Equipment
Sector Coupling
- Electrical storages and grids
- District storage 72 kW and 330 kWh incl. weather station (Epplas/Hof)
- Electrical load and generation measurement (PV) via first-generation smart meter in about 30 participant households
- Arzberg Testing Site
- Battery testing site with 20 kW DC power supply and sink
- Weather station with direct radiation sensor and SkyCam
- About 50 kWp of PV generators using different module technologies
- Redox flow battery cluster with 90 kW and 390 kWh
Storage Technology
- Calorimetry: DSC, STA, Calvet and T-History calorimeters
- Temperature range from -80 to 1,500 °C
- Sample sizes between about 5 mg and 30 g
- Measurements according to the guidelines of RAL-PCM Guetegemeinschaft PCM e. V.
- Cycling apparatus for solid-liquid PCM
- Temperature range from -40 to 200 °C
- Sample size of about 60 ml
- 2 to 3 thermal cycles per day
- Testing setups for characterisation of heat exchangers and latent heat storages
- Temperature range from -10 to 95 °C
- Volume flow up to 3 m3/h
- Thermal power up to 25 kW heating/cooling
- Polarisation microscope
- Programmable heating and cooling stage for measurements from -190 to 400 °C
- Density measurement for non-porous solids and liquids
- Temperature range from -30 to 90 °C
- Testing setups for determination of water absorption capacity of solid sorbents
- Dew point temperatures up to 70 °C
- Ambient temperature up to 350 °C
- For sample sizes of several grams to kilograms
- Testing setup for mass transfer surfaces for liquid sorbents
- Cycling apparatus for solid sorbents
- Dew point temperatures between 5 and 70 °C
- Ambient temperature up to 300 °C
- Sample size of several hundred grams
- Adaptations to real process conditions possible
Systems Engineering
- Software for the dynamic simulation of buildings and plants (TRNSYS) as well as in-house developed software and add-ons
- System simulations using Dymola, Simulink, Matlab, and others
- Monitoring software for large data volumes
- Benchmarking solutions
- Simulation of district heat networks (STANET) and geographic information systems
- Groundwater flow models (FeFlow)
- Engineering software, e.g. EES
- Mobile measuring devices for on-site assessment of room comfort, plant and building technology: thermal imaging cameras, room climate sensors, CO2 sensors, lux meters, heat and cold meters, electricity meters, data loggers
- Particulate matter measurement technology and exhaust gas analysis
Heat Provision
- Solar testing setup and tracker
- Thermal power measurement of collectors up to 160 °C
- Thermal and electrical power (up to 1000 W short-term) of PVT collectors
- Biaxial tracking
- Thermal response testing (TRT)
- Mobile measuring equipment for determination of thermal subsurface properties (undisturbed ground temperature, thermal conductivity of the subsurface, thermal borehole resistance)
- Application: Coaxial probes, single, and double U-probes between 30 and 200 m in length
- Testing device for TRT instruments
- Triaxial cell testing setups for measuring the hydraulic conductivity of geothermal probes
- Testing setup for measurement of district heating transfer stations, residential transfer stations, and fresh water stations
- Testing setup for measuring the thermal conductivity of building materials
- Temperature control device for long-term temperature testing of insulation materials
- Climate chamber with artificial snowmaking
- Snowing of areas up to 1 m2
- Conditioning of large parts down to -20 °C
