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TWINGHY research project: The IOB at the project meeting in Bilbao

TWINGHY research project: The IOB at the project meeting in Bilbao

On March 11 and 12, 2025, the Gene­ral Assem­bly (GA) Mee­ting of the EU-fun­ded pro­ject TWINGHY — Digi­tal TWINs for Green Hydro­gen tran­si­ti­on in steel indus­try — took place in Bil­bao, Spain. The IOB was repre­sen­ted by our col­le­agues Nico Schmitz, Alex Gar­cia-Ver­ga­ra and Johan­nes Losa­cker. The pro­ject, which runs from Febru­ary 1, 2023, to July 31, 2027, aims to con­vert the rehea­ting fur­nace at the…

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SYRIUS Project: Progress for Hydrogen in Steel Production

SYRIUS Project: Progress for Hydrogen in Steel Production

On Febru­ary 26 and 27, 2025, the kick-off mee­ting of the Hori­zon Euro­pe pro­ject SYRIUS (“SOEC Hydro­gen Inte­gra­ti­on and Cir­cu­lar Use in Steel­ma­king Pro­cess”) took place at the pro­ject part­ner Acciai Spe­cia­li Ter­ni Spa. The pro­ject is fun­ded by the Euro­pean Uni­on and brings tog­e­ther lea­ding rese­arch insti­tu­ti­ons and com­pa­nies to demons­tra­te inno­va­ti­ve hydro­gen tech­no­lo­gies in steel pro­duc­tion. The…

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The IOB at the 6th CDI Innovation Meeting

The IOB at the 6th CDI Innovation Meeting

On Novem­ber 14, our col­le­ague Katha­ri­na Roth­höft tra­ve­led to Lud­wigs­ha­fen to take part in the 6th CDI Inno­va­ti­on Mee­ting. The event was orga­ni­zed by the Clus­ter Decar­bo­niza­ti­on of Indus­try (CDI) and took place at the pre­mi­ses of MVV Ena­mic Lud­wigs­ha­fen GmbH. As part of the EE4InG2 pro­ject, Katha­ri­na took the oppor­tu­ni­ty to exch­an­ge ide­as, net­work and dis­cuss cur­rent rese­arch trends. The CDI…

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The IOB at the HyInHeat General Assembly in Grenoble

The IOB at the HyInHeat General Assembly in Grenoble

From 28 to 30 Janu­ary, our col­le­agues Chris­ti­an Wup­per­mann, Tho­mas Ech­ter­hof, Nico Schmitz, Felix Kai­ser, And­res Rami­rez San­chez, Elsa Bus­son, Alex Gar­cia-Ver­ga­ra and Johan­nes Losa­cker atten­ded the gene­ral assem­bly of the EU-fun­ded lar­ge-sca­le pro­ject HyIn­Heat — Hydro­gen Tech­no­lo­gies for Decar­bo­niza­ti­on of Indus­tri­al Hea­ting Pro­ces­ses in Gre­no­ble, France. The Gene­ral Assem­bly offe­red an…

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Participation in the ESTEP Annual Event 2024 in Linz

Participation in the ESTEP Annual Event 2024 in Linz

From Octo­ber 29 to 31, 2024, our col­le­agues Chris­ti­an Wup­per­mann, Nico Schmitz and Tho­mas Ech­ter­hof took part in the ESTEP Annu­al Event 2024 in Linz, Aus­tria. The con­fe­rence was held under the mot­to “H2 for Green Steel meets A Cir­cu­lar Eco­no­my dri­ven by the Euro­pean Steel” and offe­red num­e­rous exci­ting pre­sen­ta­ti­ons. The con­fe­rence, orga­ni­zed by the Euro­pean Steel Tech­no­lo­gy Plat­form (ESTEP),…

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Otto Junker Prize 2024: Award for Moritz Diewald

Otto Junker Prize 2024: Award for Moritz Diewald

Moritz Die­wald was award­ed the pres­ti­gious Otto Jun­ker Pri­ze 2024 for his suc­cessful Mas­ter’s the­sis. This award is pre­sen­ted annu­al­ly to out­stan­ding gra­dua­tes of the Facul­ty of Elec­tri­cal Engi­nee­ring and Infor­ma­ti­on Tech­no­lo­gy and the Mate­ri­als Sci­ence and Engi­nee­ring Group in the Facul­ty of Geo­re­sour­ces and Mate­ri­als Engi­nee­ring at RWTH Aachen Uni­ver­si­ty. The Otto Jun­ker Foun­da­ti­on, foun­ded in…

