia SOFC, cracker and combus­tion engine — inclu­ding control and safety systems. Work on our ammonia-powered yacht was kicked off less than three years ago by nine CAMPFIRE Part­ners. Their incre­dibly hard…

The new subpro­ject CF06_6 “Micros­truc­tured process-inten­­­si­­­fied Haber-Bosch reactor” started on January 1st, 2024. The produc­tion of ammonia from rene­wable ener­gies is one of the main tasks of the CAMPFIRE alli­ance. The aim of this sub-project is to expand and opti­mize a reactor concept for the synthesis of ammonia.  The power density of the Haber-Bosch reactor will…

Pulling toge­ther for a greener tomorrow — wishing you a joyful holiday and an inno­va­tive New Year! Seasons Gree­ting from the AmmonYak & CAMPFIRE

Zukunft Gas provides infor­ma­tion with exci­ting events and digital formats on the topics of green gas, hydrogen, the heating market, infra­struc­ture, mobi­lity and logi­stics. Jens Wart­mann, Head of Stra­tegy and Tech­no­logy at CAMPFIRE, joined Eric Zindel (Siemens Energy) and Peter Stein­müller (Mainova) at Energie Studio Berlin for an exci­ting exch­ange on the current status of…

In order to speed up the decar­bo­niza­tion of ship­ping, the CF08_2 project is deve­lo­ping an ammonia-powered, contai­ne­rized inland vessel propul­sion system with 350 kW propul­sion power and evalua­ting it ” on-land”. Figure 1 shows a sche­matic repre­sen­ta­tion of the propul­sion system. To improve the igni­tion and effi­cient conver­sion of the ammonia in the engine, a…

Within the frame of the CAMPFIRE project CF09 Green­Bal­tic­Crui­sing, our partner IKEM has published two further papers dealing with the legal frame­work for decar­bo­ni­zing ship­ping and the use of ammonia in the Baltic Sea. “Clean alter­na­tives are not compe­ti­tive under the current regu­la­tory frame­work and in the face of continued low carbon prices. As part…

We are very grateful for the oppor­tu­nity for our partner alli­ance to parti­ci­pate in the regional confe­rence “Nach­haltig. Regional. at the Digital Inno­va­tion Center Rostock GmbH. In a great panel toge­ther with Tom Rück­born (Wind­Energy Network e.V.), Dorian Holtz (Theta Concepts GmbH) and Peter Spon­holz (APEX Group), superbly mode­rated by Martin French (Wirt­schafts­för­de­rung Land­kreis Rostock…

  The market ramp-up of hydrogen opens up many new oppor­tu­ni­ties — for old and new indus­trial sites. The demand is enormous and the new value chains will change our world.   The H2Brasil project supports the growth of green hydrogen in Brazil and aims to improve the tech­nical, insti­tu­tional and legal condi­tions for its viability.…

Great presen­ta­tion by CAMPFIRE partner Martin Stolt­mann TAMSEN MARITIM GmbH on a bril­liant tech­nical solu­tion for inte­gra­tion of an ammonia cracker — ICE mari­time drives into inland cargo vessels. This project is part of the CAMPFIRE project line Ammonia-powered Inland Vessel aiming at the conver­sion of an inland ammonia bunke­ring ship “Odin” of Spetrans GmbH…

Part­ners of the CF08_2 consor­tium for deve­lo­p­ment of an ammonia-Cracker-350 kW ICE Genset for inland ship­ping could book a great success by publi­shing an article in the current issue of LNG & Future Fuel Report  by Schiff & Hafen. Bril­liant effort by Anna­lena Braun and Sören Berhardt at Karls­ruher Institut für Tech­no­logie (KIT), Lieb­herr Components…

It was a great plea­sure for Angela Kruth from CAMPFIRE to mode­rate this impres­sive panel on green ammonia. Ann-Kathrin Merz (First Ammonia), Ashwani Dudeja (ACME Group), Elli Varka­raki (Yara Inter­na­tional), Paolo Brunengo (KBR) and Paul Cox (Proton Ventures). Our main message was that Ammonia is a safe fuel and a cost-effi­cient way to store and…

