NEW ULM — A delegation representing Saerbeck Region Nine and the University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment met with New Ulm and area city officials Wednesday as part of a roundtable on energy conservation and sustainability goals Many of those attending the discussion were part of a similar panel discussion held last March That meeting was led by Guido Wallraven via video conference Wallraven is the technical director for the city of Saerbeck Saerbeck is a community of 7,200 residents in Germany that began implementing climate-smart projects in 2009 Wallraven was in charge of implementing about 150 individual initiatives that promote and implement local climate protection the community transformed a former ammunition depot into a bioenergy park with a mix of renewable sources such as solar The result is a community that produces three times more electricity than the community needs and cuts its carbon footprint in half Wallraven has been working on municipal climate protection issues for more than 15 years Wallraven now serves as a consultant to municipalities and cities on local measures that support sustainability Tim Walz signing a bill requiring Minnesota’s electrical utilities to transition to 100 percent carbon-free energy sourced by 2040 This gives Minnesota 17 years to transition away from coal and natural gas New Ulm wanted to have conversations with Saerbeck a community that has undergone the transition New Ulm City Manager Chris Dalton noted Saerbeck completed their project in 14 years Wallraven said the initial motivation for Saerbeck to implement a climate-smart project was connected to community leaders wanting to make improvements for future generations Wallraven made it clear that Saerbeck’s success was connected to citizen involvement The residents of Saerbeck got behind the smart-climate work the German government was supporting renewable energy adoption Sabine Engle of the University of Minnesota’s Institute of Environment said in the year 2000 the Green Party became a member of the German government leading to a Green Energy schedule — similar to the legislation signed by Walz Early adopters of renewable electricity were rewarded People were able to invest in renewable electricity renewable energy investments were some of the best investments remaining Many German farmers invested at that time because the German commissioner for the environment encouraged them to invest Many farmers began using land to harvest wind energy Wallraven said Germany has a strong desire to be energy independent the country was dependent on importing oil and gas the desire to be energy independent increased throughout Germany Wallraven said more than 50% of Germany’s natural gas and oil was coming from Russia New Ulm Public Utility Director Kris Manderfeld said a survey several years ago indicated the public wanted renewable options but questions of cost stopped the conversation She believed if the survey was conducted now but said residential customers would need the motivation to switch to renewables New Ulm has solar installations now with additional panels going up each year Local utilities buy back energy put into the grid “We’re seeing that change where people are more interested in self-sufficiency in their own homes,” Manderfeld said Wallraven said part of the challenge is getting people to accept a new way the community needs to see the project in action and educate people at the same time One of the most important aspects of the project was educating the youth By educating students as young as kindergarten they were able to raise the next generation to be aware of energy alternatives and spread this education to their parents Dalton believed New Ulm was in a unique position in which many people are looking for investment opportunities He said there are parks to which people will donate without returns on investments He believed there is money for green energy projects Region Nine Community Development Planner Paola Ferrario suggested Minnesota’s move toward renewable energy could be attractive to new businesses There is a delegation of German companies visiting the Midwest in March “The Germans are very interested in coming to our area,” Ferrario said New Ulm power plant supervisor-chief engineer Glen Hillesheim had a question on geographical challenges of supplying power to a larger region Manderfeld explained public utilities looked into wind turbines a few years ago According to studies the best location to place a windmill in their area was in Nicollet County but the county put a moratorium in place preventing the construction of wind turbines Engel said energy production changes rapidly and what was true years ago Advances in technology could allow wind turbines to be placed elsewhere and be just as efficient Hillesheim said there was a desire to place wind turbines by a substation New Ulm will likely need a new substation on the west side of the community The round table discussion concluded with a tour of the New Ulm Power plant including a discussion of the steam generation system Hillesheim said there are infrastructure needs for the steam system Many of the businesses in downtown New Ulm connected to steam have thermostat issues that make it difficult to control heat Upgrades to the city’s steam system were viewed as a potential renewable energy project Some of the delegations later toured Black Frost Distillery one of the latest businesses to connect the steam system The discussion with the delegation and community shareholders were the first steps in determining how to move New Ulm and the region into regional energy alternatives NEW ULM – Friday May 9 is Provider Appreciation Day and Brown County Human Services encourages parents and the .. 