Services
- Development of calculation models
- Design and optimization of cooled and/or flowed components
- Experimental validation of models, components and plants
- Consulting and applied research in the area of heat utilization, efficient energy conversion and component cooling
- Consulting on innovation programs, applying for funds, support on research projects
- Further education, trainings and seminars
Key Areas
- Thermofluid dynamics
- Cooling of highly stressed components
- Modelling of flows with heat transfer
- Influencing of heat transfer through surface structures
- Calculation of heat and material transport in porous media with and without adsorption
- Coupling of different simulation processes (1D, 3D, CFD, FEM)
- Adjustment of open-source simulation tools to special application
- Efficient energy conversion
- Sorption technology (heat pumps, cooling machines, heat utilization, dehumification)
- Heat utilization with Organic Rankine Cycles (ORC)
- Efficient control algorithms
- Controls on the basis of open-source hardware and software
- Turbo machines
- Know-how network at the University of Applied Sciences Karlsruhe
- Close cooperation especially with the Institute of Refrigeration, Air-Conditioning, and Environmental Engineering (IKKU), the Insitute of Material and Processes (IMP), the Institute of Energy Efficient Mobility (IEEM) and the Steinbeis Transfer Centers
Project Examples
- Experimental study on loss mechanisms in sorption heat pumps
- Development and characterization of sorption materials with high power density
- Development and manufacturing of a test bench for balance and kinetics measurements on adsorbients
- Cooling of highly stressed tools with the help of heat pipes
Media
Steinbeis Transfer Magazine

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Steinbeis Transferzentren GmbH an der Hochschule Karlsruhe | Moltkestr. 30, 76133 Karlsruhe
Phone: +49 711 1839-659 | Register Court Mannheim HRB 110626
Managing Directors: Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Elke Zimmer, Dipl.-Ing. Katrin Wolf | An enterprise in the Steinbeis Network | www.steinbeis-karlsruhe.de