Solar energy – a significant economic factor
Austria is the fourth-largest user of thermal solar energy worldwide after Cyprus, Israel and Greece — measured as the installed capacity per inhabitant. Austria’s leading position can be seen, however, not only in the installation of solar plants, but also in the leading role which Austria’s solar industry has achieved during the last ten years; […]
Further education
Die AEE INTEC veranstaltet Exkursionen, Seminare, Tagungen, Symposien und Workshops, zu Niedrigenergie- und Passivhäusern, zu Technologien zur Energieeffizienzsteigerung sowie zur biologischen Abwasserreinigung. Referenten der Veranstaltungen sind sowohl externe Experten aus Wissenschaft und Forschung, erfahrene Praktiker und Mitarbeiter der AEE INTEC. Das Symposium „Gleisdorf SOLAR“, das in einem zweijährigen Rhythmus durchgeführt wird, ist seit der Erstveranstaltung […]
Solar Thermal Polymer Collectors with Overheating Protection
Polymeric materials offer a significant cost-reduction potential for solar thermal collectors and may thus benefit a broader utilization of solar energy for various heating purposes. However, as the long-term service temperature of cost-efficient plastics is limited for potential applications in solar absorbers an appropriate design including overheating protection is essential. The energy flux in all-polymeric […]
Cooling retrofit concepts for offices and administrative buildings – COOLSAN
A challenge in particular would be to integrate the problematic of “creating a comfortable temperature at workplaces” in the building standards. The increasing application of computer and office accessories and high solar loads lead to an obvious increase of room temperatures and comfort limits, which leads to interference of the work productivity of the employees. […]
Integrating Environmentally Responsive Elements in Buildings (ENERBUILD)
The energy requirement for heating, air conditioning and ventilation of buildings in industrial countries represent more than 30% of the entire primary energy demand. Therefore beside the sectors transport and agriculture the building sector is a main contributor to the greenhouse emission CO2. These facts as well as the set goals in the Kyoto agreement […]
Development of an interactive vocational Web training tool for the take-off of the buildings DIRECTIVE 2002/91/EC (EEBD)
Besides the technical abilities to implement energy efficiency in an economically reasonable way, it is particular important to have qualified employees (from planners to building operators) available. The goal of this project is thereby to develop an internet based information and training platform, which should make it possible for experts to better understand and implement […]
Systematic renovation of social housing
From the discussion of different possibilities of social housing retrofitting, it is shown in this study that it this cannot be done without an holistic context. The methodical approach of a systematic procedure allowed to combine different dimensions in an interdisciplinary way in order to develop the optimal solution. An optimum is characterised by a […]
PROCESOL II – Solar thermal process heating coupled with heat recovery technologies in industrial applications
The targeted production companies are the ones, which need process heat at a temperature level of 40°C to 90°C. These temperatures can be achieved with good efficiencies using common solar thermal collectors like flat plate collectors or evacuated tube collectors. One of the most important lessons learnt from previous project dealing with solar thermal process […]
Promotion of “sustainable cooling” in the service building sector (KeepCool)
The target sector of the project are both newly constructed and existing service buildings (both public and private sector). Since the building owners are the driving force in the investment& process, the project focuses on convincing building owners in the benefits of sustainable cooling solutions through marketing and dissemination of already existing technologies, knowledge and […]
ST-ESCOs – Development of pilot Solar Thermal Energy Service Companies
The ST-ESCOs can completely remove the above mentioned barriers, thus opening the way for a rapid expansion of solar thermal installations throughout Europe in all potential sectors (residential, services and industry), both private and public by selling the solar energy (and not necessarily the solar plant) at a competitive price and by carrying out the […]