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Our goal is to provide sustainable technologies for a society in which energy supply and material cycles are linked in a defossilized circular economy. This requires efficient solutions for the conversion, transport, storage and use of energy and energy sources.

Workshop "Urban Resource Hub" - Challenges of recycling now and in the future?KIT
"Urban Resource Hub" - What are the challenges of recycling now & in the future?

Representatives from industry, environmental authorities and academia met on March 15-16, 2023 to discuss challenges of material cycles in a circular economy.

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MTET Energy Solutions at Hannover Messe 2023
Energy Solutions at Hannover Messe 2023

KIT's Energy Lab 2.0 will be the key issue: Europe's largest research infrastructure for renewable energies will focus on real-time systems for energy techs.

KIT Press Portfolio
Battery recycling technologies at a glance - Focus topic battery productionWiley Online Library
Battery recycling technologies at a glance

Lithium-ion batteries represent a major challenge for waste management. But battery waste can also provide an interesting business opportunity...Learn more

CITplus Open Access
Winfried Kretschmann visits the Cluster of Excellence POLiS. During a visit to Ulm, the Minister President of Baden-Württemberg also informed himself about the joint battery research of KIT and Ulm University.PoLiS
Winfried Kretschmann visits the Cluster of Excellence POLiS

During a visit to Ulm, the Minister President of Baden-Württemberg also informed himself about the joint battery research of KIT and Ulm University.

KIT news in German
Nicolas Zippelius MdB visited the Energy Lab to learn more about research & key issues of PtX technologies, climate-neutral and energy-efficient cirular economy of plastics and negative emission technologies.J. Knebel
Nicolas Zippelius MdB visited the Energy Lab to learn more

about research & key issues of PtX technologies, climate-neutral and energy-efficient cirular economy of plastics and negative emission technologies.

Jutta Paulus MEP visited Carbon Cycle Lab and Energy Lab 2.0 to learn more about research and key issues related to the climate-neutral and energy-efficient circular economy of plastics and Power-to-X technologiesKIT
Jutta Paulus MEP visited Carbon Cycle Lab and Energy Lab 2.0

to learn more about research & key issues related to climate-neutral & energy-efficient circular economy of plastics & Power-to-X technologies.

ERC Consolidator Grant for TT-Professor Ulrich PaetzoldM. Breig, KIT
ERC Consolidator Grant for TT-Professor Ulrich Paetzold

Ulrich W. Paetzold receives funding of about two millionen euros for research on photovoltaics.

KIT news in English
Fabian Nitschke and Valentin Goldberg, guests on "Planet Wissen" in the SWR studio, classify the possibilities of lithium extraction in Germany.SWR
Geothermal: Lithium hype on the Rhine - opportunities and risks

Fabian Nitschke and Valentin Goldberg, guests on "Planet Wissen" in the SWR studio, classify the possibilities of lithium extraction in Germany.

ARD Mediathek in German

Workshop "Urban Resource Hub" - What are the challenges of recycling now and in the future?

Representatives from industry, environmental authorities and academia met on March 15-16, 2023 to discuss challenges of material cycles in a circular economy
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The current and future challenges of recycling were presented and discussed from the perspective of manufacturers, recyclers and environmental authorities.
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Together, important questions and expert knowledge were discussed in the World Café. In small groups, the participants discussed the challenges of recycling in different sectors and industries.
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Representatives from industry, public authorities and Helmholtz scientists from HZDR, HIF and KIT met to discuss the challenge of a circular economy and to develop joint research projects.

The workshop "Urban Resource Hub" took place at the ZEISS Innovation Hub focused on the current and future challenges of recycling in a circular economy from the perspective of manufacturers (Sto Group), recyclers (Nordmineral-Recycling, Heinrich Feeß GmbH, Becker Elektrorecycling Chemnitz GmbH, Remondis SE) and the Federal Environment Agency (UBA).

