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Jens Bremer, #PhD student, Max Planck Institute for #Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems: "Hooked on a crane, the 960 kg LAUDA ITH 350 #thermostat hovers through our pilot plant hall. Its unique design should help me to speed-up chemical reactors." @maxplanckpress https://t.co/7dbCo2jwW4

#mymachineandme: Agata Baryzewska, #PhD student @MpiciPotsdam: "My machine is a Phoenix Solvent Drying System dispensing high quality, water- & oxygen-free organic solvents for chemical reactions conducted in an anhydrous environment." @maxplanckpress Pic: @MpiciPotsdam H. Zhang https://t.co/Rz50cDMZ8T

#mymachineandme Jens Bremer, PhD student, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems: “Hooked on a crane, the 960 kg LAUDA ITH 350 thermostat hovers through our pilot plant hall. This way, our MPI staff (engineers, mechanics and electricians) have successfully brought the thermostat to its final destination. Its unique design should help me to speed-up chemical reactors and, thus, to operate them as flexible as cars. In the future, this will be essential to respond reliably to volatile energy supplies within chemical production chains. Cooled by the LAUDA thermostat, our final pilot plant is intended to produce synthetic methane from renewable hydrogen and carbon dioxide with start-up times of less than ten minutes.”

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This is a cryostat. It can cool down to 7 mK, only 0.007 degrees above absolute zero. Johannes Zirkelbach from Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen utilizes its power to research the interactions between light and matter by investigating single molecules embedded in a crystal.