Steinbeis Transfer Center Energy - Environment - Information

• Development of energy concepts
• Studies, analysis and consultation, the environment and environmental pollution
• Expert reports
• Energy and material conversion for methods and processes
• Systems/decision analysis
• Software development
• Control systems, measurement systems

• Energy
  • New thermal energy supply concepts
  • Analysis and reduction of energy consumption
  • Use of natural, renewable energy sources (biomass, solar energy)
  • Cooling and cooling technology
• Environment
  • Biotic, metabolic processes
  • Air/steam systems
  • Reduction in carbon emissions
  • Closed ecological cycles
• Information
  • Information gains through sensor technology
  • Information compression through the modeling of biological and technical processes
  • Emerging technologies for knowledge gathering and experience
  • Modular software solutions for know-how management and transfer
  • Concepts for controlling technical processes  


• Greenhouses as energy and material conversion systems
  • Reduction of energy consumption with model-based process controls
  • Information technology for closed material cycles in horticulture
  • Speaking plant, data measurement logging and process control following plant signals
• Process optimization through innovative sensor technology
  • Gas conversion measurement technology for determination of materials and energy transport models
  • Image recognition and processing
• Carbon and radiation use, transpiration and assimilation control
  • Measurement and control systems, optimal control
  • Information processing
• Heating systems
  • Innovative heat energy systems; cogeneration; combined heat and power systems (CHPs); generation and conversion of district heating
  • Central cooling systems
  • Information processing
  • Capacity management
  • Thermal energy storage
• Energy source: wood
  • Extraction of wood as a renewable, carbon-neutral sulfur dioxide-free source of energy from agriculture and agronomy
  • Systems for generating energy from wood
  • Internalization of external expenditures for funding renewable energy use
  • Use of wood as a source of energy

Steinbeis Transfer Magazine

• “Now it’s all about getting on with transfer again.” (Transfer 2/2015)
  An interview with Professor Dr. Uwe Schmidt, director of the Steinbeis Transfer Center for Energy – Environment – Information