The topic of the 13th edition of "Business meets Science" is more topical than ever.
For the 13th time, the organizers invited to the evening event "Business meets Science"; the University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz (HSZG), the General Business Association Zittau and Surroundings e. V., the Dresden Chamber of Crafts and the Zittau and Görlitz offices of the Dresden Chamber of Industry and Commerce. In perfect weather, entrepreneurs, administrative staff and university lecturers met at an interesting location - the Zittau Power Plant Laboratory (ZKWL) of the HSZG on the premises of the Zittau public utility company.
Reliable, affordable and environmentally friendly - this is how the energy supply should be set up in the future. This was also the basic tenor of the evening.
After welcoming words by
the approximately 80 participants in the event were able to take a tour of the university's research work in the Zittau power plant laboratory at two stations:
The thermo-mechanical energy storage system (TMS battery) - This storage system works with water as an economical working and storage medium. If the project is successful, the technology developed here can store energy for many hours in the form of water vapor and release it as electricity or heat as required. So-called "rare earths" are not required. The aim of the project, which is based at the Institute of Process Engineering, Process Automation and Metrology (IPM ) at the HZSG, is to provide an environmentally friendly electricity storage system for the sector coupling of electricity and heat.
Your contact: Dipl.-Ing. Thomas Schäfer
The latent heat accumulator - here, heat is stored in the form of a melting medium at a constant temperature. In the heat storage test field, the researchers are developing comparative key figures for heat storage systems from systematic measurements. This will make it easier for planners to find the right thermal storage systems for customers in the future.
Your contact: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jens Meinert
Based on many years of established expertise, the scientists at the HSZG tackle energy and environmental technology problems. The spectrum ranges from the optimization of new technologies for the provision of electricity to highly efficient recycling technologies and automation technology through to biotechnology.
Some of this research work is also reflected in the business areas of Stadtwerke Zittau; a mutually beneficial collaboration. The following two stations of heat supply and heat distribution for the city of Zittau also played a role in this evening at the Stadtwerke:
Next year, the 14th edition of the event series on innovation and technology transfer will take place in the extension building of the Upper Lusatian Plastics Center of the Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology (IWU) on Theodor-Körner-Allee in Zittau.
As early as 2009, the Dresden Chamber of Industry and Commerce created a format in the region in which entrepreneurs and scientists meet, get to know each other and exchange technical information on site in order to establish contacts between companies and the university in a simple way on the one hand, and to stimulate innovation and technology transfer in the region on the other, but also to offer solutions with regard to the skilled labor situation and the next generation of managers.
Each year, a different department and laboratory has been visited in order to give companies - as well as employees from administration and institutions - an insight into the work of the university.
