IntegrCiTy – Decision-support environment for planning and integrating multi-energy networks and low-carbon resources in cities
The global objective of the project reads twofold: IntegrCiTy aims at providing a tool-box for evaluating interoperability and synergies among existing and future energy infrastructures components, through integrated modelling and multi-network simulation. Backbone of the toolbox is a co-simulation platform allowing model interaction and data exchange to dynamically link energy demand with supply. The open […]
CityCalc – Energieplanungs- und Bewertungsinstrument für den Städtebau
Motivation In the last decades the focus in energy planning mainly has been on individual buildings. Due to this fact current energy planning and assessment tools for early design stages (urban planning, architectural competitions) do not take into account the mutual interactions of buildings such as shading and shadowing due to the surroundings. A great […]
MeQuSo – Development of methods for quality as-sessment of large solar thermal plants under real operating conditions
Heat consumers of large solar thermal plants usually demand guaranteed minimum yields from the plant builder or operator. In solar contracting, operator and customer agree on the heat price beforehand. This places high demands on the technical and economic planning reliability. The correct forecast of the solar yield is hindered considerably by the uncertainty about […]
CREATE – Compact REtrofit Advanced Thermal Energy Storage
DEVELOPMENT OF THE CREATE SYSTEMThe developed CREATE system features a modular prismatic storage module design, optimised towards compactness allowing the use of available volume in a building up to 21% more effectively than up to now used cylindrical closed storage systems. The storage material used is granulated potassium carbonate (K2CO3) and in the scope of […]
SaLüH! – Retrofitting residential buildings with small flats – affordable technical solutions for ventilation, heating and hot water
Experience shows that for multi-family houses, a complete renovation including conversion to central heating and DHW systems is hardly possible. Measures inside the inhibited flats are often associated with number of complications (technical, legal, financial). Thus the centralization of ventilation, heating and domestic hot water (DHW) is often dropped. Unfortunately energy and cost efficient decentralized […]
EnergyCityConcepts
The project EnergyCityConcepts rises to the challenge of decentralized energy infrastructures on the level of municipalities, small cities and city quarters to increase regional and national value added as well as the increase of supply guarantee. It is comprehensible that to reach ambitious climate targets, a combination between urban planning and energy planning (urban and […]
HOTSPOTS – Holistic thermographic screening of urban physical objects at transient scales
To improve a city effectively and understand its optimization potentials detailed knowledge on the “as-is” situation is mandatory and a prerequisite. So far an integrated and city wide data basis with up-to date information is frequently missing or fragmented. As core element of the project proposal we introduce a city-wide thermal data acquisition from aerial […]
RESPIRE – REtrofitting School buildings- Planning wIth StakeholdeR Engagement
This project aims at increasing the energy efficiency by evolving concepts for high quality retrofitting for schools. Also the comfort of the end-users has to be ensured, by applying approved solutions for ventilation, acoustics, day light use and also protection against overheating. This project will be the basis for sustainable educational institutions that offer good […]
AMRE*MD – Ammonium recovery from digestate of biogas plants via Membrane distillation
The aim of the project AMRE * MD is to recover the ammonium nitrogen which is contained in the liquid fraction of the digestate of the biogas production by the novel membrane distillation (MD) process. The obtained nitrogen can be made available again either as fertilizer in better storable and transportable form or as a […]
ENPRO – Renewable process heat – Integration of solar heat and heat pumps in industrial processes
There are efforts, both at national and at European level, to increase energy efficiency in industrial processes and the share of renewable primary energy sources therein. Renewable technologies, such as solar heat and heat pumps, are in some cases used to supply heat to industrial processes. However, there are still significant barriers preventing the use […]