Technology Offers
- Plant engineering
- Automation / IT
- Filter technology
- Polymer industry
- Food industry
- Optical Industry
- Pharmaceutical industry
- Raw material and textile industry
- Process and production engineering
- Electrical engineering
Sensor-based sorting without compressed air
With a new optical sorter based on an area-scan camera and an array of mechanical actuators, bulk material can be separated without compressed air with high throughput and precision.
- 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.
- Plant engineering
- Drive technology
- Automotive industry
- Building industry
- Polymer industry
- Mechanical engineering
- Process and production engineering
Inspecting surfaces with machine learning
A method has been developed at KIT to automatically evaluate surface states of objects using video images, neural networks, and machine learning. Intelligent surface inspection can improve defect inspection.
- Chemical industry
- Polymer industry
- Raw material and textile industry
- Process and production engineering
Ethylene-free synthesis of polyethylene
New synthesis route for the production of functionalized polyethylene facilitates product development in polymer chemistry. Without the use of ethylene gas, easy feasibility in the laboratory is given.
- Plant engineering
- Automotive industry
- Printing industry
- Polymer industry
- Process and production engineering
- Aerospace industry
3D microwave printer for continuous fiber reinforced polymer
A new system for additive manufacturing by using microwave heating to print components made of continuous fiber reinforced composites quickly and efficiently.
- Coating technology
- Polymer industry
- Process and production engineering
- Printing industry
- Microtechnology / precision mechanics
Pure white on polymer basis
Microstructured, porous polymer films and powders produce white coloration for industrial products as a non-toxic alternative to titanium dioxide.
- Coating technology
- Polymer industry
- Process and production engineering
- Microtechnology / precision mechanics
- Plant engineering
- Raw material and textile industry
Seamless micro embossing of material webs
Roll-to-roll process enables precise and continuous microstructuring of polymers.
- Electrical engineering
- Coating technology
- Printing industry
- Polymer industry
- Process and production engineering
- Raw material and textile industry
- Microtechnology / precision mechanics
Printing flexible electronics
Highly conductive ink with reduced metallic particle content enables the additive production of highly stretchable electronics for soft electronic applications.
- Automotive industry
- Chemical industry
- Energy technology
- Polymer industry
- Mechanical engineering
- Food industry
- Process and production engineering
- Simulation and data processing
- Software and IT
- Drive technology
Simulate atomization at multiple scales
Virtual test bench using particle-based hydrodynamics provides improved simulation and realistic visualization of two-phase flows during atomization.