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Copyright © 2025 Ogden Newspapers of Minnesota “Building this extra capacity in terms of space goes hand in hand with the expansion of our new business in the production of the advanced fuel bio LNG.” With the acquisition of BioEnergie Park Güstrow and the launch of the joint venture BALANCE EnviTec Bio-LNG GmbH the biogas all-rounder from Lower Saxony is developing the new and lucrative Bio-LNG market “Alongside capital investment and our innovative strengths we will naturally also be needing the necessary expertise and a sizeable addition to our team,” von Lehmden continued The expansion to the Lohne site will provide facilities for another 30 employees And positions are still available at both of the company’s locations in Lohne and Saerbeck “We look forward to applications from highly motivated candidates aiming at a position in sales or project management electrical engineering and prefabrication teams.” And the company’s production location at Saerbeck is also being further expanded - in terms of space and also personnel "The existing production area for our innovative EnviThan gas upgrading system is being expanded by 1800 square metres," adds von Lehmden the seven-metre-high hall will not be used for production alone - an office sanitary facilities and a customer lounge with a view into production are planned Renewable energy is naturally an important point of focus for the building work itself with Lohne and Saerbeck both being equipped with PV systems and the newly planned underfloor heating systems are operated with an air-source heat pump “Intelligent power storage systems and storage-based energy solutions are now helping us generate significant quantities of green energy at each of our sites,” said von Lehmden The company’s vehicle pool is also being steadily transitioned to gas and electric vehicles that run on PV power and bio CNG “We’re pleased to see an upswing in the market for the green fuel biomethane which has finally come about – especially in transport – thanks to RED II,” comments the CEO while also calling on lawmakers to engage fully with new technologies “At the end of the day,” von Lehmden cautions “any drive system is only as green as its fuel.” Receive our weekly Newsletterand set tailored daily news alerts Household, Technical Textiles Eurojersey and Framis Italia combine functionality and comfort Piave Maitex presents unique performances with ‘Again’ This week's key stories, direct to your inbox.Be the first to know. community initiatives and big cities are all choosing to generate energy form the sun in all sorts of diverse ways.Image: Gemeinde Saerbeck/Ulrich GunkaDrinking water from the sunThe village of Rema in Ethiopia operates a solar pump with a connected water tank and the water used to have to be piped to the village with a diesel pump But this was often broken or there was not enough fuel a solar pump has been supplying water to the 6,000 inhabitants many of whom also need the water for their fields Most people in rural regions in East Africa have no access to the power grid popular solar kiosks like this one in Olkiramatian the solar power from the roof is used to charge cellphones make money transfers by phone or check the market prices for their vegetables people make their living from coffee cultivation and traditional agriculture Then local electricians installed solar panels on the homes of over 600 families Local farmers or "campesinos" now have enough electricity for light generates more energy than the residents here consume it has become a model for urban development more and more old houses are now being converted into energy-plus houses This saves money and helps protect the climate The startup SOLshare gives people in rural Bangladesh access to cheap and clean electricity through self-sufficient micro-grids and creates an additional source of income for them Households with solar systems are connected to others who do not yet have access to the grid Solar power can also replace diesel and kerosene during power outages is powered by this rooftop solar installation and all medical equipment runs on solar power around €50,000 ($59,000) is saved on diesel power every year The Kenyan village of Talek has 1,500 inhabitants and has had solar power since 2015 The photovoltaic system with an output of 50 kilowatts is located on a small field and the batteries are housed in the small building next to it George Ndubi looks after the private solar power plant with mini-grid which can supply up to 300 customers with electricity This makes the solar power plant in the El-Wahat el-Bahariya Oasis all the more important without which farming would be impossible here the farmers have to keep clearing sand from the solar panels which is why more and more areas in the city are being used to produce renewable energy The solar panels on the front of this school car traffic in the city is being restricted wind farms are going up and more and more houses are being renovated The small town of Saerbeck in western Germany generates more electricity with solar wind and biomass power than its 7,200 citizens consume The energy park is now a model for other small communities around the world a delegation from the US visits for ideas to implement back home A leader in non-crimp fabrics (NCFs) and composite materials for high value technical textile applications Transport/​Aerospace, Industrial a technical textiles manufacturer headquartered in Saerbeck commands a leading position in the global market for fibre reinforced composite materials The company manufactures non-crimp fabrics (NCFs) for producing composite preforms