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.
- 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.
- Plant engineering
- Automation / IT
- Process and production engineering
- Energy technology
- Electrical engineering
Format-flexible and continuous cell stack assembly
A new plant concept from KIT enables the flexible and continuous production of cell stacks in individual formats. A format change is possible without changing tools.
- 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.
- Electrical engineering
- Process and production engineering
- Microtechnology / precision mechanics
- Chemical industry
- Raw material and textile industry
Mechanochemically induced recycling of lithium-ion batteries
With a new recycling process developed by KIT, lithium can be efficiently reclaimed from the cathode material of old batteries without irreversible contamination and environmental damage.
- 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.
Polyhedral deformation of metal panels with differential pressure
A novel technique uses differential pressure to produce polyhedral surfaces from flat cladding panel without complex forming technology.
- Coating technology
- Electrical engineering
- Printing industry
- Process and production engineering
- Communication and data transmission
- Microtechnology / precision mechanics
- Measurement technology
New qubit application for quantum circuits
A method for the fabrication of superconducting Josephson junctions has been developed at KIT. The production of the new qubits by means of single-layer evaporation is significantly simpler than previously used methods.
- Biotechnology
- Plant engineering
- Chemical industry
- Pharmaceutical industry
- Food industry
- Medicine and healthcare
- Process and production engineering
- Analytics
Continuous fermentation of synthesis gas
A novel reactor design enables the continuous fermentation of synthesis gas under high pressure. In particular, parameter studies on fermentation can be carried out with the prototype.
- 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.