As part of the research project open_BEA a workshop on the topic "Requirements for Battery Modeling of Stationary Storage" took place on April 15, 2019 at the Center for Energy and Information (ZEI) in Garching. The organizers, consisting of employees of the Reiner Lemoine Institute (RLI), of the Bavarian Center for Applied Energy Research e.V. (ZAE) and of the Institute of Electrical Energy… [read more]

Improvement of Li-ion Batteries through Electrolyte Development: from Liquid to Solid-State Electrolytes [read more]

With this year's topic "Shaping a Sustainable Energy Future", the 9th MSE Colloquium takes place on 01 August 2019, 8.30 am to 9.00 pm in the TUM-Quantum in Garching Hochbrück. The call for contributions to the 9th colloquium of the Munich School of Engineering is now open! [read more]

Eleven chairs and institutes of four TUM departements (Chemistry, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Physics) as well as the Research Neutron Source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz, FRMII present their research activities in the field of battery research on the new MSE website. More than 100 scientists work in this specific area - from basic research on materials in the natural… [read more]

As partner universities of the “EuroTech Universities” the research group “Bio Conversions” from the Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Department (DTU) and the research group “Energy-Efficient Wastewater Treatment” from Chair of Urban Water Systems Engineering (TUM) are initiating a new collaboration project on biogas upgrading in trickle bed reactors. The aim of the collaboration project is to… [read more]

Hydrogen from water electrolysis can be stored within the natural gas grid and provide a large energy storage capacity. Due to the specific combustion properties of hydrogen, however, engines and CHP fueled with natural gas are subject to investigations on the effects of hydrogen addition on their operating behavior. [read more]

Latest findings from the Kopernikus P2X project show that based on a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) the global warming potential of green hydrogen depends mainly on the generation technologies available for the electricity production. [read more]

Effect and Progress of the Amorphization Process for Microscale Silicon Particles under Partial Lithiation as Active Material in Lithium-Ion Batteries / Graf, M.; Berg, C.; Bernhard, R.; Haufe, S.; Pfeiffer, J.; Gasteiger, H. A. / J. Electrochem. Soc., 2022, 169, 020536 (Open Access) - DOI [read more]

In the course of the PtX Lab Talk series, Valentin Batteiger (Bauhaus Luftfahrt) provided insights on PtL fuels for aviation [read more]