structural core materials for composite components flow media for composite fabrication processes it manufactures ultraviolet (UV) cured-in-place pipe (CIPP) technologies for the maintenance of major pipelines and high-performance flame resistant (FR) composite materials for applications where fire safety is critical the prospects for Saertex look promising as the use of fibre reinforced composite materials becomes more widespread the company can look forward to strong demand for composite materials in the wind energy industry as major global economies continue to transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy the company is making significant investments in the development and production of composite components for wind turbine applications and it is specialising in the manufacture of pultruded composite planks and structural core materials for wind turbine rotor blades  In the automotive and mobility industries Saertex is poised to benefit from an acceleration of the transition to electric vehicles (EVs) which will drive demand for fibre reinforced composite materials that are able to improve the range opportunities for Saertex will stem from demand for composite materials which show potential for lightweighting and Saertex is well positioned to take advantage of growing demand for technologies which facilitate the trenchless rehabilitation of underground pipelines needed as a result of urbanisation ‘Profile of Saertex: a leader in non-crimp fabrics (NCFs) and composite materials for high value technical textile applications’ Reports are supplied in PDF format only via email and can be purchased by credit card or via PayPal readers can email their order and we will invoice accordingly and send their report by email upon receipt of payment To buy this report, please select one of the buttons below or email [email protected] Saertex appoints Christoph Geyer as new CEO We want to change the way we humans relate to nature and to each other We’ll dismantle the broken systems and global power structures that have failed us We challenge the power of fossil fuel corporations bolster support for renewable and citizen-powered energy and seek to hold big polluters to account Focusing on great global forests and oceans we aim to preserve protect and restore the most valuable ecosystems 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with films grown on sapphire without rips shows a combined contribution from strain and microstructure in the V2O3/Ni films Magnetization reversal characteristics captured by angular-dependent first order reversal curve measurements indicate a strong domain wall pinning along the direction orthogonal to the rips inducing an angular-dependent change in the reversal mechanism The resultant anisotropy is tunable with temperature and is most pronounced at room temperature which is beneficial for potential device applications Here we present a detailed angular and temperature (T) dependent study of the magnetic characteristics of V2O3/Ni thin films We observe long-range oriented terraces and long voids (“rips”) in the microstructure which induce a uniaxial magnetic anisotropy in the Ni film Ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) shows a uniaxial enhancement of the in-plane field Comparison measurements performed on sapphire/Ni samples without rips show similar uniaxial anisotropy suggesting that both the strain and microstructure are important in the observed properties of V2O3/Ni films The quasi-static magnetization reversal was investigated with first order reversal curve (FORC) measurements FORC diagrams show a different reversal mechanism when the field is applied parallel or orthogonal to the rips Measurements performed at 45° relative to the rips show both reversal mechanisms The FORC studies lead to understanding of the domain nucleation and pinning behavior resulted from the microstructure and strain emergent without patterning or magneto-crystalline considerations offers new opportunities for scalable nanomagnetic devices (a) AFM and (b) SEM image of the V2O3/Ni film (c) AFM of the sapphire substrate and (d) AFM of Ni on sapphire The image - supported by Fourier transform (insert) - identifies many rips oriented along the (\(01\mathop{5}\limits^{\bar{} }\)) diffraction vector the magnetization reversal characteristics of V2O3/Ni bilayer films with a strain-induced uniaxial anisotropy X-ray diffraction and microscopy show rips and voids in the Ni oriented along the (\(01\overline{5}\)) diffraction vector of the V2O3 FMR results show these rips attenuate magnon excitation while strain induced by microstructural terracing causes an effective uniaxial anisotropy field of 9.8 mT emphasizing the combined contributions from sample microstructure and strain Standard magnetometry confirmed a uniaxial easy axis as revealed by the measured coercivity and major loop squareness The effective anisotropy was demonstrated to be tunable by temperature with the effect being much weaker below the V2O3 SPT First order reversal curve measurements revealed that the anisotropy causes two different reversal mechanisms to exist within the sample Along the magnetic easy axis the domains reverse by a defect-induced localized magnetization reversal mechanism while the hard axis shows reversal by domain nucleation/growth mechanism FORC measurements performed between the hard and easy axes show a temperature-dependent transition between these reversal mechanisms This temperature evolution of the magnetic reversal provides insight into Ni microstructure change due to the strain exerted by V2O3 transition The results demonstrate an approach to achieve in-plane uniaxial shape anisotropy emergent in the films without patterning