Research News July 2022

The monthly editions of Research News are here to keep you informed about recent projects by the Fraunhofer Institutes. This update on current trends, future topics, studies, the latest developments and innovative concepts goes out to you at the beginning of each month.Hydrogen as an energy carrier is becoming increasingly important for the global energy transition. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA have developed a clever method of generating hydrogen: They generate the energy carrier from green waste and sewage sludge. The CO2 that is created in this process can be used as a raw material in the chemical industry or stored in the ground in abandoned natural gas fields. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems IKTS, in turn, have developed HyMethShip, a propulsion concept for generating hydrogen from methanol. This alternative to marine engines, which use environmentally unfriendly diesel and fuel oil, is expected to almost completely eliminate greenhouse gas emissions in the future. Another important building block for the energy transition is electromobility. Neodymium-iron-boron high-performance permanent magnets are required for an electric motor to work. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Materials Recycling and Resource Strategies IWKS want to prove that recycling these magnets on a large scale is actually worth the effort and that electric motors with recycled old magnets can deliver the same performance as with their original new magnets. (font: https://www.isc.fraunhofer.de/en/press-and-media/press-releases/innovation-by-creative-economy-ICE.html