Projects

Carbon2Chem

The project team analyses how emissions from steel production can be feasibly deployed.
Steel mill gases created during steel production make a major contribution to the unpopular CO2 emissions. The project involving researchers at RUB aims to help use them in a sensible way. The plan by the 17 partners in the project “Carbon2Chem” is to acquire valuable basic substances for the chemical industry from steel mill gases. This shall be achieved by adding hydrogen to catalytic processes. The necessary hydrogen will be produced by electrolysis, while the electricity for electrolysis comes from renewable energies.

Plasma Chemical Processes
Plasma Modeling and Simulation
Funding Agency: 
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Funding Period: 
2016 - 2025

Me2H2

The project Me2H2 aims at the development of processes for a climate-friendly production of hydrogen with minimal power consumption. Water electrolysis is the benchmark for future H2 production without direct CO2 emissions. If operated with renewable electricity, H2 generation would also be climate-friendly with regard to upstream electricity generation. However, water electrolysis specifically consumes significantly more energy than today's industrial benchmark - the steam reforming of natural gas.

Plasma Chemical Processes
Funding Agency: 
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Funding Period: 
2019 - 2023

SFB 1316

The Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1316 “Transient atmospheric plasmas – from plasmas to liquids to solids” addresses these research questions by combining expertise in plasma physics, surface physics, chemistry, biotechnology, and engineering. This CRC focuses on transient atmospheric plasmas at varying spatial and temporal scales for the nanostructuring and activation of catalytic surfaces, for the coupling to catalysis and biocatalysis, as well as for electrochemical processes.

Plasma Science Fundamentals
Plasma Modeling and Simulation
Plasma Chemical Processes
Funding Agency: 
German Science Foundation (DFG)
Funding Period: 
2018 -

SFB TR 87

The SFB-TR 87 combines the expertise in the areas of plasma physics / plasma technology, materials science / surface engineering and interfacial chemistry. On this basis, ternary or quaternary ceramic layer systems on metal substrates with outstanding tribological properties as well as silicon- or carbon-containing oxide layers with outstanding barrier properties on plastic substrates are being investigated. For this purpose, the latest, partially self-developed source technology is used and characterized with a very broad, complementary spectrum of quantitative, also partially newly developed plasma diagnostics and one-off single-particle beam experiments. The focus is on pulsed high-power plasmas, such as High Power Pulsed Magnetron Sputtering (HiPIMS) systems, multi-frequency capacitively coupled plasma (MFCCP) systems and pulsed and high-frequency bias-driven microwave (MW) microwave systems, and inductively coupled plasmas (ICP). In order to meet the above vision, the goal is to explore the relationships between material properties and plasma parameters, to quantify them and to use them for plasma control, layer development and in-situ layer control. In this way, the previously prevailing empirical approach is overcome and a physically and chemically based process understanding is developed.

Plasma Science Fundamentals
Plasma for Materials / Surfaces
Funding Agency: 
German Science Foundation (DFG)
Funding Period: 
2010 - 2022