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On 4th June, our colleague Johannes Reichl gave his inaugural lecture at the Linz Institute of Technology (LIT) Future Energy Lab at the Johannes Kepler University Linz. In his lecture entitled “The Energy Transition – Type and Magnitude of the (real) Challenges”, he presented the central challenges of the energy transition and outlined possible paths […]

This week, the fifth and final webinar of the HyUSPRe project took place. In this webinar, we presented the “Roadmap for Successful Deployment of Underground Hydrogen Storage in Porous Reservoirs in Europe”. The HyUSPRe project is investigating the feasibility and potential of large-scale underground geological storage of renewable hydrogen in Europe to support the EU’s

The current brochure “Biorefineries in Austria – examples from research and practice” from the Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology (BMK), which was produced in cooperation with the FCIO, offers: You can read the brochure here: https://fti-ressourcenwende.at/de/publikationen/broschueren/bioraffinerien-oesterreich-2024.php The companies, research projects and expert statements presented in the brochure provide a

On 16 May, Jovana Winkler and Michael Denk had the honour of giving a guest lecture on new legal perspectives in electromobility as part of the “Derecho y Tecnología” course at the Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico. In their presentation, they highlighted the latest legal and technological developments that are driving the European transport transition.

The experts of the Energieinstitut Linz at the IFAT trade fair in Munich: scouting for the latest technologies! On 14th May 2024, our senior and key researchers visited the current IFAT trade fair in Munich, the world’s leading trade fair for water, sewage, waste and raw materials management. The aim of the visit was to

The development of new heating systems and heat storage systems, research into new hydrogen systems and the implementation of CO2 utilisation were topics that we discussed at the Chair of Energy Systems at the Technical University of Munich in May. This also included a guided tour of the outstanding laboratories (and the integrated pilot plants)

In mid-May, we visited our cooperation partner Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB in Straubing with a delegation from the Energieinstitut an der JKU Linz. The active material and energetic utilisation of CO2 is a key factor for a climate-neutral system.Many thanks to Arne Roth and Ferdinand Vogelgsang from the Department of Biocatalysis,

Electricity storage systems are a key component in a renewable energy system. This is why the Energieinstitut an der JKU Linz is actively involved in research in this field. In three years of research work, the consortium of the EU HyFlow project has developed an extremely powerful, sustainable and cost-effective hybrid energy storage system that

Artificial turf and microplastics: effects and alternatives for sustainable sports pitches. A recently published scientific article led by Lukas Zeilerbauer and colleagues Johannes Lindorfer & Melanie Knöbl examines the sustainability of football pitches and compares natural and artificial turf pitches. Article available at: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/16/8/3487 One problem with artificial turf pitches is the release of microplastic