Energy Storage 2018

Düsseldorf / March 13, 2018 - March 15, 2018

Hall 8B / Booth 39B

From March 13–15, 2018, international scientists and experts meet at the Congress Center Düsseldorf to discuss on the progress of storage technologies for renewable energies. This year again, Fraunhofer IGB will present the topics of sorptive heat storage and chemical energy storage.

Hochdurchsatz-Screening — © Fraunhofer IGB
In this multi-purpose system with four parallel reactor tubes, the researchers can test catalysts under different reaction conditions in high throughput.

Chemical energy storage
Catalyst and process development, CO₂and energy conversion

The Fraunhofer IGB’s Straubing branch “Bio, Electro, and Chemocatalysis BioCat” develops catalysts and processes for the conversion of electric energy and CO₂ in liquid energy carriers. Thereby, Fraunhofer IGB BioCat uses and combines the whole spectrum of catalysis (heterogeneous, homogeneous, bio-, and electrocatalysis). The main criteria for the developments are: high energy efficiency, scalability, possibility for decentral operation, flexibility for intermittent operation. A prominent, first-of-its-class example is a process which combines the CO₂-based methanol synthesis with the methanol fermentation to longer chain hydrocarbons (DE102016203889).

In the frame of the EU Project CELBICON, BioCat aims the combination of electrochemical synthesis of liquid C1-intermediates followed by C1-Fermentation to terpenes. The national project “eleMeMe“ set the goal to use the methanol/CO₂ system for decoupling the energy generation from consumption. Furthermore, BioCat also develops processes for the synthesis of CO₂-based bulk chemicals (ethylene, ethylene-oxide).

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Sorptive heat storage

While generation of power and in several industrial processes large amounts of waste heat are surplus. Compact, adsorptive heat storage systems developed by Fraunhofer IGB can store heat energy, thereby bridging the gap between the time and location heat is available and when resp. where it is needed for heating and cooling applications. Here, heat energy is stored lossless by spatial separation of two components (e.g. zeolite and water vapor) and released during a physisorptive bond of both components when heat is required. The technology has the advantage, that very high specific storage densities can be achieved and due to the storage principle no loss of sensible heat occurs during the storage period.

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Events and Trade Fairs

Düsseldorf / March 13, 2018 - March 15, 2018