NEW PROCESS PLANT CONCEPTS

CORE AREA: 

  • Chemical processes
  • Energy technology
  • Renewable energies, climate change
  • apparative solutions


WORK AREAS/ PROJECTS

 CURRENT :

  • Energy systems of the future
  • Water electrolysis with technology comparison, cost structure analysis, potentials, applications
  • Natural gas pyrolysis to hydrogen and carbon with applications
  • Production of hydrogen carriers such as methanol and ammonia
  • New thermal storage technologies
  • CO2 recovery from off-gas and the air
  • Energy import      

Customers/ current: US H2-Electric, NEOM and KAUST SA amongst others 



HISTORY: 

  • Environmental technologywith water and gas purification for industry and municipalities, sewage treatment plants, biogas generation, fermentative biowaste recycling and NOX removal with hydrothermal catalysis
  • Polyurethane chemistryProduction of polyols and isocyanates and polyurethanes,

       Customers: BASF Schwarzheide, Lemförde 

  • Fertilizer production Process of potash chemistry and ureas, magnesium chloride decomposition to magnesium oxide and hydrogen chloride

       Customers: Kalichemie Sondershausen 

  • Air separation including the production of noble gases xenon, krypton and applications for energy storage

       Customers: Linde AG 

  • Pharmacy
  • Biotechnology recombinant genetic engineering products
  • Active ingredients chemical syntheses

       Customers: European Pharma industry, Roche Basel, Aventis Sanofi, Bayer GER and 
       US, Wyeth UK, Russland amongst others 

  • Nuclear power plants fuel assemblies - manufacture 

       Customers:Russia for 400 MW power plant 

PATENTS/ CURRENT 

  Patents to the above mentioned topis in cooperation Machhammer/Maaß/Möckel 
 
 
 1) Inventor: Machhammer, 0., Maaß, H.-J.
  Ammonia production with natural gas pyrolysis
  Reference number 10 2019 005 452 0
  Applicant: NPPC 
 
 2) Inventor: Machhammer, 0., Maaß, H.-J.
  Pyrolysis to power and fuel 
  Reference number: DE 10 2013021418 Al
  Applicant: BASF Linde AG 
 
 3) Inventor: Machhammer, 0., Maaß, H.-J. et. al.
  Coal carbonization and carbonization gases with pyrolysis to fuel 
  Reference number: WO2018/007205 Al
  Applicant NPPC 
 
 4) Inventor: Machhammer, 0., Maaß, H.-J., Möckel , H.-O.
  Pyrolysis and CO2-Strip process for CCU
  Reference number 10 2019 000 803
  Applicant NPPC 
 
 5) Inventor: Maaß, H.-J., Machhammer, 0.
  Pyrolysis for steel mill exhaust gases
  Reference number: WO 2017 /092873 Al
  Applicant: Thyssen 

PUBLICATIONS/ LECTURES 

  Publications/ Lectures to the above mentioned current topics 
  in cooperation with Machhammer/Maaß/Möckel 
 
 1) Machhammer, 0. et.al.
  Economic / ecological consideration for the production of hydrogen in large plants Chem.Ing.Technik 2015,87,No.4,409-418 
 
 2) Machhammer, 0., Maaß, H.-J.
  Generation of electricity and liquid fuels with a low carbon footprint
  CIT 2018,90,No.1-2.212-225 
 
 3) Maaß, H.-J., Möckel, H.-O.
  Complementary decarbonization of the generation of electrical energy and the production of synthetic fuels through renewable energies and fossil fuels
  CIT 2019,91,No.4,467-475 
 
 4) Compendium VdA legwork part “Pyrolysis and fuels” 
  
 5) Machhammer, 0., Maaß, H.-J.
  lecture "Hydrogen as the basis for mobility ... "
  Motoren-Kongress Baden-Baden 2019 
 
 6) Maaß, H.-J.
  Dialogpapier, Marine-Fuel ABB, Baden 5/2019