On November 21st 2022, the first of three workshops within the ORBIT II project was held at OTH Regensburg under the title “Renewable Gas – The Forgotten Energy Carrier”. At…

On July 14th 2022 the 2nd project meeting within the joint project ORBIT II took place in Pfaffenhofen a. d. Ilm and Schweitenkirchen. A much welcomed change after 2.5 years…

Our kickoff meeting held on January 12th 2022 marks the starting point for the continuation of the “ORBIT” project. The overriding goal of the consortium continues to be the production…

“An important contribution to the national hydrogen strategy”: power-to-gas technology to be brought to industrial implementation. The successful work of the “ORBIT” project on storing electricity from renewable sources in…

With the defense of his dissertation in November 2020, Martin Thema from the Energy Networks and Energy Storage Research Unit successfully completed his cooperative doctorate. Dr.-Ing. Martin Thema successfully cleared…

From Regensburg to Ibbenbüren: Federal Minister for Research gives go-ahead for field trials. Launch of production and feed-in of green methane from the novel ORBIT bioreactor: on October 23rd 2020,…

After about one and a half years of trial operation in Regensburg, the ORBIT reactor was successfully commissioned at its new location, a gas pressure control and measurement facility in…

We are pleased to be part of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy’s (BMWi) 2020 Energy Research Report which was published in June 2020. You can download the…

The trickle bed bioreactor, the centerpiece of the ORBIT project, was put into operation at the OTH Regensburg. On May 15th 2019, the plant was presented on site during a…

Successful reactor relocation to Regensburg. The ORBIT trickle bed reactor for biological methanation was successfully dismantled in Nuremberg in week 10 and moved to its new location in Regensburg. There…