Dipl.-Ing. Stefan Richter
Dipl.-Ing. Stefan Richter
Research Institute for Energy Economy Munich
Research Focus
Energy economic analyses on the subject of hydrogen production, logistics and application, as well as fuel cells
Life cycle assessment of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies
Formulation of a long-term strategy for the promotion of hydrogen energy technology
Initiation of hydrogen and fuel cell projects in Bavaria
Public relations on the subject of hydrogen energy technology in the form of brochures, meetings, trade fairs, media work etc.
Selected Publications
S. Richter, U. Wagner: R&D towards Provision of Hydrogen. Report on R&D of Energy Technologies, Working Group on Energy, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, 2004
S. Richter, U. Wagner: Hydrogen Production. in Landolt-Boernstein Handbook "Energy Technologies", Vol. 3: Renewable Energy, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 2005 (t.b.p.)
Strategy Report on Research Needs in the Field of Hydrogen Energy Technology. Hydrogen Strategy Group of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour (Ed.), Munich, 2005
Special Offer
The Coordination Center of the Bavarian Hydrogen Initiative (wiba) is a qualified contact for everyone interested in hydrogen technology, and supports foreign scientists and companies in establishing contacts to Bavarian firms, universities and research institutes working on hydrogen and fuel cells.
Congress-Abstract
水素―未来のユニバーサル・エネルギー・キャリアー―
エネルギー・キャリアーとしての水素の利点の一つは、さまざまな一次エネルギー源や異なる生産技術から生産可能なことである。天然ガスの水蒸気改質、石炭のガス化、あるいは重油の部分酸化など、化石燃料に基づいた技術は最先端の技術であり、これは、数十年間にわたって産業規模で利用されている。これに加えて、電気分解など特殊用途のためだけに利用される技術もある。さらには、光工学や光生物学の手法など他の技術も存在している。それらは、現在、研究の対象であるが、産業規模での利用のためにも、その開発が期待されている。
Hydrogen – the Universal Energy Carrier of the Future
One of the advantages of hydrogen as an energy carrier is that it can be produced from a wide variety of primary energy sources and different production technologies. Techniques based on fossil fuels like steam reforming of natural gas, gasification of coal or partial oxidation of heavy oil are state of the art technologies and are used in an industrial scale for decades. Beside these mature processes there are some technologies e.g. electrolysis, used only for special applications, and others, like photo-chemical or photo-biological methods, which are object of current research activities and have to be developed for the industrial scale.