News from MEP

'Turning Points in the Energy Transition: Setting the Course for the Next Decades' is the topic of this years Energy Colloquium on July 28th at Quantum, Garching-Hochbrück. Abstracts can be submitted until April 14th.

Can additive manufacturing reduce green hydrogen production costs? How to optimally utilize green hydrogen in chemical processes? Two new PhD candidates at APT have started working these questions in late 2021.

We used the soluble hydrogenase to recycle the oxidized cofactor NAD+ and drive the synthesis of keto acids form sugars. This highly oxidative biocatalytic pathway was performed without oxygen. This circumvented the need of bringing oxygen into aqueous systems, which is very challenging. Only green hydrogen was produced with no carbon based by-products. A manuscript is under preparation.

The Chair of Electrical Energy Storage Technology is looking for a research employee starting 1.4.2022 as part of a national project in which methods for the impedance analysis of lithium-ion batteries are being developed. Further information on the advertised position can be found here. The application deadline is 31.1.2022.

Stefan Oswald received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Physics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) before he started his PhD in 2018 with Prof. Hubert Gasteiger at the Chair of Technical Electrochemistry at TUM. In collaboration with BASF, Oswald researches cathode active materials for lithium-ion batteries. Oswald’s work centers on understanding morphology effects on the long-term performance of…


MEP Research News

Change in the half-cell open-circuit potential curves of silicon–graphite and nickel-rich lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxide during cycle aging / Julius Schmitt, Markus Schindler, Andreas Jossen

The Werner Siemens Chair of Synthetic Biotechnology (WSSB) is concerned with biotechnological processes for CO2 fixation and value-added conversion. In process development, synergies with thermochemical processes are actively identified and exploited.

About 15 partners of the TUM.Hydrogen and PtX network took part in the tour of the BioCORE test container at the Chair of Energy Systems on August 6. Despite the mixed weather, the tour of the high-temperature fuel cell plant for the highly efficient generation of electricity from biogas was a complete success. The appointment was probably the last opportunity to visit the test container at its…

Digital twins are the enabling technology for the "Energiewende" as they facilitate the transition from a centralized fossil-fuel based power generation to a decentralized and distributed renewable energy based power conversion. The Chair of Wind Energy takes part in the “e-TWINS” project representing the wind power generation among the diverse field of applicable technologies.

The Munich School of Engineering at the Technical University of Munich has published its annual report 2019/2020. It contains a lot of information about the TUM.Hydrogen and Power-to-X network.