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Research & Development
Austrian Solar Innovation Center (ASIC)
The Austrian Solar Innovation Centre (ASIC) in Wels has been carrying out research and development in the field of solar technology since March 2000. Thanks to financial support from the province of Upper Austria, the city of Wels and the Wels electricity company, a platform has been created between research, education and commercial enterprises. Research and development as well as project management in the field of solar energy are among the ASIC's primary tasks.
The ASiC carries out research and development projects in the field of renewable energy technologies and in particular in the area of solar technology.
The solar laboratory, where a wide range of measuring equipment can be used, is also available for this purpose. Collector performance tests can be carried out at the indoor and outdoor measuring stations. The optical characteristics (transmission, absorption, etc.) of collector components can be measured in the optical laboratory.
Focus of ASIC
- New collector development
- Optimisation of existing collectors
- General solar thermal systems
- Large-scale solar thermal systems for water heating
- Water heating and central heating backup
- Process heat supply
- Solar cooling
- (Solar) thermal cooling systems
- Thermal storage systems
- photovoltaics
- energy management
Research centre for hydrogen technology (Start 2025)
Hydrogen is one of the key elements for the future of energy and mobility. With the help of fuel cells, hydrogen can power electric motors, store energy and heat homes. The molecular gas with the chemical formula H2 is bound in water and can therefore be found in almost every organic compound. The University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria has been researching the further development of green hydrogen technologies at the Wels campus for several years now. For example, students have developed a recumbent bike with a hydrogen fuel cell drive, a system with great potential for the future. Work has also been carried out on a new compressor for hydrogen, in which compression and storage take place simultaneously.
The core of the new H2 research centre is a multifunctional H2 research and test facility measuring around 600 square metres with state-of-the-art laboratory equipment. The centre will focus on greenhouse gas (GHG)-intensive industries such as paper and printing, chemical and pharmaceutical production, metal production and processing as well as the processing of mineral raw materials.
In addition, companies and institutions of all kinds are to be supported in using climate-neutral gases - such as green H2 - or developing components for them. Another focus is on analysing materials and components for storing, measuring and transporting H2 and other gases.
Plans include a systemic research facility for electricity, heat, materials and sector coupling with up to 500 kilowatts of electrical and thermal output. This consists of four different test stands, which will be used for different fields of application: CO2-intensive industrial processes, such as cement production or gas and H2 burners, H2-relevant components, such as sensors, valves or fuel cell systems, and materials, in particular metals and plastics (wear, embrittlement, tightness), energy storage with H2, H2 processes and systems.
Students at the University of Applied Sciences from a wide range of degree programs - Applied Energy Technology, Electrical Engineering, Sustainable Energy Systems (Master), Energy Informatics (Master in Hagenberg), Sustainable Solutions - will not only be able to work at the new research centre in future, but also complete internships there or write their dissertations on the subject of hydrogen.
Focus of H2- institute
In the HyBRID project, a comprehensive hydrogen research and testing infrastructure is being designed and developed. Based on the needs in Upper Austria, the existing competences of the FH Upper Austria Campus Wels and strategic framework conditions, the following thematic priorities have been defined for the hydrogen research centre:
- Thermal utilisation of hydrogen in high-temperature processes
- Interaction of hydrogen with materials and components
- Hydrogen in the electrical network
- Process engineering utilisation of hydrogen
HyBRID lays the foundation for future-oriented basic hydrogen research and later also application-oriented research in Upper Austria in order to ensure the efficient and effective utilisation of climate-neutral hydrogen. This will support and drive forward the sustainable structural change of industry and society towards climate neutrality.
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