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DLR in Jülich

The DLR site in Jülich employs around 40 people. Here, the Institute of Solar Research operates the Jülich experimental solar thermal power plant. This test facility aims to make solar thermal power more efficient and cost-effective as well as investigate production methods for solar fuels and the use of solar thermal energy for industrial processes.

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Solar power for sustainable pasta

October 9, 2020
The production of delicious Italian pasta requires wheat, water and energy. Researchers from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) are now working on methods to power the production and drying processes as sustainably as possible.
The green hydrogen economy – sector coupling and international cooperation as factors for success

September 30, 2020
The German Aerospace Center (DLR) is examining the potential of green hydrogen as a source of energy for a climate-neutral energy system in a two-part study.
DLRmagazine 165 – All-rounder in the starting blocks

August 17, 2020
DLRmagazine's August issue presents the all-rounder that is hydrogen and poses the question: Will hydrogen soon make its mark as an energy carrier? Also in this issue: DLR's ground station in Inuvik is celebrating its tenth anniversary and the research aircraft HALO flew over Barbados to investigate the interaction between clouds, weather and climate.
All-rounder in the starting blocks

August 17, 2020
Hydrogen already enjoys pole position in the periodic table. With the atomic number one, it is found right at the top. Will it soon become the hero of the energy and mobility transition, too? It certainly has what it takes.
New DLR institutes will investigate solar-chemical fuels and the future of air transport

July 3, 2020
In the future, mobility needs to become more environmentally friendly – whether synthetic fuels from renewable sources, electricity or hydrogen, innovative and low-emission engines, unmanned and electric aircraft, or concepts for their integration into the air transport system.
DLR at the Paris Air Show 2019

June 17, 2019
The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) will be showcasing its latest projects and research results from 17 to 23 June 2019 at this year’s Paris Air Show. At the joint German stand in Hall 2C, DLR will be featuring its activities in digitalisation, climate change and maintaining mobility.
Safety in solar power plants – silicone oil passes final qualification test

August 2, 2018
There are currently no uniformly applicable standards or regulations for approval and market introduction of novel heat transfer fluid for operation in solar thermal parabolic trough power plants. In principle, the medium must be independently qualified in terms of its chemical and thermodynamic properties.
Weather phenomena – the monsoon is both a pollutant remover and a carrier

June 15, 2018
The world's largest weather phenomenon – the South Asian monsoon – purifies the air efficiently, acting as a kind of cleaning agent for pollutants, but it also enables their distribution across the globe. The results of the international research project OMO (Oxidation Mechanism Observation) have now been published in the journal Science.
Solar receiver CentRec passes test at over 900 degrees Celsius

June 14, 2018
Researchers at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) have taken a major step forward in the development of receiver technology for solar tower power plants. The innovative radiation receiver CentRec in the solar tower at the DLR facility in Jülich passed its first test at extremely high temperatures in May 2018. During the test, the researchers heated ceramic particles in the receiver to over 965 degrees Celsius, and in doing so demonstrated that concentrated solar radiation can be used to generate and store energy at very high temperatures.
ONERA and DLR perform Beluga XL ground vibration testing

June 7, 2018
A joint team from the French aerospace research centre ONERA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) performed the ground vibration testing (GVT) of the new Airbus Beluga XL large transport aircraft.
European-wide research flights focus on greenhouse gas methane

June 1, 2018
Effective monitoring of greenhouse gases is required to achieve ambitious targets for limiting greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, the sources and sinks of greenhouse gases must be understood as precisely as possible to produce reliable climate forecasts. From mid-May to mid-June 2018, a flight test campaign led by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) is contributing to this international effort.
HALO research aircraft measures the emissions of megacities

March 21, 2018
Air quality in major cities is a hot topic, especially with regard to road traffic and residents' health. However, emissions do not just remain in conurbations. Instead, particles and gaseous pollutants can often be transported thousands of kilometres by the wind.
A look back at 2017 - The largest artificial Sun in the world, seven new institutes and a new DLR strategy

