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Hannah Cortnum and Maximilian Weitzer received the Best Paper Award for their contribution “CO2-based zeotropic mixtures for reversible HP-ORC systems – Exploiting temperature glide for enhanced performance” at the 8th International Seminar on ORC Power Systems (ORC2025). The paper presents exper...

On December 16, Professor Karl appeared as an expert guest on WDR 5's podcast “Politikum – der Meinungspodcast”. The discussion focused on how biogas plants can ensure security of supply in the electricity sector. The podcast is available in the ARD audio library and wherever podcasts are available.

From December 2nd to 3rd, 2025, the VDI conference “Energy Storage in Industrial Energy Systems” took place in Cologne. During the event, Nora Elhaus gave a presentation that addressed the key decisions for industrial energy strategies in the future electricity market. She showed how companies can r...

The 12th "Statuskonferenz Bioenergie" took place in Leipzig on 20 and 21 November 2025. Sabine Reiß, Constantin Heim, and Hannah Cortnum each gave a presentation. Sabine Reiß presented the BioProcessHeat project, focusing on the experimental results of an Oxyfuel gasification of biogenic residues to...

The field trip on the topic of renewable energies took place from 5 to 7 November 2025. The first stop was the biomass cogeneration plant in Bad Mergentheim, which supplies the city's district heating network. In the afternoon, the tour continued to Mannheim, where participants visited the wastewate...

On 3 November 2025, the Chair of Energy Process Engineering at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg hosted the closing workshop “Optimization of Sewage Sludge Combustion in Stationary Fluidized Beds”. The workshop focused on operational aspects, emission reduction — particularly N₂O meas...

From 9 to 11 September 2025, the 8th International Seminar on ORC Power Systems took place in Lappeenranta, Finland. The conference focused on the exchange of information on thermodynamic cycle processes with organic working fluids. In addition to organic Rankine cycles, reversible ORC heat pump sys...

In an article published today by Nordbayern.de, Professor Karl addresses myths about renewable energies and the energy transition and debunks them. You can read the entire article here.

The 57th Kraftwerkstechnische Kolloquium (Power Plant Technology Colloquium) took place in Dresden from 7 to 8 October 2025. Jakob Müller and Nora Elhaus each gave a presentation at the student conference. Jakob Müller discussed the production of CO2-neutral LNG. Nora Elhaus presented the role of en...