Technische Universität München; Lehrstuhl für Energiewirtschaft und Anwendungstechnik, EWA

Apparatus:

• Test benches for batteries, fuel cells, drives/pumps, heat generators/boilers,
• Model room,
• Softwaresimulation of energetic plants,
• Database on cumulative energy expenditure.

  Cooperation center: Research Center for Energy Economics e.V. Info: http://www.ffe.de

• Structural analyses of energy demand: Energy and environmental analyses of supply structures consumer sectors and application areas with regard to technical economic, user-related and climatic influences, such as seasonal, weekly and diurnal characteristics of consumption
• Rational energy use and regenerative energy use: Energy balance of plants and equipment, energy-optimized component sizing . Process selection and operation management for plants, technical processes, buildings and energy converters for direct and indirect solar energy use, taking into account energy supply and usage requirements. Load management Development of supply concepts.
• Operational performance of electrical energy storage systems: Investigation and development of test procedures for the operation of electrochemical and electromechanical energy storage devices in mobile and in stationary applications. Application criteria and evaluation issues for electric vehicles. Hybrid vehicle Participation in the special research area "Environmentally friendly drive technology for vehicles" . Battery selection and dimensioning, metrological investigation on the test bench and vehicle, holistic energy, material and emission balance.
• Cumulative energy expenditure: Recording and analysis of process chains Process and finishing stages in the manufacture Use and disposal of products and product groups. Evaluation issues in economic goods and energy services using environmentally relevant parameters such as energy, resource consumption, emissions, etc.
• Building simulation: Capture and simulation of the interrelationships of building physics, utility and occupancy-related influences to determine building energy budgets and performance response. Space conditioning of residential and commercial buildings with systems for heating, ventilation, air conditioning and heat recovery.
• Electrical process technology: Investigation of process technologies and plant systems in the fields of conductive, inductive and capacitive heating, microwave heating, laser, electron beam and plasma heating Development of new electrothermal processes.

Info: http://www.ewk.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de/forschung/index.html