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Joint Funding for Fraunhofer ITWM and Fraunhofer IMM

AMMONPAKTOR – EU Project Aims to Improve Fuel Cells

Press Release / February 11, 2022

The energy transition can only succeed if many decentralized storage options and new energy sources are used. That is why ERDF is funding a very special project to explore the potential of ammonia as a hydrogen storage medium. The research partners are the Fraunhofer Institute for Microtechnology and Microsystems IMM in Mainz and the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM in Kaiserslautern. Yesterday, Ministerial Director Daniel Stich handed over the funding notification in Mainz.

The joint project bears the long title »Utilization of ammonia as a carbon dioxide-free hydrogen storage for the decentralized supply of hydrogen - development of an innovative compact reactor concept«, in short: AMMONPAKTOR. Solution concepts for a timely and logistically easier realizable hydrogen supply are investigated.

ITWM Expertise: Models and Simulations

While Fraunhofer IMM focuses on the technical implementation, among others at a test stand with battery cell, Fraunhofer ITWM provides mathematical models and simulations, which are of decisive importance for the efficient design of the chemical plants. The project AMMONPAKTOR started in October last year and will run until the end of 2022. During this period, Fraunhofer IMM will receive 2.2 million, Fraunhofer ITWM about half a million.

Förderbescheid Übergabe AMMONPAKTOR — © Fraunhofer IMM
Ministerial Director Daniel Stich presented the funding notification in the amount of 2,702,438 euros to Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Küfer, head of the division »Optimization« at Fraunhofer ITWM, and to Dr. Gunter Kolb, head of the division »Energy« at the Fraunhofer IMM; on the left side Prof. Dr. Michael Maskos, head of Fraunhofer IMM.

Further Informaion

Press Release of the Ministry of Science and Health [only available in German]

»The energy transition – with electricity generated decentrally by wind power and photovoltaics, production of hydrogen by electrolysis, and its storage in chemicals such as ammonia – requires the use of mathematical models, simulation, and optimization for the efficient design of the necessary processes. The Fraunhofer ITWM faces these tasks with great pleasure.«

Head of Division Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Küfer from Fraunhofer ITWM

Division »Optimization«

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