Energy - Environment - Climate
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Protecting the environment and climate are among the most significant challenges facing our civilisation in the 21st century. To make life on this planet worth living in the future, we must work towards achieving global sustainability. We must rethink technical value added chains and biogeochemical cycles and ensure that energy supply and consumption are recognised as having an important impact on the climate in the process. Engineering challenges in energy transformation from generating renewable energy, to effective conversation and storage, and supplying industrial processes are important areas of research throughout the Faculty of Engineering.
Scientists working in these fields have a broad range of expertise from developing basic materials (e.g. SiC), components and integration technology to developing complex power electronics systems for e-mobility and electrical power supply in collaboration with researchers from the Fraunhofer institutes IIS and IISB and Leistungszentrum Elektroniksysteme (LZE). Researchers at Energie Campus Nürnberg (EnCN) are developing closed-loop renewable energy chains by focusing on producing electricity from renewable sources, energy storage technologies, efficient consumer systems and intelligent energy management solutions. In partnership with the Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg for Renewable Energy (HI ERN), scientists are developing an interdisciplinary approach to producing renewable energy with printable photovoltaic technology, conversion into chemical energy using electrolysis and fuel cells, and scalable storage in liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHC). Computer scientists at the Faculty of Engineering are contributing to digital transformation in the energy system through research on data analytics, control algorithms (also based on machine learning methods) and simulating and optimising smart energy systems for sector coupling.
With a broad spectrum of interdisciplinary research approaches, the Faculty of Engineering is contributing to major and acute challenges facing the environment, climate and energy systems.
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