  • "Technology, logistics, time and money - an insight into recycling WDVS (external thermal insulation composite systems)"
  • "Building material versus waste"
  • "Legal framework of circular economy"
  • "Circular economy in the construction industry"
  • "Potential for recyclable materials in household collection"
  • "Circular economy as a building block of the sustainability strategy"

After a series of keynote presentations on the topic from the various sectors and on the legal framework, an exchange between the participants in small groups was moderated in the further course using the World Café method. Afterwards the results of each table were presented and discussed together. This exchange enabled Helmholtz-researchers of the Topic "Resource and Energy Efficiency" from HIF, HZDR and KIT to understand what academia can contribute: to identify systemic links and technologies that can be further developed through joint projects and in collaborations.

In the last part of the workshop, ideas for specific projects and calls for proposals at national (AiF, BMBF, BMWK) and EU level were developed in small groups in a "funding market".

Many thanks for the fruitful discussions and the open exchange to all participating guests from the companies, from the Federal Environment Agency and from the Helmholtz Centers HZDR, HIF and KIT!

High-Temperature Superconductivity - "In principle, there is no better way to transport or use electricity"

Interview with Prof. Tabea Arndt at BMWK's "Energy Efficiency Research for Industry and Trade" congress in Berlin in May 2022
Research networks promote knowledge transfer!

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Prof. Tabea Arndt is curator of the Research Field High-Temperature Superconductivity of the Research Network "Industry and Commerce" which is a part of the Research Networks Energy of the BMWK.

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Hannover Messe 2023

From April 17 to 21, 2023, KIT will present highlights from the technological development in the Future Hub and at Energy Solutions.
MTET Energy Solutions at Hannover Messe 2023
MTET Energy Solutions at Hannover Messe 2023
The Energy Lab at KIT is the largest infrastructure for renewable energy research in Europe. KIT
The Energy Lab 2.0 at KIT is the largest infrastructure for renewable energy research in Europe.
Power-to-X technologies generate synthetic energy sources from green electricity and CO2 for aviation, shipping and fossil-free chemical industries. KIT
Power-to-X technologies generate synthetic energy sources from green electricity and CO2 for aviation, shipping and fossil-free chemical industries.
The DeepStor project aims to demonstrate the technical feasibility and efficiency of a high-temperature heat storage system. KIT
The DeepStor project aims to demonstrate the technical feasibility and efficiency of a high-temperature heat storage system.

Energy Solutions

Hall 13, Booth C70

Energy Lab 2.0: Test Field for Future Energy Systems  

Europe’s largest infrastructure for renewable energy focuses on the intelligent networking of environmentally compatible options to generate, store, and supply energy. At Hannover Messe, researchers will provide information on the following topics in particular.

Europe’s largest infrastructure for renewable energy focuses on the intelligent networking of environmentally compatible options to generate, store, and supply energy. At Hannover Messe, researchers will provide information on the following topics in particular.

Power-to-X: Methanation and E-fuels

For the energy transition to be successful, the renewable power sector must be coupled with other energy sectors. In the area of chemical energy carriers, such as fuels and combustibles, this can be achieved using power-to-X approaches (P2X). In this case, synthetic chemical energy carriers are produced from hydrogen and CO2. If hydrogen is produced by electrolysis with green electricity and CO2 comes from a non-fossil source, the P2X products are nearly CO2-neutral. Research at the Energy Lab 2.0 covers the correspond¬ing plants. A Power-to-Liquid container produces so-called e-fuels, the Power-to-Gas plant generates climate-neutral methane for later power production by a gas turbine.

DeepStor: Generating and Storing Geothermal Heat throughout the Year

KIT’s Campus North is located in the geothermally relevant Upper Rhine Graben and, hence, possesses great potential for sustainable heat supply. Within the DeepStor project, researchers test a high-temperature aquifer storage system that is loaded in summer and unloaded in winter. The experimental setup allows for the execution of experiments to load and unload the storage system as well as for the investigation of the associated thermal, hydraulic, chemical, and mechanical processes in the thermal water cycle. Having demonstrated the feasibility, it is planned to integrate for research a high-temperature aquifer storage system in the existing heat grid of KIT’s Campus North.