December 21, 2017
In 2017, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) – in close cooperation with the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) - committed to a new strategy that targets long-term future goals.
A better understanding of geo-risks – focusing on the Andes

December 7, 2017
More and more people around the world are flocking to cities, creating densely populated regions. This also means that natural disasters pose a threat to a greater number of people, and that risk has been rising for decades worldwide.
HALO research aircraft measures emissions from major cities

July 17, 2017
Emissions from major cities can spread beyond the limits of these urban areas under certain weather conditions. When this happens, the wind often carries particles and gaseous pollutants over 1000 kilometres.
DLR at the Hannover Messe: Alternative fuels, low-emission gas turbines and air conditioning for electric cars

April 21, 2017
Carbon dioxide-neutral fuels are an important next step on the road to climate-friendly energy supply. Energy researchers from the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) will present how this kind of energy source can be manufactured and exploited in future, especially using solar power, at the Hannover Messe from 24 to 28 April 2017.
Two petabytes of data for climate research

April 5, 2017
Climate change, with all its ecological and economic implications, is one of society's greatest challenges. It is imperative that we develop efficient strategies and derive measures to protect our sensitive climate system on a global scale.
Sun at the push of a button

March 23, 2017
The world's largest artificial Sun started shining in Jülich on 23 March 2017. Johannes Remmel, the North Rhine-Westphalia Minister for Climate Protection, Environment, Agriculture, Nature Conservation and Consumer Protection, joined Georg Menzen of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie; BMWi) and Karsten Lemmer, Executive Board Member for Energy and Transportation at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), to inaugurate the new research facility Synlight.
#DLRmagazine 153 – Sun at your fingertips

March 23, 2017
In the April issue of the DLRmagazine, we are switching on the Sun. This is, of course, artificial and reserved for solar researchers in Jülich! The honeycomb assembly of 149 individually controllable radiator modules achieves 10,000 times the intensity of the solar radiation at Earth' surface.
REXUS 21/22: Students send eight experiments into space

March 16, 2017
How can space debris be captured? How can students reduce the rotation of research rockets in microgravity? The REXUS 22 research rocket was launched from the Esrange Space Center near Kiruna in northern Sweden, at 14:00 Central European Time (CET) on 16 March 2017. On board were student experiments to try and answer these and other questions.
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DLR in Jülich

Solar power for sustainable pasta

The green hydrogen economy – sector coupling and international cooperation as factors for success

DLRmagazine 165 – All-rounder in the starting blocks

All-rounder in the starting blocks

New DLR institutes will investigate solar-chemical fuels and the future of air transport

DLR at the Paris Air Show 2019

Safety in solar power plants – silicone oil passes final qualification test

Weather phenomena – the monsoon is both a pollutant remover and a carrier

Solar receiver CentRec passes test at over 900 degrees Celsius

ONERA and DLR perform Beluga XL ground vibration testing

European-wide research flights focus on greenhouse gas methane

HALO research aircraft measures the emissions of megacities

A look back at 2017 - The largest artificial Sun in the world, seven new institutes and a new DLR strategy

A better understanding of geo-risks – focusing on the Andes

HALO research aircraft measures emissions from major cities

DLR at the Hannover Messe: Alternative fuels, low-emission gas turbines and air conditioning for electric cars

Two petabytes of data for climate research

Sun at the push of a button

#DLRmagazine 153 – Sun at your fingertips

REXUS 21/22: Students send eight experiments into space

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Chair of the DLR Executive Board is honoured with the Women in Aerospace Europe Outstanding Achievement Award 2020

8th Industrial Days at the DLR site in Lampoldshausen

Pascale Ehrenfreund takes office as President of the IAF

Space – accessibility, diplomacy and cooperation

The DLR delegation during a visit to the JAXA Tsukuba Space Centre on 31 July 2019

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and DLR welcome European policy-makers to Brussels

Dust storms swirl at Mars' north pole

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DLR in Jülich

So­lar pow­er for sus­tain­able pas­ta

The green hy­dro­gen econ­o­my – sec­tor cou­pling and in­ter­na­tion­al co­op­er­a­tion as fac­tors for suc­cess