or magneto-crystalline considerations Such tunable oriented structures may be relevant to other research fields including the design of bidirectional phonon conductors for directed thermal transport One approach which can be used to extract these details from the FORC distribution is to use the (\(H\) \({H}_{R}\)) coordinates of features in the FORC distribution and correlate it back to the family of FORCs Mathematical Models of Hysteresis (Springer-Verlag Download references Work at UCD was supported by the National Science Foundation DMR-1008791 (D.A.G.) and ECCS-1611424 (K.L.) The magnetism aspect of this research at UCSD was supported by DOE Grant No DE-FG02-87ER-45332 and the oxide related research by AFOSR Grant No Dodrill for his extensive measurements and interactions acknowledges the support from the Fundación Ramón Areces (Spain) acknowledges support from the National Research Council Research Associateship Program acknowledges the support from FAPA program through Facultad de Ciencias and Vicerrectoria de Investigaciones of Universidad de los Andes Bogotá Colombia and Colciencias under contracts 120471250659 and 120424054303 X-ray measurements and analysis were performed by T.S. FMR measurements and microscopy were performed by J.G.R. Magnetic characterization and FORC measurements were performed by D.A.G All authors contributed to discussions and manuscript revision The authors declare that they have no competing interests Download citation DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-12690-z Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: a shareable link is not currently available for this article Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science Essential digital access to quality FT journalism on any device Complete digital access to quality FT journalism with expert analysis from industry leaders Complete digital access to quality analysis and expert insights complemented with our award-winning Weekend Print edition Terms & Conditions apply Discover all the plans currently available in your country See why over a million readers pay to read the Financial Times We use cookies to improve your experience on our site. Learn more. See the progress our Earthshot Prize Finalists We're heading to South America for the first time If you are interested in exploring a partnership with The Earthshot Prize blogs and insights from The Earthshot Prize and our wider community Enjoy behind the scenes stories and deep dives into key topics While there is of course plenty of focus on solar and wind as the leading alternatives to oil and gas-powered energy generation there are other technologies that may not be as well known but could be just as vital to fixing our climate One such solution is “green hydrogen”, so The Earthshot Prize caught up with Vaitea Cowan, Co-Founder of 2021 Fix Our Climate Winner Enapter to get an update on their progress and understand more about the potential of their solutions Hydrogen is a gas that we can use as a fuel it doesn’t produce any pollution when burned You can create hydrogen using machines called electrolysers At Enapter we build electrolysers that are powered using renewable energy sources like wind or solar to create what is known as ‘green hydrogen’ The handy thing about green hydrogen is that it’s incredibly versatile Any application today that uses fossil fuels can use this clean fuel instead Heavy-duty and long-distance transport like trucks can be refuelled quickly remote areas can get clean energy and long-term storage Hydrogen can also enable energy self-sufficiency in smaller electricity grids industries like steel and glassmaking are also turning to renewable hydrogen The world is progressing in switching to renewable sources of electricity generation but the other ~79% of our energy use largely comes from fossil fuels Green hydrogen is an alternative with zero CO2 emissions “There are a lot of smart people working on great ideas… we have people developing and bringing to life the solutions that can help us take the urgent action we need.” We think the industry will really kick off globally around 2027 As more renewable energy goes online; decentralised green hydrogen electrolysers like ours will help balance the electricity grid by using excess energy that would otherwise go to waste transport and use hydrogen will be developed at scale including hubs that will allow refuelling for air this renewable fuel can only help fix our climate once the cost of green hydrogen dramatically drops in parallel to more solar and wind being installed to lower the cost of electricity At Enapter we are proud to be playing our role by scaling our production and thereby lowering the price of our electrolysers Vaitea Cowan and colleague inspect Enapter AEM green hydrogen electrolyser We’re almost ready to go live with the first demonstration model of our megawatt-scale electrolyser which will meet larger green hydrogen needs Construction has begun on our Enapter Campus production and R&D site in Saerbeck Germany and we also set a production record in Q4 2022 with more than 1,200 latest-generation electrolysers delivered to customers worldwide the use of our AEM Electrolysers in 2022 prevented emissions equivalent to just shy of 45,000 tonnes of CO2 We’re excited about the launch of our demonstration model AEM Multicore in May We’re also shipping our first commercial megawatt-scale electrolysers in 2023 While we already use 100% locally generated renewable electricity from the next-door Bioenergiepark energy storage with green hydrogen and other measures to make and use a lot of our electricity on-site 3D render of Enapter's soon to be built green hydrogren mass-production facility in Saerbeck