Technology Offers
- Plant engineering
- Energy technology
- Energy and water supply
- Measurement technology
- Process and production engineering
High-temperature heat storage for process heat
KIT's liquid metal-based heat storage system can store heat efficiently and sustainably at more than 500 degrees Celsius. The thermal energy can be reused as required.
- Analytics
- Drive technology
- Automotive industry
- Automation / IT
- Printing industry
- Plant engineering
- Communication and data transmission
- Mechanical engineering
- Measurement technology
- Microtechnology / precision mechanics
Integrating sensors into machine components
Machine components with integrated sensors enable optimized monitoring of production systems. The KIT technology thus increases the informative value of the measurement data.
- Environmental technology
- Process and production engineering
- Energy and water supply
- Energy technology
- Plant engineering
- Mechanical engineering
- Coating technology
Production of pipes with topographical internal structures
Process for manufacturing heat exchanger tubes with arbitrarily complex topographical internal structures for higher heat transfer by increasing turbulence.
- Plant engineering
- Automation / IT
- Automotive industry
- Printing industry
- Communication and data transmission
- Mechanical engineering
- Simulation and data processing
- Software and IT
- Process and production engineering
Automate material flow simulations
The KIT's open source Python package "prodsys" automates material flow simulations to optimize discrete production systems.
With biohybrid composite material to 3D cell culture model
KIT has developed a unique process to produce customized three-dimensional composite materials for the coating of culture vessels. The biohybrid materials have precisely controllable mechanical properties.
- Plant engineering
- Electrical engineering
- Mechanical engineering
- Process and production engineering
- Measurement technology
Dry battery electrodes efficiently and modularly
Inline measurement technology and customizable air routing ensure data-based control of drying systems and thus reduce rejects and set-up times.
Thermal validation with dummy battery cell
A battery cell model from KIT enables safe and efficient thermal evaluation of battery systems under real conditions.
- Aerospace industry
- Automotive industry
- Electrical engineering
- Energy and water supply
- Energy technology
- Measurement technology
- Mechanical engineering
- Process and production engineering
- Automation / IT
- Simulation and data processing
Performance test for fuel cell systems
A new KIT fuel cell test bench simplifies the testing of complete fuel cell systems with interchangeable subcomponents.
- Automotive industry
- Building industry
- Coating technology
- Aerospace industry
- Raw material and textile industry
- Polymer industry
Measuring device for stress states in textiles
Biaxial test facility at KIT measures arbitrary stress and distortion states in flat membrane materials such as textiles and films.
- Coating technology
- Chemical industry
- Polymer industry
- Raw material and textile industry
- Process and production engineering
Intermetals as a catalytically active layer
Intermetallic sputtering targets from KIT improve the reproducible coating of microstructured surfaces using DC magnetron sputtering. The thin catalytic layers make the hydrogenation of acetylene, for example, even more efficient.