The trans­port chain for green ammonia via sea starts and ends with a terminal in each case. Termi­nals ther­e­fore repre­sent land-based coll­ec­tion or distri­bu­tion hubs. As a result, they have a very signi­fi­cant infra­struc­tural func­tion. Due to this importance, the CAMPFIRE project CF10_3 onshore ammonia refue­ling plant with part­ners Univer­sity Rostock, ZBT, ISC and INP…

Ammonia is considered to be one of the most econo­mical energy carriers in terms of storage and trans­port when it comes to buil­ding the Germany-wide hydrogen infra­struc­ture. In order to fully exploit the poten­tial of NH3 at this point, however, consis­tent deve­lo­p­ment of dynamic conver­sion tech­no­lo­gies for statio­nary and mobile appli­ca­tions is required. In commercially…

Our CAMPFIRE speaker was thrilled to be part of the Green Hydrogen Busi­ness Alli­ance Panel on “The Poten­tial of Green Ammonia in Deve­lo­ping and Emer­ging Count­ries”.  Toge­ther with amazing Jane Leung from SYSTEMIQ LtD, Andrea Guati Rojo from Ammonia Energy Asso­cia­tion, Jak Koseff from Sasol,  Gregorz Pawelec from Hydrogen Europe and Farhanja Wahabzada from GIZ,…

Under the motto “Acce­le­ra­ting Euro­pe’s hydrogen economy now: joint forces for energy auto­nomy and CO2 neutra­lity”, the H2 Forum brought toge­ther the entire green hydrogen value chain. Energy suppliers, auto­mo­tive and indus­trial compa­nies, tech­no­logy manu­fac­tu­rers and rese­arch insti­tu­tions discussed ideas on how to make the tran­si­tion to a green hydrogen economy in Europe. Toge­ther with…

A great oppor­tu­nity to get to know the CAMPFIRE partner alli­ance was offered to visi­tors of the CAMPFIRE Amphi­theater at the Long Night of Know­ledge. We got into conver­sa­tion with visi­tors to the booth about the many bene­fits of ammonia for the future carbon-free energy economy and presented our field of work, projects and partners.…

On this day, ever­y­thing revolves around rene­wable ener­gies and sustainable living with campaigns throug­hout Germany. Again in super tandem team with our partner ENERTRAG, we presented topics around wind and solar energy and their storage in ammonia at the Greifs­wald market­place. The energy tran­si­tion can be sustainable and econo­mical and also offer reliable solu­tions for…

We are still so very chuffed about an invi­ta­tion by the Mari­time Direc­tors to the Ammonia Energy Asso­cia­tion, Sofia and Conor Fürs­ten­berg Stott to present at the Mari­time Ammonia Insights webinar. This is a great monthly webinar series for the AEA and extended networks, explo­ring current deve­lo­p­ments in progres­sing ammonia as a mari­time fuel, with…

After the part­ners of the PC3 met and exch­anged on the topic of ammonia ships online in 2021, we were able to hold an excel­lent work­shop in wonderful Duis­burg this year! The host was the ZBT The Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Centre — not only the main tech­no­logy provider in our alli­ance, but also responsible…

On March 31, 2023, IKEM hosted an inter­di­sci­pli­nary online work­shop on the decar­bo­niza­tion of Baltic ship­ping and the use of alter­na­tive fuels in the Baltic Sea region with experts from science and prac­tice. The discus­sion focused in parti­cular on the legal options for estab­li­shing ammonia as a mari­time fuel in the region. Further details on…

The subpro­ject CF08_2 will realize the demons­tra­tion of the propul­sion system for an inland waterway vessel, which is operated with ammonia as fuel. For stable igni­tion of the ammonia-air-mixture in the engine, as a novelty in this project, a partial stream of the ammonia is passed over a cracker before the engine, where it is…

