HOTSPOTS enables new insights and perspectives for city development. According to the project idea innovations in acquisition and sensing as well as densification of georeferenced city related data are supplemented by novel processing chains in city data analytics.
The aim of the project AMRE * MD is to efficiently remove and recover ammonium nitrogen which is contained in digestate of biogas plants via membrane distillation.
Besides the recovery of the resource ammonium, logistical problems will be simplified, such as storage and transportation and disposal costs will be reduced, same as the reduction of environmental damage to water and air. Moreover additional revenues are generated.
Within the project "EnPro" planning directives are elaborated to reduce barriers for an efficient and cost-effective integration of solar heat and heat pumps in industry.
Within this research project a concept for resource efficient redensification and renovation of large-scale residential buildings with standardised, prefabricated modules will be generated.
Development of methodologies and tools for the holistic analysis, design and optimization of cross-sectional energy systems considering existing (energy) infrastructures and local ressources
The AEE INTEC has developed a comprehensive energy optimization concept for the Ottakringer brewery. In addition to the integration of a large solar thermal system into the existing hot water system, the heat recovery from a chiller was designed (concept development, basic engineering, funding application) and the implementation accompanied.
AEE INTEC has developed a concept for the conversion of the steam supply (based on fossil oil) to a district heating / hot water supply (provided by biomass) for the brewery Murau. Based on this implementation concept, the conversion of thermal energy was promoted and completed in May 2014. The tasks of AEE INTEC were the detailed development of the energy supply, process conversion (from steam to hot water supply), energy savings and support throughout the implementation phase (concept development, basic engineering, solicitation and assistance with the funding application).
The project energy4buildings has its focus on thermally driven heatpumps and chillers and following the principle hardware-in-the-loop it is an innovative step for the laboratories of AEE INTEC and FH Burgenland combining hardware (e.g. chillers) and software (e.g. the simulation tool TRNSYS).
The project targets the development of concepts to optimize the cost and energy optimized heating (and where required cooling) using geothermic (with heat pumps) and photovoltaic in an urban densely-built-up development area. Special weight is given to storage technologies and building services engineering.
Within the project En-RecoTreat, the membrane distillation technology is further developed for the use of waste water treatment. Thereby ammonia is separated and recovered from the municipal waste-water using energy efficient membrane distillation processes. The direct waste-water concentration also aims to replace the exergy-intensive process of aerobic waste-water treatment by anaerobic high-performance reactors which produce energy in the form of biogas. The integration of the membrane distillation in the waste-water treatment leads to the development of an optimized control-strategy and an overall energy concept for municipal waste-water treatment plants.