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Successful participation in LaVision’s PIV seminars

Successful participation in LaVision’s PIV seminars

Our col­le­agues Eileen Tram­pe and Kath­ri­na Thei­sen took part in two LaVi­si­on semi­nars in Göt­tin­gen from Novem­ber 18 to 22. The semi­nars offe­red the oppor­tu­ni­ty to deepen their know­ledge of the opti­cal flow mea­su­re­ment tech­ni­que Par­tic­le Image Velo­ci­me­try (PIV). The DaVis PIV semi­nar took place from Novem­ber 18 to 20 and pro­vi­ded a com­pre­hen­si­ve intro­duc­tion to two-dimen­sio­nal and, in some cases,…

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Kick-off meeting for ‘FLOXonia’ in Renningen

Kick-off meeting for ‘FLOXonia’ in Renningen

On 3 Decem­ber 2024, the kick-off mee­ting for the FLOXo­nia pro­ject took place at WS Wär­me­pro­zess­tech­nik GmbH in Renn­in­gen. The event was atten­ded by our col­le­agues Lin­da Gies­ler, Nico Schmitz and Chris­to­pher Wün­ning. Ralph Eden­ho­fer from Pro­ject Manage­ment Jülich (PtJ) was also pre­sent to empha­sise the importance of the pro­ject. The pro­ject, which invol­ves WS Wär­me­pro­zess­tech­nik GmbH and the…

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The IOB at the Galvanizers Association Meeting in Cincinnati

The IOB at the Galvanizers Association Meeting in Cincinnati

From Octo­ber 20 to 23, 2024, our col­le­ague Elsa atten­ded the Gal­va­ni­zers Asso­cia­ti­on Mee­ting in Cin­cin­na­ti, USA. The con­fe­rence offe­red inte­res­t­ing insights into the latest deve­lo­p­ments and chal­lenges in the gal­va­ni­zing indus­try. To make the most of the trip, Elsa had alre­a­dy spent a few days in Chi­ca­go before­hand. This allo­wed her to get to know the city­’s impres­si­ve archi­tec­tu­re and cultural…

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The IOB at the Heavy Duty Congress 2024

The IOB at the Heavy Duty Congress 2024

On 24 Sep­tem­ber 2024, our col­le­ague Chris­to­pher Wün­ning took part in the Hea­vy Duty Con­gress 2024 in Duis­burg, which was orga­ni­zed and hos­ted by the Cen­ter for Fuel Cell Tech­no­lo­gy (ZBT). As part of the event, Wün­ning pre­sen­ted the BioH2Ref pro­ject, which deals with the decen­tra­li­zed pro­duc­tion of hydro­gen from resi­du­al mate­ri­als. The key deve­lo­p­ments in the field of mobi­li­ty with hydro­gen were…

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The IOB at the Humber Cluster in England

The IOB at the Humber Cluster in England

From Octo­ber 6 to 9, 2024, our col­le­ague Katha­ri­na Roth­höft took part in the net­work mee­ting of the “Hum­ber Indus­tri­al Clus­ter” in Eng­land. The event, orga­ni­zed by the CDI (Clus­ter Decar­bo­niza­ti­on of Indus­try), ser­ved to fami­lia­ri­ze Ger­man net­work part­ners with Bri­tish approa­ches to decar­bo­niza­ti­on. As part of the EE4Ing2 pro­ject, Katha­ri­na took part in the event in the Hum­ber regi­on. The trip…

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The IOB at the BW Congress in Heidelberg

The IOB at the BW Congress in Heidelberg

On Octo­ber 17, 2024, our col­le­ague Katha­ri­na Roth­höft took part in the Baden-Würt­tem­berg Con­gress on resour­ce effi­ci­en­cy and the cir­cu­lar eco­no­my. As part of the EE4InG2 pro­ject, Katha­ri­na led a forum tog­e­ther with two pro­ject part­ners. The con­gress offe­red com­pa­nies the oppor­tu­ni­ty to pre­sent various tech­ni­ques for pro­mo­ting sus­taina­bi­li­ty and to net­work on the deve­lo­p­ment of a circular…

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