In a two-day work­shop by CAMPFIRE partner Port Rostock, the part­ners of the CAMPFIRE projects CF09 Green­Bal­tic­Crui­sing and CF10 Flexible Refue­ling System were discus­sing funda­mental and specific aspects of a safety concept for ammonia bunke­ring at Port Rostock. Diffe­rent ship-to-ship, shore-to-ship and truck-to-ship scena­rios for a cruise ship, a Baltic Sea ferry and a cement…

Two exci­ting days for all part­ners of our CAMPFIRE imple­men­ta­tion project in the BMBF flag­ship Trans­HyDE! Prof. Hinrich Mohr, GKE — GasKraft Engi­nee­ring, and Klaas Büsen, Wismar Univer­sity of Applied Sciences, Insti­tute for Inno­va­tive Ship Simu­la­tion and Mari­time Systems (ISSIMS), Depart­ment of Mari­time Plant Engi­nee­ring and Logi­stics, repre­sented the project teams of the CAMPFIRE project…

Wishing you a happy holiday season and a successful new year! Festive gree­tings from the AmmonYak & CAMPFIRE

As part of the 14th Trila­teral Wadden Sea Confe­rence, where repre­sen­ta­tives of federal and state autho­ri­ties from the Nether­lands, Denmark and Germany discussed further action to protect the Wadden Sea, an exci­ting side event on the WATT­fos­sil­frei project took place at the Logen­haus Wilhelms­haven. Various suppliers of fossil-free propul­sion concepts such as Torqeedo and GPJoule…

Our this year’s partner work­shop of the product cate­gory 2 gene­ra­tion of green ammonia took place in the new schoo­ling room of the indus­trial park of YARA GmbH & Co KG in Poppen­dorf . Discus­sions of the appro­xi­m­ately 30 parti­ci­pants mode­rated by Prof. Udo Kragl, Insti­tute of Chemistry at Univer­sity of Rostock, and Dr. Walther…

The focus of the Harbour-Work­­shop was the issue of trans­port as a decisive factor for the rapid ramp-up of the green hydrogen economy in Europe and world­wide. In addi­tion to pipe­lines, ports in parti­cular play a crucial role. Possible obsta­cles along this path must be iden­ti­fied and these must be trans­lated into rese­arch ques­tions that…

CAMPFIRE at the The Euro­pean Hydrogen Week – a fanta­stic event joining industry, poli­cy­ma­kers, rese­ar­chers and the public to shape the poten­tial for clean hydrogen tech­no­lo­gies and discuss latest deve­lo­p­ments. The Euro­pean Hydrogen Week 2022 was co-orga­­­nised by the Clean Hydrogen Part­ner­ship and its members, the Euro­pean Commis­sion, Hydrogen Europe, and Hydrogen Europe Rese­arch. Our…

On October 21, 2022, around 120 national and inter­na­tional stake­hol­ders from busi­ness, poli­tics and rese­arch met for the CAMPFIRE Sympo­sium 2022 at the Ozea­neum Stral­sund. Under the motto “Green Ammonia Tech­no­lo­gies for Energy Secu­rity, Climate Protec­tion and Economic Growth”, compa­nies presented their plans for new appli­ca­tions and imple­men­ta­tion concepts. The event kicked off with the…

In the run-up to the sympo­sium, the CAMPFIRE advi­sory board met in Stral­sund to review a further outline toge­ther with the stra­tegy team and repre­sen­ta­tives of the project execu­ting orga­niza­tion Jülich and to open the way to imple­men­ta­tion for project CF09_2 “Deve­lo­p­ment and testing of 1500 W SOFC stack modules for direct ammonia opera­tion for…

At the f‑cell in Stutt­gart, CAMPFIRE was allowed to contri­bute to the session “Hydrogen-Carrier: LOHC, Ammonia and Methanol — Current findings on the methods for storing and trans­porting hydrogen”. The f‑cell in is an impulse event on the topics of hydrogen and fuel cells and their appli­ca­tion. Mode­rated by Prof. Dr. Karsten Pink­wart from the…