Enapter engineers work on their green hydrogen electrolysers Enapter team with Liquid-cooled AEM Electrolysers Vaitea Cowan presents her TED Talk on Green Hydrogen in Vancouver in September 2022 Enapter team win the 2021 Fix Our Climate Earthshot Prize I would say The Earthshot Prize is your platform to shoot for the stars and we need bold goals to repair our planet: Aim high We can all raise the topic and speak about it in our communities the more they will find or create agency for themselves the more they avoid the immobilising effect of the doom narrative There are a lot of smart people working on great ideas From ‘bio-mining’ to sequestering carbon in farmlands and allocating carbon credits to farmers we have the people developing and bringing to life the solutions that can help us take the urgent action we need Learn more about the Enapter and the incredible work of all our Fix Our Climate Finalists New manufacturing process based on a closed resin injection system Industrial To enhance its range of fibre-based materials for composites in the wind industry Saertex will introduce a new pultruded profiles range at JEC World 2022 in Paris from May 3-5 The new SAERplanks complement the company’s non-crimp fabrics made of glass and carbon fibres for the spar cap section within rotor blades In recent years the company has been developing an in-house manufacturing capability for making pultruded profiles with elevated strength and stiffness The first production line is about to start at the Saertex headquarters in Saerbeck The SAERplanks are based on heavy tow carbon fibres produced in a newly developed pultrusion process no longer based on a traditional resin bath There are two outstanding things about SAERplanks – firstly the carbon fibre is combined with a new hybrid resin system developed in collaboration with AOC Resins and secondly the manufacturing process is based on a closed resin injection system Saertex has been partnering with AOC Resins in this project to achieve the high requirements for reliable performance AOC managed to develop a high-performance hybrid resin specifically for Saertex Through multiple product development iterations and thorough experimental design the teams experts have been able to optimise resin composition and key process settings Saertex is now able to run its process consistently with excellent quality and performance reliability In February this year Saertex opened its 17th site worldwide for the production of multiaxial glass fibre non-crimp fabrics for lightweight construction applications in Ciudad Juárez The site benefits from its proximity to key customers producing rotor blades for the wind power sector 54 new jobs will be created at the newly founded Saertex Mexico www.saertex.com Swansea University leverages VABS simulation software Metrics details The metastable ε-Fe2O3 is known to be the most intriguing ferrimagnetic and multiferroic iron oxide phase exhibiting a bunch of exciting physical properties both below and above room temperature The present paper unveils the structural and magnetic peculiarities of a few nm thick interface layer discovered in these films by a number of techniques The polarized neutron reflectometry data suggests that the interface layer resembles GaFeO3 in composition and density and is magnetically softer than the rest of the ε-Fe2O3 film While the in-depth density variation is in agreement with the transmission electron microscopy measurements the layer-resolved magnetization profiles are qualitatively consistent with the unusual wasp-waist magnetization curves observed by superconducting quantum interference device magnetometry Interestingly a noticeable Ga diffusion into the ε-Fe2O3 films has been detected by secondary ion mass spectroscopy providing a clue to the mechanisms guiding the nucleation of exotic metastable epsilon ferrite phase on GaN at high growth temperature and influencing the interfacial properties of the studied films X-ray absorbtion spectroscopy) or on the bulk-integrated properties (X-ray diffraction the present paper involves a depth resolved analysis of the ε-Fe2O3/GaN films performed by polarized neutron reflectometry (PNR) transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and secondary ion mass spectroscopy (SIMS) Atomic force microscopy images of the ε-Fe2O3 surface (a) and of the clean GaN surface (b). Cross-section transmission electron microscopy images of the 70 nm ε-Fe2O3 layer: the bright-field image (c) and high-resolution image (d). Magnetization loops of ε-Fe2O3 taken with the magnetic field applied in the sample plane after correction for the diamagnetic contribution from the GaN/Al2O3 Shown are original loops (a) and (b) decomposed into hard and soft magnetic components SIMS depth profiles measured in a 25 nm thick ε-Fe2O3/GaN film grown at 800 °C Iron is presumably substituted by gallium diffusing into the film from the GaN substrate The gray rectangle gives the idea of broadening related to the film thickness inhomogeneity In the present work a complementary structural chemical and magnetic in-depth investigation of the ε-Fe2O3 epitaxial thin films grown on GaN (0001) surface by pulsed laser deposition is reported In agreement with the other works describing the growth of epsilon ferrite films on oxide substrates the ε-Fe2O3/GaN films were shown to have columnar structure naturally assigned to the presence of the 120° crystallographic domains a few-nm thick transition layer with distinctly different properties has been detected at the interface between ε-Fe2O3 and GaN The depth-resolved magnetization profiles obtained by PNR have shown that this interface layer has a lower nuclear SLD and is magnetically softer than