DL­R­magazine 165 – All-rounder in the start­ing blocks

All-rounder in the start­ing blocks

New DLR in­sti­tutes will in­ves­ti­gate so­lar-chem­i­cal fu­els and the fu­ture of air trans­port

DLR at the Paris Air Show 2019

Safe­ty in so­lar pow­er plants – sil­i­cone oil pass­es fi­nal qual­i­fi­ca­tion test

Weath­er phe­nom­e­na – the mon­soon is both a pol­lu­tant re­mover and a car­ri­er

So­lar re­ceiv­er Cen­tRec pass­es test at over 900 de­grees Cel­sius

ON­ERA and DLR per­form Bel­u­ga XL ground vi­bra­tion test­ing

Eu­ro­pean-wide re­search flights fo­cus on green­house gas methane

HA­LO re­search air­craft mea­sures the emis­sions of megac­i­ties

A look back at 2017 - The largest ar­ti­fi­cial Sun in the world, sev­en new in­sti­tutes and a new DLR strat­e­gy

A bet­ter un­der­stand­ing of geo-risks – fo­cus­ing on the An­des

HA­LO re­search air­craft mea­sures emis­sions from ma­jor cities

DLR at the Han­nover Messe: Al­ter­na­tive fu­els, low-emis­sion gas tur­bines and air con­di­tion­ing for elec­tric cars

Two petabytes of da­ta for cli­mate re­search

Sun at the push of a but­ton

#DL­R­magazine 153 – Sun at your fin­ger­tips

REXUS 21/22: Stu­dents send eight ex­per­i­ments in­to space

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Chair of the DLR Ex­ec­u­tive Board is hon­oured with the Wom­en in Aerospace Eu­rope Out­stand­ing Achieve­ment Award 2020

8th In­dus­tri­al Days at the DLR site in Lam­pold­shausen

Pas­cale Ehren­fre­und takes of­fice as Pres­i­dent of the IAF

Space – ac­ces­si­bil­i­ty, diplo­ma­cy and co­op­er­a­tion

The DLR del­e­ga­tion dur­ing a vis­it to the JAXA Tsuku­ba Space Cen­tre on 31 Ju­ly 2019

Meck­len­burg-West­ern Pomera­nia and DLR wel­come Eu­ro­pean pol­i­cy-mak­ers to Brus­sels

Dust storms swirl at Mars' north pole

Solar power for sustainable pasta

The green hydrogen economy – sector coupling and international cooperation as factors for success

DLRmagazine 165 – All-rounder in the starting blocks

All-rounder in the starting blocks

New DLR institutes will investigate solar-chemical fuels and the future of air transport

Safety in solar power plants – silicone oil passes final qualification test

Weather phenomena – the monsoon is both a pollutant remover and a carrier

Solar receiver CentRec passes test at over 900 degrees Celsius

ONERA and DLR perform Beluga XL ground vibration testing

European-wide research flights focus on greenhouse gas methane

HALO research aircraft measures the emissions of megacities

A look back at 2017 - The largest artificial Sun in the world, seven new institutes and a new DLR strategy

A better understanding of geo-risks – focusing on the Andes

HALO research aircraft measures emissions from major cities

DLR at the Hannover Messe: Alternative fuels, low-emission gas turbines and air conditioning for electric cars

Two petabytes of data for climate research

Sun at the push of a button

#DLRmagazine 153 – Sun at your fingertips

REXUS 21/22: Students send eight experiments into space

Go to website

Chair of the DLR Executive Board is honoured with the Women in Aerospace Europe Outstanding Achievement Award 2020

8th Industrial Days at the DLR site in Lampoldshausen

Pascale Ehrenfreund takes office as President of the IAF

Space – accessibility, diplomacy and cooperation

The DLR delegation during a visit to the JAXA Tsukuba Space Centre on 31 July 2019

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and DLR welcome European policy-makers to Brussels