Technology Offers
- Medicine and healthcare
- Food industry
- Pharmaceutical industry
- Coating technology
- Process and production engineering
- Safety technology
- Biotechnology
- Analytics
Counterfeit protecting organic tag against product piracy
With KIT's enzyme-based marking technology, companies can ensure that the authenticity of their products can be proven beyond doubt and thus protect themselves against counterfeiting.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.