Coordination Funds

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The purpose of this priority program is to connect the disciplines of combustion science and advanced manufacturing for enabling a fuel flexible, clean, efficient, and safe thermochemical energy conversion of hydrogen-based fuels, such as hydrogen and ammonia, and their blends with methane or natural gas. Compared to conventional fuels, hydrogen and ammonia have fundamentally different combustion properties, which are reflected, for example, in different burning rates, flammability limits, ignition energies, and pollutant formation behavior and, hence, require significant adaptations of existing technologies. The advancement of hydrogen-containing fuel technologies is important in all energy sectors including, for instance, power generation in gas turbines and the supply of process heat with industrial burners. It requires the joint increase of thermal efficiencies and reduction of pollutant emissions, while considering stability, fuel flexibility, and safety. These adaptations will be achieved here by a combination of simulation-based design with innovative manufacturing processes, such as additive manufacturing, which allows for a large degree of freedom in design and the choice of materials. Apart from the scientific goals, the training and promotion of researchers in the early stage of their career is an important objective. For achieving the scientific goals, close coordination is required to ensure collaborations and synergies within and among the different projects. As a basis for this, we are planning for regular project workshops for all participants, specific workshops for young researchers, and an international workshop, which additionally promotes the key project ideas and provides international visibility. To foster the scientific exchange and networking of young researchers both within the priority program and internationally, we are planning an international visitors program and extended research stays abroad for the young researchers. The planned Mercator Fellow, Prof. Andrea Gruber, will bring unique expertise to the project relating fundamental research on hydrogen-based fuels to industrial applications. Further, research data management will be an important aspect, which will be promoted and enforced by the coordination project. In addition, gender equality and diversity measures are planned. For this, the coordination project will organize corresponding workshops and additionally support project members to make better use of local programs. All these measures will be centrally administrated by the coordination project.