the main volume of the ε-Fe2O3 film While the density variation is in agreement with the transmission electron microscopy measurements the soft magnetic behavior is shown to be related to the two component magnetization loops observed in the same samples by SQUID magnetometry Interestingly the SIMS has shown that the interface region is Ga rich and Fe deficient We conclude that the main ε-Fe2O3 film is likely to inherit the orthorhombic Pna21 structure from the isostructural GaFeO3-like interface layer that forms at the early iron oxide deposition stage due to thermal migration of Ga atoms from the substrate The reported observations shed light onto the mechanisms guiding nucleation of the exotic metastable epsilon ferrite phase on GaN and influencing the structural and magnetic properties of the studied films Hybrid ferromagnetic-semiconductor structures Electrical spin injection in a ferromagnetic semiconductor heterostructure Spintronics: a spin-based electronics vision for the future Giant coercive field of nanometer-sized iron oxide Formation of spherical and rod-shaped ε-Fe2O3 nanocrystals with a large coercive field S.-i First observation of phase transformation of all four Fe2O3 phases (γ-ε-β-α-phase) Journal of the American Chemical Society 131 Epitaxial stabilization of ε-Fe2O3 (00l) thin films on SrTiO3 (111) Stabilization of metastable ε-Fe2O3 thin films using a GaFeO3 buffer Epitaxially stabilized thin films of ε-Fe2O3 (001) grown on YSZ (100) Large coercivity and low-temperature magnetic reorientation in ε-Fe2O3 nanoparticles Hard magnetic ferrite with a gigantic coercivity and high frequency millimetre wave rotation Multiferroic iron oxide thin films at room temperature Nanometer-size hard magnetic ferrite exhibiting high optical-transparency and nonlinear optical-magnetoelectric effect Mesoscopic bar magnet based on ε-Fe2O3 hard ferrite Tunable polymorphism of epitaxial iron oxides in the four-in-one ferroic-on-gan system with magnetically ordered α- arXiv 1712.05632 [cond-mat.mtrl-sci] (2017) GaN and related materials for device applications Tunnel junctions with multiferroic barriers The effect of Al substitution on the structural and magnetic properties of epitaxial thin films of epsilon ferrite Chemical tuning of room-temperature ferrimagnetism and ferroelectricity in ε-Fe2O3-type multiferroic oxide thin films structure and magnetism of ε-Fe2O3 in nanoparticle form A mechanism of magnetic hysteresis in heterogeneous alloys Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A: Mathematical Nanoscale multiphase separation at La2/3Ca1/3MnO3/SrTiO3 interfaces Interface formation and defect structures in epitaxial La2Zr2O7 thin films on (111) Si Magnetic properties of the SiO2(Co)/GaAs interface: Polarized neutron reflectometry and squid magnetometry Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 200 Polarized neutron reflectometry for the analysis of nanomagnetic systems Recent upgrades of the neutron reflectometer D17 at ILL Ukleev, V., Chumakov, A., Saerbeck, T. & Vorobiev, A. Neutron reflectometry of exotic ε-Fe2O3 thin films. Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), https://doi.org/10.5291/ILL-DATA.5-54-226 (2017) Scientific reviews: Neutron polarization analysis corrections made easy An improved algorithm for reducing reflectometry data involving divergent beams or non-flat samples Journal of Applied Crystallography 48 (2015) Genx: an extensible X-ray reflectivity refinement program utilizing differential evolution Modern techniques for characterizing magnetic materials (Springer Science & Business Media Anomalous magnetization reversal due to proximity effect of antiphase boundaries Thermal stability of GaN thin films grown on (0001) Al2O3 (01\(\bar{1}\)2) Al2O3 and (0001)Si 6H-SiC substrates Influence of oxygen precursors and annealing on Fe3O4 films grown on GaN templates by metal organic chemical vapor deposition Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B Nanotechnology and Microelectronics: Materials and magnetic properties of a Fe3O4/Ga2O3/GaN spin injecting hetero-structure grown by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition Crystal structure of piezoelectric ferromagnetic gallium iron oxide Download references Kakurai for useful discussions and ILL and J-PARC facilities for provided neutron beamtime This work has been supported by RSF (project no 17-12-01508) in part related to development of epsilon ferrite growth technology and by RFBR (project no 18-02-00789) in part related to film characterization TEM studies have been performed on the equipment of “Material science and characterization in advanced technology” Federal Joint Research Center supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (id RFMEFI62117X0018) Present address: Laboratory for Neutron Scattering and Imaging (LNS) RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS) Comprehensive Research Organization for Science and Society (CROSS) Institute of Materials Research and Engineering Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR) The authors declare no competing interests Publisher's note: Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations Download citation DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-25849-z Transport/​Aerospace Ship of the Year 2016 in Norway wins JEC Innovation Award 2017 Energy TransitionEXCLUSIVE | Enapter eyes 83% cost reduction for its unique AEM hydrogen electrolysers by 2025Capex is due to drop to €550/kW within three years due to economies of scale and automation at new German factory Project part of a €525 million facelift for the Santiago Bernabéu A significant number of companies partnered with Nanotures in the construction of the retractable