Contact

H2IntraDrive – Testing Industrial Fuel Cell Trucks

H2IntraDrive – Testing Industrial Fuel Cell Trucks

Linde-MH_Leipzig_Refueling

Quick H2 refill, © Linde MH

The presentation of the results of the H2IntraDrive project was not a sales event or press conference – it was both. On Nov. 23, 2015, the project partners as well as representatives of prospective new partners and some reporters gathered in the BMW factory in Leipzig to take a look at the results of two years of development. The important thing to take away from the event was: (more…)

Advertisements
OWI Undergoes Restructuring

OWI Undergoes Restructuring

David Diarra

David Diarra, © OWI

OWI Oel-Waerme-Institut underwent business restructuring at the end of 2015: Since Nov. 17, 2015, the RWTH Aachen affiliate has had a new parent company in Tec4Fuels. The new and sole head of the business venture is David Diarra. The engineer has been a long-time employee of OWI and had shared management of the company with Dr. Klaus Lucka until last October. Lucka had been OWI’s CEO for 15 years and is now a managing partner of Tec4Fuels. The other partner of Tec4Fuels is the Institute for Heating and Oil Technology. (more…)

Advertisements
Simplified Production Method for PEM Fuel Cells

Simplified Production Method for PEM Fuel Cells

MPL-GDLThe heart of PEM fuel cells is the membrane electrode assembly (MEA), which has so far been produced by using only polymer electrolyte membranes. The manufacture of these membranes, however, is highly complex and expensive, limiting MEA production to a few companies around the globe. An innovative method discovered by researchers from the Department of Microsystems Technology (IMTEK) at the University of Freiburg makes the membrane process technology obsolete (more…)

Alexandra Ernst is Newest Member of DVGW Team

Alexandra Ernst is Newest Member of DVGW Team

Alexandra-Ernst-DVGW

Alexandra Ernst,
© DVGW

On Oct. 1, 2015, Alexandra Ernst became the CFO of the German Technical and Scientific Association for Gas and Water (DVGW). The association’s executive board had decided in a special session in Bonn on creating this new post, making the economist born in Recklinghausen the second salaried executive besides Professor Dr. Gerald Linke. The main responsibility of Ernst, who had been CEO of juwi Service & Solutions between January 2013 and January 2015, will be the commercial as well as the product and service-related management of the DVGW Group. (more…)

Advertisements
Results of the Feasibility Study RHyntal Fuel Cell Ferry

Results of the Feasibility Study RHyntal Fuel Cell Ferry

ferry_Rheintal

Ferry Rheinthal, © Jobst Johann

A ferry over the Rhine has for many years been the link between Rüdesheim and Bingen, a cross-over between the federal German states of Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate. The car ferry is highly frequented: both by local tourism and by commuters who want to get to Ingelheim and Mainz, but also into the other direction to Wiesbaden and the Frankfurt area, including its adjacent communities. (more…)

Advertisements