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How can factories adapt autonomously to constantly changing conditions? How can concrete be produced in a resource- and climate-friendly way? How do we create storage capacity for the expansion of renewable energies?
“Research for a sustainable future”
The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) develops solutions for a wide range of challenges. Under the title “Research for a Sustainable Future”, KIT will be showing exhibits and presentations at the Hannover Messe from April 22nd to 26th, 2024 in the Future Hub (Hall 2, Stand B35) and at the Energy Solutions (Hall 13, Stand C76) .
KIT is also represented at the Baden-Württemberg international stand, at other stands and in the conference program.
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Greentech x Hannover Fair. Of course, KIT is represented at the industrial trade fair with sustainable solutions and innovations against the climate crisis. Photo: Amadeus Bramsiepe, KIT
Information about the KIT stands and exhibits can also be found in the KIT’s digital press kit for the Hannover Messe 2024.
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“A more sustainable industry is not only ecologically sensible and necessary, it also significantly advances technology development in our country: in resource-saving production processes as well as in the energy supply and automation of industrial processes.
KIT researchers are working across disciplines on appropriate solutions. We are very pleased to be showing some of them in Hanover this year too,” says Professor Oliver Kraft, Vice President Research, representing the President of KIT.
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“Research and innovation go hand in hand at KIT. Only in this close interaction and in exchange with the economy can we succeed in the transformation towards a more sustainable industry. “We have to fundamentally rethink key points: away from a previously predominantly linear economy towards the circular factory of the future, which we are presenting at the Hannover Messe,” says Professor Thomas Hirth, Vice President Transfer and International Affairs at KIT.
The KIT in the future Hub (Halle 2, Stand B35)
Im Future Hub (Hall 2, Stand B35), KIT and the FZI Research Center for Information Technology, an innovation partner of KIT, will present their projects at a joint stand.
AgiProbot: Mobile learning robots with multi-sensor technology for an agile production system
The aim of the AgiProbot project is to enable factories to adapt autonomously to constantly changing conditions. Remanufacturing represents an ideal application: used products are brought up to the quality standard of new products through dismantling, refurbishment and reassembly so that they can be reused. Remanufacturing thus contributes to a sustainable circular economy. KIT demonstrates how the robots in AgiProbot learn using two tasks: inspection of used products and recording of disassembly processes. About the video: Smart robots for agile production – the AgiProbot project
AgiProbot: Inspection of used products
The diagnosis assesses whether a used product can be refurbished and reused. In AgiProbot, the initial inspection of used products, which would otherwise be carried out by humans, is automated at a diagnosis station. To do this, the station uses optical measurement technology such as a robot-guided camera system and artificial intelligence methods. In this way, the station can learn to independently determine the condition and defects.
AgiProbot: Capturing and interpreting disassembly processes
A specially constructed station is used to observe people during manual dismantling. The sensors used can be used to record eye and gaze movements as well as human posture, arm and hand movements in combination with tools and product components used, as well as individual objects on the work mat. This data serves as input for programming a robot through demonstration. The aim is automated dismantling.
Net-Zero Circular Concrete: circular economy for concrete
An innovative circular process makes it possible to produce concrete in a resource- and climate-friendly manner. For this purpose, old concrete from the demolition of buildings is broken up and sorted into coarse and fine parts. After adding limestone and using moderate process temperatures, a binder is produced from the fine fraction.
The coarse portion absorbs the carbon dioxide (CO2) produced in the process and is used together with the binder to produce new concrete. A pilot plant is currently being built at KIT to create the know-how for producing larger quantities.
ANYMOS: Data security in networked mobility
Whether navigation systems or ticket purchases via smartphone – services for connected mobility require data. How can it be ensured that the data is used in such a way that it fulfills its purpose but does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about individuals?
The competence cluster “Anonymization for Networked Mobility Systems” (ANYMOS), which KIT and the FZI Research Center for Information Technology, an innovation partner of KIT, are jointly presenting, deals with this question. The researchers are investigating what requirements must be placed on methods of anonymization and determining the circumstances under which anonymized data could become individual data again.
This should result in concrete applications, such as ticket systems that accurately calculate the distance traveled without revealing which route the person took.
Research to Business – Technologieangebote des KIT
The KIT technology exchange is also represented at the stand in the Future Hub with 40 other offers. It shows innovations from KIT that can result in marketable products and processes.
KIT at Energy Solutions (Hall 13, Stand C76)
Both Energy Solutions is about energy storage, which is of crucial importance in the sustainable restructuring of the energy system and in the expansion of renewable energies. KIT shows developments for various applications, for power and heat supply as well as for industry.
Liquid metals as heat carriers
With thermal energy storage, energy for industrial high-temperature processes, for example in the chemical industry or metal processing, can be stored directly in the form of heat based on supply and demand. Liquid metals allow heat to be stored in a very high temperature range.
