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Biobattery Plant Makes Gas, Oil, and Fertilizer

Mila Luleva — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 21:08:25 +0000

A new biogas power plant prototype, which is also a biobattery, can utilize various types of raw materials to produce electricity, ready to use purified oil and gas, and fertilizer, at the same time. A team of scientists at the German Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Energy and Safety Technology are currently testing their latest invention, which […]

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New Building Material Formed from Recycled Concrete Debris by Using Lightning Blasts

Mike Sandru — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 21:16:08 +0000

Waste is not only made up of soda bottles thrown away or discarded newspaper. People are continually changing the environment to suit new purposes or needs. Buildings are thus being put up, torn down or renovated at a constant rate, resulting in many tons of building waste. Concrete waste, not so long ago, was only […]

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Fraunhofer Team Invents Printed Thermoelectric Device

Mila Luleva — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 17:06:42 +0000

At the Electronica trade fair in Munich (13 – 16 November), researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials IFAM in Bremen is presenting a striking innovation. A printed thermogenerator, manufactured by the team, which deposits functional structures containing ink or paste base, and has electrical circuit boards and sensors that can […]

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HERIC Topology: How a Brilliant Idea Brought 99% Efficiency For Solar Panel Inverters

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 26 May 2011 15:12:43 +0000

Brilliant ideas usually don't need years of hard labor, or at least so it happens most of the time. For example, by implementing a switching trick to a DC to AC current converter used in solar panels, Heribert Schmidt, an electrical engineer (with a doctorate), from the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems has managed to halve inverter losses, bringing the efficiency to 98 percent.

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Cheaper OLED Technology Developed By German Researchers

Mike Sandru — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:13:43 +0000

The OLED (organic light emitting diode) technology has been known around for quite a while and lately its presence in the consumer products has been felt more intensively, though at a slower pace due to the costly manufacturing process.

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First Biogas Plant That Runs on Waste Biomass Feedstocks

Cristi — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:26:51 +0000

Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems IKTS in Dresden have recently developed a biogas plant that utilizes waste materials such as corn stalks and other agricultural waste.

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