In a full-day meeting, the CAMPFIRE Advi­sory Board, repre­sen­ta­tives of Project Manage­ment Jülich and members of the CAMPFIRE Stra­tegy Team discussed new outlines of the Alli­ance in the product cate­gory “Emis­­­sion-free Mari­time Mobi­lity”. These were presented by the respec­tive project teams: CF07_2 “Ammo­Cruiser” — func­tional proto­type of a minia­tu­rized ammonia power system for green yachting”…

Spee­ding up the decar­bo­niza­tion of ship­ping! — this was the topic of the third LEC Sustainable Ship­ping Tech­no­lo­gies Forum (LSSTF) orga­nized by CAMPFIRE partner LEC GmbH in Graz. Nume­rous inter­na­tional spea­kers discussed around the main topic “Green Ports and Infra­struc­ture”. Our partner Prof. Hinrich Mohr from GasKraft Engi­nee­ring presented the CAMPFIRE — Project Line CF08…

Sun and wind at the busi­ness meeting of the Hanseatic City of Rostock! Here, after a recep­tion at Tamsen Maritim GmbH the evening before, around 300 repre­sen­ta­tives from busi­ness, culture and poli­tics met for a networ­king recep­tion in the Rostock City Hall. In a panel discus­sion mode­rated by our Minister of Economy, Infra­struc­ture, Tourism and…

Decar­bo­ni­zing the Impos­sible! Fanta­stic days at up north at the Demo North summit. We are so grateful to Mox Murugan and his colle­guages at Invest in Norr­botton. We met such an amazing group of busi­nesses, inves­tors and inno­va­tors as well as poli­ti­cians forming a strong task force to speed up decar­bo­ni­sa­tion. The global climate crisis…

In addi­tion to the future import of the hydrogen carrier ammonia, decen­tra­lized ammonia plants are needed that can effi­ci­ently produce green ammonia from fluc­tua­ting rene­wable energy on a small to medium scale. In the future, ammonia farms can cover peak loads and achieve economic opera­tion at an inter­me­diate number of full-load hours of use. In…

Fellow knowers wanted! Ammonia is a fanta­stic energy storage and carbon-free fuel, but most people know it more as a chemical feedstock for ferti­lizer produc­tion and the buil­ding mate­rials industry. At the Long Night of Know­ledge 2022 orga­nized by Sphinx ET Agency for Zeit­geist Deve­lo­p­ment, a task force on popu­la­tion accep­tance of green ammonia was…

In a first face-to-face event in 2022 at the Estrel Berlin, the CAMPFIRE Advi­sory Board and repre­sen­ta­tives of the Project Manage­ment Jülich met with members of the Stra­tegy Team. The exch­ange focused on the incre­asing entre­pre­neu­rial focus of the Alli­ance in the second phase of imple­men­ta­tion with corner­stones CAMPFIRE Open Inno­va­tion Labs in Poppen­dorf and…

In March, the CAMPFIRE alli­ance of the North-East region successfully completed the interim evalua­tion by a jury of experts as part of the BMBF program “WIR!-Change through Inno­va­tion in the Region. A further budget of 6 million euros was made available to the part­ners for this purpose. This means that CAMPFIRE tech­no­logy deve­lo­p­ment and an…

Within the CAMPFIRE project, an elec­tro­lyzer and an ammonia synthesis plant, each supplied with rene­wable energy from wind energy and solar plants, are to be cons­tructed. Against this back­ground, IKEM analyzes the legal requi­re­ments for this plant combi­na­tion in a newly published study within the subpro­ject CF06_2.4 and examines whether privi­leges or even exemp­tions from…

During an online event, the CAMPFIRE advi­sory board, repre­sen­ta­tives of the BMBF and PtJ, and members of the stra­tegy team met to discuss the status of plans for the CAMPFIRE Open Inno­va­tion Lab on the indus­trial site of YARA Rostock at the Poppen­dorf loca­tion. The focus was also on the start-up and sett­le­ment poten­tial in…

In an online session, CAMPFIRE was allowed to present the Extended Concept for the next phase of imple­men­ta­tion to the BMBF WIR! reviewers as well as to repre­sen­ta­tives of the BMBF and PtJ, and to answer the panel’s ques­tions on the interim status on the way to imple­men­ting the inno­va­tive pathways as well as on…