composite roof for Real Madrid’s Santiago Bernabéu Stadium which has just received the JEC World 2023 Building and Construction Award in a special ceremony held in Paris on March 2nd Partners included multiaxial non-crimp fabrics producer Saertex and nonwovens producer Fibertex of Aalborg Spanning a total area of 29,000 square metres the retractable roof consists of three sections mechanically joined to reach composite beams spanning 75 metres The composite sections were produced by resin infusion of the fluoropolymer-coated PTFE membrane avoiding the use of holes in the core and the use of excess polymer The main roof is based on the spoked-wheel principle and consists of an inner tension ring connected to an outer compression ring by 44 radial cables The cable system carries the steel structure of radial girders and V-columns The compression ring is supported off the steel frame structure of the existing bowl It has been produced as part of a €525 million facelift for the stadium that was scheduled to be inaugurated in December 2022 to coincide with the football club’s 75th anniversary struggled to bring in materials due to Covid-19 and later the war in Ukraine and inauguration is now being planned for the start of the next football season this September JEC Group announced the winners of the JEC 2023 Innovation Awards selected from 35 finalists across 11 separate categories ahead of the JEC World exhibition which takes place in Paris from April 25-27 The JEC Innovation Awards have been running since 1998 and over the past 25 years some 1,900 separate companies have been associated with them often as part of multiple-partner projects the awards highlight the importance to the composites industry of teamwork amd collaboration JEC World 2023 will showcase some 1,200 exhibitors from 112 countries and attendees from Asia are back in a big way this year with both China and Japan having national pavilions and South Korea also strongly represented The event anticipates more than 35,000 visitors www.jec-world.events Hydrogen is going where solar panels and wind turbines cannot It is possible to produce 2.5 liters from water alone H has become so popular recently that it has been an important part of a colossal It is the simplest and most abundant chemical element in the universe although on Earth it cannot be found in free form the potential of green H promises to be a key factor in the transition to a more sustainable future that is less dependent on fossil fuels H intermixes with oxygen to generate electricity hydrogen provides an energy source that does not emit greenhouse gases or air pollutants H can also be used in a wide range of applications from transportation to heating buildings or as a feedstock in the chemical industry It is a potentially efficient form of renewable energy storage allowing users to access its use when intermittent sources go down such as the sun (solar energy) and wind (wind energy) Green H makes it possible to power a house for days with as little as 2.5 liters of water Generating power for your home with half the amount of water used for flushing is possible the company Enapter is betting on electrolysis technology to generate “green” hydrogen originally from a South Pacific island affected by climate change has a blind conviction in the potential of green H “I wanted to replace all the diesel generators in New Caledonia and all the remote areas that didn’t need to rely on dirty diesel,” Cowan said “But when I realized the potential of green hydrogen to replace fossil fuels He warned that green solutions will only gain momentum when their cost is not so high: “Green solutions will only be adopted if they are the most economically attractive And that is our mission in the future to make green hydrogen cost-competitive with fossil fuels.” The Saerbeck Germany-based company has deployed its ion exchange membrane electrolyzers in more than 100 projects in 33 countries Its technology transforms renewable electricity into gaseous H gas without the intervention of CO2 emissions developed more quickly and affordably than first thought is already supplying fuel to both cars and airplanes Enapter’s hydrogen generators won the Prince William Earthshot Award in the “Fix Our Climate” category years ago Enapter claims that its electrolyzer uses about 2.4 liters of water to produce enough hydrogen for a couple’s home for several days the exact number of days depends on the energy storage capacity This amount of water is equivalent to half the water used to flush the toilet once (5 liters) and eight times less than the water consumption of a dishwasher (20 liters) Enapter’s goal is to account for 10% of the world’s hydrogen production by 2050 hydrogen is able to overcome the limitations imposed by solar panels and wind turbines the devices with which we usually associate traditional renewable energies You are using an outdated browser. Please upgrade your browser or activate Google Chrome Frame to improve your experience The new electrolyser with anion exchange membrane technology is expected to produce 450 kilograms per day and will be available on the market in 2022 The electrolyser couples 440 mass-produced core modules – so-called AEM stacks – to form an overall system - From pv magazine Germany  Germany-based hydrogen specialit Enapter aims to bring an alternative to the traditional electrolyzers for MW-sized applications onto the market – the “AEM Multicore” which works with anion exchange membrane technology (AEM) The electrolyzer combines 440 mass-produced core modules – so-called AEM stacks – to form an overall system these series-connected modules can produce around 450 kilograms of hydrogen per day which corresponds to an