They are combined with ceramic beads that have high storage density and long-term storage ability. A pilot plant is intended to demonstrate the operation of a liquid metal-based heat storage system.
BiFlow: Hybrid storage system for electricity and heat supply
The energy transition with the expansion of renewable energies requires large storage capacities. The BiFlow project is creating a hybrid storage system that combines the specific advantages of the lithium-ion battery and the redox flow battery. In addition, the electrolyte tanks of the redox flow battery serve as heat storage, which increases the overall efficiency of the system. This opens up new possibilities for cost- and space-efficient electricity-heat coupling.
Litona: Materials for sustainable sodium-ion batteries
The start-up Litona, spun off from KIT, develops energy storage materials for sodium-ion battery cells. Because they can be manufactured using cheap and readily available raw materials, sodium-based batteries could help reduce the cost of batteries in the future and reduce Europe’s dependence on raw material imports. Litona is currently primarily concerned with the Prussian-White analogues.
These storage materials are particularly interesting for stationary energy storage and for automotive applications. To the video: Battery material for the sodium-ion revolution
Safe hydrogen storage
Hydrogen (H2) is suitable as a clean, efficient and reliable energy source for many applications. KIT has more than 30 years of experience in research on H2 safety. With the HYKA hydrogen test center, it has globally unique infrastructure for experiments on different release and combustion scenarios.
Using the PET pipe, researchers are investigating turbulent combustion processes in hydrogen-air mixtures in partially enclosed geometries, as would be expected from a leaky H2 storage tank in real rooms with doors and windows. In addition to the experiments, the researchers are developing 3D simulation programs that can be used to specifically check and improve security situations.
Research to Business – Technologieangebote des KIT
The KIT technology exchange is also represented at the Energy Solutions stand with 32 other offers. It shows innovations from KIT that can result in marketable products and processes.
Greentech: KIT at other themed stands
The Innovation Campus Mobility of the Future (ICM) of the University of Stuttgart and KIT will provide insights into cutting-edge research for sustainable and digitalized production and mobility at the Baden-Württemberg international stand (Hall 12, Stand D15). The ICM’s hydrogen world includes exhibits and projects from the fuel cell process chain. The RoboCable project shows a robot that uses artificial intelligence to automatically lay cables and cable harnesses. On the demonstrator DeVee, a light electric vehicle, various subsystems for a vehicle concept of the future can be experienced.
At the stand of Baden-Württemberg international
The Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage Ulm & Karlsruhe (CELEST) will also be presenting itself at the Baden-Württemberg international stand (Hall 12, Stand D15). KIT, the University of Ulm and the Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg (ZSW) work together in CELEST, Germany’s largest platform for electrochemical storage.
The project AppLHy!, represented with an exhibit at the stand of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Hall 2, Stand A28), deals with the design and implementation of a combined transport route for liquid hydrogen and electrical energy. The electricity will be transmitted using high-temperature superconductors.
Die KIT founding company (Hall 2, Stand D30) offers KIT students and employees the opportunity to specifically deal with the topics of starting a business and entrepreneurship. It also offers advice, teaching and further training events.
Greentech research: KIT in the conference program
Tech Transfer Conference Stage (Halle 2, Stand B02)
Tuesday, April 23, 2024, 1:55 p.m: Panel discussion: What responsibility does research have for a sustainable future? Experts from information technology, mobility and research transfer discuss the role and responsibility of science in the face of climate change, scarcity of resources and impacts on society. The focus is primarily on the very rapidly developing use of artificial intelligence. Participants are Ada Streb, FZI Research Center for Computer Science, Head of the Capital Office and Head of Innovation, Strategy and Transfer; Dr. Alexander Viehl, FZI, Head of Intelligent Systems and Production Engineering; Dr. Sandra Kauffmann-Weiß, KIT, Managing Director InnovationsCampus Mobility of the Future and Dr. Walter Tromm, spokesman for the KIT Energy Center. The moderation is taken over by Dr. Wolfgang Breh, Managing Director of the KIT Energy Center.
Tuesday, April 23, 2024, 2:50 p.m.: Lecture: Net-Zero Circular Concrete by Dr. Peter Stemmermann, Institute for Technical Chemistry at KIT. Lecture in English with live translation.
Wednesday, April 24, 2024, 10:25 a.m.: Lecture: SFB 1574 – The circular factory for the eternal product by Manuel Zaremski, Institute for Ergonomics and Business Organization at KIT
ENERGY 4.0 Academy (Halle 12, Stand D35/26)
Tuesday, April 23, 2024, 2:20 p.m.: Lecture: New thermal coupling system for stationary electrical energy storage in the building sector by Dr. Christian Kupper, KIT Electrical Engineering Institute