Our now third partner work­shop in the product cate­gory “Emis­­sion-free Martime Drives”, focused on the one hand on inno­va­tive drive concepts and further on the regu­la­tory frame­work and safety aspects for ammonia. Very inspi­ring was the kick-off contri­bu­tion of Peter de Vos, TU Delft, Nether­lands, on SOFC-ICE combined hybrid systems for use as the future…

After intense weeks, many late nights and increased coffee consump­tion, we have completed our extended CAMPFIRE concept and submitted it to the project sponsor. The stra­tegic deve­lo­p­ment of the Alli­ance and the roadmap for the next phase is a result of the tire­less work and high enga­ge­ment of the part­ners during the project meetings, strategy…

The CAMPFIRE advi­sory board met in a web meeting on October 25. The focus was on the draft concept for the extended imple­men­ta­tion phase in the WIR! program of the BMBF, the further deve­loped stra­tegic orien­ta­tion of the alli­ance and an exch­ange on the outlined projects. In parti­cular, the roadmap for the conti­nua­tion of the…

As an in-person all-day event around Green Ammonia, our sympo­sium on September 30, 2021 was a great plea­sure and inspi­ra­tion for all part­ners and friends of the CAMPFIRE Alli­ance. Special high­lights were our inter­na­tional guests from the Nether­lands, nort­hern Sweden, and Denmark, as well as the real-life exhi­bi­tion of a hydrogen refue­ling faci­lity and the…

Wind and Water to Ammonia – Mari­time Fuel and Energy Storage for a Zero-Emis­­­sion Future In-Person Sympo­sium and Ammonia Bunke­ring Ship Exhi­bi­tion An all day event dedi­cated to green ammonia as carbon free hydrogen Thursday, 30th September 2021, 10am-3pm

On August 26, our first CAMPFIRE stake­holder confe­rence took place in the trai­ning room of YARA GmbH & Co KG. The aim of the event, to which the CAMPFIRE part­ners invited nume­rous stake­hol­ders from state poli­tics, was to present the acti­vi­ties of the CAMPFIRE Alli­ance of the North-East Region with deve­lo­p­ment lines and goals, as…

In April, our second joint project in the product cate­gory PK1 CF05_1 “Deve­lo­p­ment of an auto­thermal, quick-start ammonia membrane reactor based on mixed-conduc­­­ting thin-film oxygen membranes for opti­mised proces­sing of ammonia as a carbon-free mari­time fuel” started and is funded with ca. 1.2 million € by BMBF WIR over a project dura­tion of 24 months.…

In June, the kick-off meeting of the CAMPFIRE joint project CF07 “Deve­lo­p­ment of the func­tional model of an ammonia-powered sport yacht with a hybrid system consis­ting of a solid oxide fuel cell and an engine” of the part­ners Hanse­Yachts, sunfire, ISC, FVTR, ZBT, IKEM, YARA, auto­soft and INP took place.  The project is funded with…

The three hydrogen lead projects are a central contri­bu­tion of the Federal Ministry of Educa­tion and Rese­arch (BMBF) to the imple­men­ta­tion of the National Hydrogen Stra­tegy. Taken toge­ther, they repre­sent the largest funding initia­tive of the Federal Ministry of Educa­tion and Rese­arch on the subject of the energy tran­si­tion and provide a decisive impetus for…

On 14 July, we were pleased to spend a very exci­ting day with the team around Jörg Pfeifer — for a small contri­bu­tion in the programme Umschau on sailing trans­port. Jörg Pfeifer is a reporter and coffee fan and travelled for 2 months as part of the crew of the two-masted scho­oner “Avon­tuur” — a…

On 9 July, our online partner work­shop PK2 “Synthesis of Green Ammonia” took place, also in the form of a web event due to the pandemic rest­ric­tions. First, a report was given on the status of the colla­bo­ra­tive projects running in the WIR programme — CF06_1 “Deve­lo­p­ment of a decen­tra­lised produc­tion tech­no­logy for green ammonia…