energy equivalent of 9.5 barrels of crude oil The new product is expected to hit the market in the course of next year in the German region of North Rhine-Westphalia The 76,000 square meter “Enapter Campus” with buildings for research and development and a residential building will be built there from this autumn The production capacity in Saerbeck is expected to be 280 MW per year Enapter sees the AEM Multicore as an inexpensive and low-maintenance alternative to conventional electrolyzers it is able to react flexibly to fluctuating energy supplies from renewable sources “The AEM Multicore is cheaper than comparable products on the market – the use of standardized mass-produced stack modules makes the difference,” said Enapter boss Sebastian-Justus Schmidt Enapter already caused a sensation with its technology that moved away from classic alkaline electrolysis and PEM electrolysis. For a small-format electrolyzer that is suitable for, among other things, use in private homes, the company was recognized as a pv magazine storage highlight in 2020 More articles from Ralph Diermann Please be mindful of our community standards and website in this browser for the next time I comment By submitting this form you agree to pv magazine using your data for the purposes of publishing your comment Your personal data will only be disclosed or otherwise transmitted to third parties for the purposes of spam filtering or if this is necessary for technical maintenance of the website Any other transfer to third parties will not take place unless this is justified on the basis of applicable data protection regulations or if pv magazine is legally obliged to do so You may revoke this consent at any time with effect for the future in which case your personal data will be deleted immediately your data will be deleted if pv magazine has processed your request or the purpose of data storage is fulfilled Further information on data privacy can be found in our Data Protection Policy Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value" This website uses cookies to anonymously count visitor numbers. View our privacy policy. × The cookie settings on this website are set to "allow cookies" to give you the best browsing experience possible If you continue to use this website without changing your cookie settings or you click "Accept" below then you are consenting to this Close Enapter expands portfolio to megawatt-class with AEM Multicore electrolyzer Enapter is expanding its product portfolio to the megawatt-class with the AEM Multicore electrolyser. The final development of the new model has started, further tapping into the innovative potential of Anion Exchange Membrane (AEM) technology. The AEM Multicore will be introduced to the market next year, enabling low-cost, flexible and reliable green hydrogen production Enapter will cut the cost of green hydrogen by mass-producing standardised products The AEM Multicore is no exception: It will feature 440 mass-produced electrolyser core modules – the “AEM stacks” – in a complete system that can produce ~450 kg of hydrogen per day This is the energy equivalent of around 9.5 barrels of crude oil it offers a lower–cost alternative to traditional megawatt-class electrolysers while also proving highly responsive to the fluctuations of renewable electricity supply The AEM Multicore will be cheaper than comparable PEM electrolysers and using mass-produced AEM stack modules makes the difference “The modular approach makes the entire system more affordable but also significantly more robust and enormously flexible This makes it ideal for using intermittent renewable energy.” Its multi-core approach also offers reliability advantages compared to conventional systems while the “balance of plant” system that supports hydrogen production also has built-in redundancy Its unique modularity allows the AEM Multicore to flexibly adjust production levels in reaction to changes in renewable energy supply AEM is widely considered by scientists to be the most cost-efficient electrolysis technology Enapter is getting closer to realising AEM’s full potential to accelerate the adoption of green hydrogen energy with construction of its “Campus” mass-production facility in Saerbeck set to begin in autumn this year – and planned to reach completion and operation in 2022 the AEM Multicore will be ready to make a substantial contribution to the rapid scale-up of electrolyser capacity the demand for which is reflected in targets such as the 5 GW in installed generation capacity Germany is calling for by 2025 With the Campus’ foreseen annual production capacity of 280 MW it could meet more than 5% of this goal each year Enapter preparing AEM Multicore for 2022 launch, Saerbeck, May 11, 2021 OMV Eye Green Hydrogen Partnership This article was first published on Rigzone here OMV AG and Abu Dhabi Future Energy Co PJSC (Masdar) have signed a letter of intent to collaborate on producing renewable power.. Oman launches 3rd auction round for green hydrogen projects in Duqm area – These projects powered by more than 30 GW of renewable energy These projects powered by more than 30 GW of renewable energy Muscat –.. Vivestar inaugurated the region’s first Green Hydrogen Technology Hub and launched H-Armonía: what is it all about 2025.  With the start-up of the  first operational electrolyzers.. COPYRIGHT POLICY DISCLAIMER TERMS & CONDITIONS PRIVACY POLICY Don't be shy, get in touch. We love meeting interesting people and making new friends. Energy_Transition‘Our unique AEM electrolysers will produce cheaper green hydrogen than any rival tech’Start-up Enapter says its anion-exchange membrane machines will have lower capex and opex than alkaline and PEM competitors