Picture a Scientist - Portrait Svetlana Korneychuk

Dr. Svetlana Korneychuk studies the fundamental behavior of materials in hydrogen applications such as fuel cells or metallic nanoparticles. KIT
Dr. Svetlana Korneychuk studies the fundamental behavior of materials in hydrogen applications such as fuel cells or metallic nanoparticles.

The Hydrogen Researcher

"The energy of tomorrow is water, which has been broken down by electric current. The elements of water broken down in this way, hydrogen and oxygen, will secure the Earth’s energy supply far into the future”. For Jules Verne, this was a vision he wrote down in his 1875 novel "The Mysterious Island." Dr. Svetlana Korneychuk, however, likes to quote the French author because his vision is closer to reality today than ever before. With her work at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), the researcher contributes to making hydrogen as an energy carrier affordable and suitable for everyday use.

Picture a Scientist
Portrait Philipp Röse - A Conversion Artist
 Picture A Scientist
Portrait Alexander Navarrete Muñoz, The Plasma Summoner

Zeitenwende Energy Security

3+1 initiatives to rapidly improve the security of supply of energy and energy materials. The fourth initiative is RESUR a Helmholtz platform for the design of robust energy systems and raw material supply. 

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3D printing laboratory & Fischer Tropsch synthesis plant
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Plastics pyrolysis laboratory
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Application and Research Fields Hydrogen

In future, hydrogen will play an key role in the defossilization of sectors that cannot be directly electrified with renewable electricity: chemical industry, steel production, as well as shipping and aviation.

Hydrogen can be produced by renewable energy through electrolysis of water, methane pyrolysis of biogas or pyrolysis and gasification of residual biomass and waste. This green hydrogen can be used in the steel industry and for the production of basic chemicals and PtX products in the chemical industry. This allows a defossilization of the industrial sector, which until now has used fossil energy and fossil material sources. An application in the mobility sector is also possible where the direct use of electricity from renewable energies is impossible.

We are actively involved in the fields of production, storage, transport, distribution, application and cross-cutting issues. >>> More information

New KIT Graduate School ENZo

MTET key themes are represented in the KIT Graduate School "Enabling Net Zero" under the roof of the KIT Energy Center.
The new graduate school ENZo

The new graduate school ENZo offers the next generation of young researchers the opportunity to apply interdisciplinary knowledge in application-oriented projects that can visibly contribute to the transformation of the energy system.
Future researchers are characterized not only by their desire to understand how developments and technologies can be embedded in the overall context of the energy system, but also by their desire to contribute to its sustainable design. MTET themes such as

  • Renewable Energy,
  • Sector Coupling Industry - Electricity, Heat, Chemical Energy (Sources), and
  • Circular Economy - Use of Raw Materials and Energy

are holisticly combined in the "Real World Projects" with the important viewpoints and aspects such as

  • Machine Learning and Digital Tools
  • Technoeconomics Assessment, Interaction with Society, Acceptance and Social Developments.

Embedded in the manifold technological and scientific possibilities at the KIT Energy Center, ENZo creates a unique development environment for PhD students.

look KIT: Energylab 2.0 KIT
Energy Lab 2.0

... combines electric, thermal & chemical energy flows as well as new information & communication technologies as the only infrastructure of this kind in Germany.

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Transfer von Wissen und Technologie KIT
Transfer of Knowledge and Technology
Talent Management
Talent Management
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Bioeconomy

Subject of the Science Year 2020/21 plays an important role in the MTET Topics Chemical Energy Carriers and Ressource & Energy Efficiency.

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Technik. Folgen. Visionen. KIT
Technology. Implications. Visions.

MTET contents presented in the new look KIT issue: Closing the plastics loop / 42 / Hydrogen test center / 50 / Li extraction by geothermal plants / 57 /

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