Projecten

De MPC-GT project bracht thogether een transdisciplinair team van KMO's, grote bedrijven en onderzoeksinstellingen, met ervaring in onderzoek en toepassing van het ontwerp en de controlesystemen in de gecombineerde bouw en energie wereld. Op basis van eerder onderzoek, ondersteund door (mede) de EU en de nationale projecten, en praktische ervaring van de knelpunten, waar geïdentificeerd die voorkomen dat op dit moment een echte doorbraak van ...

Het hoofddoel van het CHESTER-project is de ontwikkeling en validatie van een innovatief systeem dat energiebeheer, opslag en verzendbare levering van veel verschillende RES mogelijk maakt door de elektriciteitssector te combineren met de warmtebranche. Dit wordt gedaan door een innovatief energie-energieopslagsysteem te combineren, het zogenaamde CHEST-systeem (Compressed Heat Energy Storage) met Smart District Heating, wat leidt tot een ...

The current high-speed deployment rate of non-programmable Renewable Energy Sources (RES) is making transmission network planning activities more and more complex and affected by a high level of uncertainty. Because network investments are capital intensive and the lifetime of the infrastructure spans several decades, it may happen that when a new line is commissioned it is no longer the best option and it might be partially regarded as a ...

According to the Integrated Roadmap of the Set-plan, and to reach the new EU target of 27% of renewable energies in 2030, there is the need to rapidly expand the use of all renewable energy sources in Europe to accelerate the fight against global climate change. This requires the acceleration of development of new options that are emerging today, particularly, technologies that solve the key issue of energy storage.

The next-CSP Project ...

The innovative thermo-chemical (TC) network technology of H-DisNet will contribute to next-generation district energy networks. The technology will exploit the high chemical potential of absorption processes for loss-free transport and storage of energy potential. It will be applied to form an intelligent district network with thermal, electric and gas networks. This intelligent thermo-chemical district network will ...

The aim of the oPEN Lab is to identify replicable, commercially viable solution packages enabling the achievement of positive energy neighbourhoods within existing urban contexts that are seamlessly integrated into the local energy system as an active micro-energy hub, and to test these technologies and package as an integrated solution at neighbourhood scale.

Three open innovation living labs in the cities of Genk (BE), Pamplona ...

The sustainable development goals of the UN and climate targets of the EU require that all economic sectors sharply reduce fossil-based use. However, the agricultural sector has the potential to not only greatly defossilize, but even produce energy – and that not to the detriment of, but alongside with food production. Photovoltaic (PV) has become dramatically more competitive relative to other renewable energy sources, and is now as ...

Energy harvesting at low frequency has proven to be difficult to achieve in the past because of the properties of the materials that the devices are fabricated from. In particular the stiffness of conventional silicon and all piezoelectric materials makes it exceedingly difficult to make a system that can operate below 100Hz. There are many sources of low frequency vibrations e.g. human motion, the motion of ships, and traffic; so an Energy ...