World's first agile production facility for battery cells opened

Close cooperation between science and industry

11-Oct-2024 - Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have set up an agile battery cell production facility in order to be able to manufacture battery cells - for example for electromobility or power tools - more flexibly in the future. Using highly flexible robot-based automation, they have ...

EU project SMHYLES develops novel salt- and water-based hybrid energy storage systems (HESS) on an industrial scale

The consortium includes 16 partners from seven countries

29-Feb-2024 - One of the greatest challenges of the 21st century is the transition to climate-neutral energy sources. Here, reliable energy storage plays a key role, as production and load peaks in the electricity grid require flexible storage systems that can be used for a wide range of applications. The ...

A fast, automated way of evaluating battery data and making it available to AI processes

Start-up supports companies develop the ideal battery to meet future needs

08-Nov-2021 - Electrochemical energy storage systems and fuel cell technologies hold two of the keys to making a successful transition to alternative sources of energy. Batalyse GmbH, a spin-off of the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology ICT, is using modular software packages to automate capturing, ...

Programmable insulation materials

19-Oct-2020 - Innovative insulating materials made of shape memory polymers are developed and tested by the Fraunhofer Institutes for Applied Polymer Research IAP, for Chemical Technology ICT and for Building Physics IBP within the Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence Programmable Materials CPM. The high-tech ...

Directly-cooled electric motor made from polymer materials

Novel cooling concept for eco-friendly mobility

04-Feb-2019 - The two key components of an electric drive train are the electric motor and the battery. And there are three issues that play a particularly important role when it comes to using an electric motor for eco-friendly mobility: high power density, a compact configuration that fits snugly within the ...

Rapid spectroscopic process analysis

Empowers development and control of flexible production processes

12-Jun-2018 - Global competition in the chemical industry, with increasingly dynamic markets and product cycles, requires shorter process development times and flexible and efficient production processes. By combining micro chemical engineering and spectroscopic process analysis in different spectral ranges, ...

Reaction calorimetry in microreactors

12-Jun-2018 - At Achema 2018 the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology will demonstrate the latest gen-eration of continuous reaction calorimeters. These permit rapid screening of thermokinetic data, making kinetic constants and safety-relevant data available in the early stages of process ...

Fuel and chemicals from steel plant exhaust gases

03-Jul-2015 - Carbon monoxide-rich exhaust gases from steel plants are only being reclaimed to a minor extent as power or heat. Fraunhofer researchers have developed a new recycling process for this materially unused carbon resource: They successfully produced fuel and specialty chemicals from these exhaust ...

A coating that protects against heat and oxidation

25-Nov-2014 - Gases don't conduct heat as well as solids do. Cellular or aerated concretes take advantage of this effect, which experts call "gas-phase insulation". The heat barrier is achieved by air encased in the cavities of the concrete. But gas-phase insulation has far greater potential than keeping our ...

Microreactors to produce explosive materials

01-Jun-2012 - If the task is to tunnel through a mountain, workers turn to explosives: the 15-kilometer-long Gotthard Tunnel, for instance, was created by blasting through the rock with explosive gelatin made largely out of the nitroglycerine – better-known as dynamite. Producing these explosives calls for ...