Prof. Dr. Harald Funke and his team at the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the FH Aachen - University of Applied Sciences have received the Innovation Award of the German Gas Industry in the category "Efficient Application Technology" for the co-development of their H2 micro-mix burner, which enables hydrogen to be burned in gas turbines in a low-emission, safe and CO2-neutral manner.
As early as the 1990s, the design of the hydrogen combustion chamber and the special micro-mix combustion process (MMX) were invented by Dr. Friedemann Suttrop, a professor emeritus at Aachen University of Applied Sciences. Further development has taken place since 2004 under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Harald Funke. MMX uses many small flames instead of a few large ones as in conventional combustion processes.
The special design of the combustion chamber means that fewer nitrogen oxides are produced when hydrogen is burned. The "H2 micro-mix burner" project involves not only the researchers at Aachen University of Applied Sciences. It is also supported by a research alliance of Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd, B&B Agema GmbH and the Institute for Power Plant Technology, Steam and Gas Turbines at RWTH Aachen University.
Source: fh-aachen.de
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