On September 25, 2023, 22 young researchers from the European Research Area (ERA) visited the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion (MPI CEC) as part of the DAAD-sponsored Green Hydrogen Research Tour. They are currently actively engaged in hydrogen research in their doctoral and postdoctoral work and are seeking exchange with colleagues.

Dorothea Müschenborn, project coordinator of the TransHyDE office at MPI CEC, gave them a general overview of the orientation and work at the institute. In particular, she discussed the BMBF-funded hydrogen lead project TransHyDE, which is dedicated to the topic of transport and storage infrastructure for green hydrogen. As project coordinator, she presented the ten TransHyDE projects on the four energy vectors gaseous and liquid hydrogen, ammonia and LOHC. The focus was on the AmmoRef project coordinated by MPI CEC, which is dedicated to the catalytically controlled recovery of pure hydrogen from ammonia. Dr. Holger Ruland, group leader of Catalytic Technology, gave the young scientists a first-hand insight with a visit to the research laboratory. Here they learned how eight catalyst samples are tested in parallel for their efficiency in splitting ammonia into hydrogen. The promising research results and technological developments were followed by a lively exchange of ideas.