Csepei, Lénárd-István Dr.

Innovative Synthesis Processes | Technical Chemistry

Since 2013, Lénárd Csepei has been working at Fraunhofer IGB BioCat, Straubing branch where he currently coordinates the heterogeneous catalysis project portfolio. Literally as well as figuratively following in the footsteps of Joseph von Fraunhofer, he turned his attention to technology transfer for power-to-X and CO₂ conversion processes. He acquired and worked on several national and EU H2020 projects. Besides that, he also carried out 15 consulting projects serving different industrial branches: flavors & fragrances, energy, agrochemicals, food & feed, aviation and waste management.

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Research focus
Heterogeneous catalytic processes

Methanol, ethylene, propylene and their value chain

Ammonia synthesis

Combined chemical and biotechnological processes

Techno-economic analysis on renewable synthesis processes

Curriculum vitae

Professional career
Since 2013	Senior scientist at Fraunhofer IGB, BioCat in Straubing
2011 – 2013	Scientist at the Institute of Power Engineering, Technical University in Dresden
2007 – 2011	PhD degree in Heterogeneous Catalysis, Fritz-Haber Institute of Max-Planck Society in Berlin
2005 – 2006	Master degree in Applied Electrochemistry, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca in Romania
2001 – 2005	Diploma degree in Chemistry, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca in Romania

Major projects

Project title	Project title long	Funding source	Period
EcoFuel	Renewable electricity-based, cyclic and economic production of fuel	EU	January 2021 – December 2023
ZENK	Center for sustainable fuels		Since 2021
PtM	Power-to-Methanol	BMBF	2018 – 2021
Green Ammonia	Production of green ammonia in Morocco	Industry project	November 2018 – July 2020
CO₂EXIDE	CO2-based electrosynthesis of ethylene oxide	EU	January 2018 – December 2020
PFIFF / PFIFFIG	Polymer fibers from biobased furanoates (targeting industrial grade)	BMBF	October 2017 – January 2024
eleMeMe	Decentralized decoupling of power generation and energy supply	BMWi	March 2017 – February 2020
CELBICON	Cost-effective carbon dioxide conversion into chemicals	EU	March 2016 – November 2019
Electricity as a Raw Material	Fraunhofer Lighthouse Project	Fraunhofer	August 2015 – July 2018
Center for Energy Storage		Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Wirtschaft, Landesentwicklung und Energie	2012 – 2018

Publications

Jahr Year	Titel/Autor:in Title/Author	Publikationstyp Publication Type
2025	Green Ammonia as a Decentralized, Cross-Sector Energy Vector for the German Energy Transition Watermann, Clara; Nitsche, Tim; Csepei, Lénárd-Istvan; Menne, Andreas; Zeidler-Fandrich, Barbara	Zeitschriftenaufsatz Journal Article
2025	Project EcoFuel: Renewable Electricity-Based, Cyclic and Economic Production of Fuel Bachler, Johann; Wiesner-Fleischer, Kerstin; Fleischer, Maximilian M.; Pastusiak, Remigiusz; Simon, Elfriede; Makaruk, Aleksander; Filippi, Michael; Möller, Tim; Ju, Wen; Strasser, Peter; Corbos, Elena Cristina; Hodges, Toby; Smith, Joost; Kortus, Christian; Sacher, Thomas; Cros, Nathalie; Vogelgsang, Ferdinand; Csepei, Lénárd-Istvan; Roth, Arne	Konferenzbeitrag Conference Paper
2022	Anodic production of hydrogen peroxide using commercial carbon materials Pangotra, Dhananjai; Csepei, Lénárd-Istvan; Roth, Arne; Ponce de León, C.; Sieber, Volker; Vieira Dessoy Maciel, Luciana	Zeitschriftenaufsatz Journal Article
2022	Anodic generation of hydrogen peroxide in continuous flow Pangotra, Dhananjai; Csepei, Lénárd-Istvan; Roth, Arne; Sieber, Volker; Vieira Dessoy Maciel, Luciana	Zeitschriftenaufsatz Journal Article
2021	Dezentrale Entkopplung von Stromerzeugung und Energieversorgung durch Kopplung von onsite-elektrochemischer Methanolerzeugung und Methanolbrennstoffzellen - eleMeMe. Schlussbericht Csepei, L.-I.; Deinert, L.; Roth, A.; Vieira, L.; Wössner, M.	Bericht Report
2019	Electrochemical synthesis of hydrogen peroxide from water and oxygen Perry, Samuel C.; Pangotra, Dhananjai; Vieira, Luciana; Csepei, Lénárd-István; Sieber, Volker; Wang, Ling; Ponce de León, Carlos; Walsh, Frank C.	Zeitschriftenaufsatz Journal Article
2018	Innovative cascade processes for the CO2 conversion into fuels and chemicals Csepei, Lénárd-István; Gärtner, Tobias; Schmid, Jochen; Sieber, Volker	Zeitschriftenaufsatz Journal Article
2017	Regenerative Synthese von chemischen Energiespeichern und Feinchemikalien Csepei, Lénéard István; Steffler, Fabian; Gärtner, Tobias; Sieber, Volker	Patent
2017	Characterization of biomimetic cofactors according to stability, redox potentials, and enzymatic conversion by NADH oxidase from Lactobacillus pentosus Nowak, C.; Pick, A.; Csepei, L.-I.; Sieber, V.	Zeitschriftenaufsatz Journal Article
2015	Is starch only a visual indicator for iodine in the Briggs-Rauscher oscillating reaction? Csepei, Lénárd-István; Bolla, Csaba	Zeitschriftenaufsatz Journal Article
2014	The reaction network in propane oxidation over phase-pure MoVTeNb M1 oxide catalysts Naumann d'Alnoncourt, Raoul; Csepei, Lénárd-István; Hävecker, Michael; Girgsdies, Frank; Schuster, Manfred E.; Schlögl, Robert; Trunschke, Annette	Zeitschriftenaufsatz Journal Article

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Csepei, Lénárd-István Dr.

Innovative Synthesis Processes | Technical Chemistry

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Curriculum vitae

Professional career

Major projects

Publications

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