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■ INNOVATIVE INDUSTRY
concluded Jürgen Wollschläger, project coordinator and Managing Director of Raffinerie Heide. Region- al cement production unavoidably involves CO2. Along with the ‘green’ hydrogen, this will be used in the refinery as a raw material for the production of synthetic hydrocarbons. That would be an impor- tant step towards de-carbonizing the cement indus- try.
With these approaches to the project, ‘Reallabor Westküste 100’ succeeded in prevailing in the Ger- man Ministry of Economics and Energy’s nationwide ideas contest ‘Real laboratory for the energy revolu- tion’. As just that, this will speed up the transfer of technology and innovation from research into prac- tice. As Wollschläger declared: “With this result we have achieved an important step towards our aim of being able to fly, build and heat more sustainably in future. Our partners from business and research are now working on a detailed project specification based on the draft proposal already submitted. That will set the scene for activities in the course of 2020.”
YEARS OF RESEARCH
‘Westküste 100’ finds itself in good company with the ‘KEROSyN100’ project, started last summer. Years of research by Heide Raffinerie and other part- ners have gone into the latter project, which is super- vised by Bremen University. The basic idea is to use wind power to produce synthetic, environment-friend- ly kerosene. Should the project succeed in realizing the potential for harnessing ‘green’ hydrogen pro- duced from wind power to produce aviation fuels, which would be a highly promising option for more cli- mate awareness in aviation.
SYNTHETIC KEROSENE
Raffinerie Heide is already Hamburg Airport’s main fuel supplier. “That puts us in a good position to boost the decarbonization of air traffic. The project is al- ready making highly promising progress. We are de- lighted to have succeeded in gaining Lufthansa as a partner. Simply producing the fuel is not enough. We need a customer,” reports Jürgen Wollschläger. The partnership with the airline enables the refinery to make a regionally produced product available to the
USING WIND POWER, ‘GREEN’ HYDROGEN IS PRODUCED IN RAFFINERIE HEIDE
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Raffinerie Heide can process up to 4.5 million tons of crude oil per year, equivalent to Schleswig-Holstein’s total demand. The company produces traditional fuels such as petrol and diesel, as well as aviation fuel. With around 560 staff plus 40 trainees, Raffinerie Heide is one of the largest employers in the Dithmarschen district of Schleswig-Holstein.
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