Siemens patent applicationsInventors of the year 2019 have been announced
Siemens has named 23 researchers as "Inventors of the Year 2019". Their inventions range from a solution that allows older railroad lines to be electrified without major modifications to a postcard-sized module for industrial control systems that works with AI.
The team led by chemical engineer Professor Peter Wasserscheid combines climate-damaging carbon dioxide with hydrogen to create a "green" fuel. This is an important contribution to climate protection. The researchers have developed a reactor in which hydrogen can be converted with CO2 at a particularly low cost. The resulting methanol can be mixed with petrol or used directly as a fuel. The reactor runs flexibly, with different capacities and yet efficiently. Previous reactors are very large plants that have to be operated around the clock in order to be economically viable. In addition to Prof. Wasserscheid from the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, the team consists of Alexander Tremel, Katharina Meltzer and Manfred Baldauf (all from Corporate Technology).