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Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology (UMSICHT)
Institution
Section overview
Description
Fraunhofer UMSICHT develops applied and custom-made process engineering technologies. Assuming a leading position in the fields of environmental and material technologies, process engineering and energy technology, Fraunhofer UMSICHT is committed to sustainable economic development, environmentally friendly technologies and innovative approaches designed to improve the standard of living and to promote the innovation capacity of the national economy.
Activities
- Research
Parent institution
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (FhG)
Coordinated projects
- Agrosystem for future: SUSKULT
- Collaborative project: Development of an AI-based energy-optimized lighting system for urban indoor plant cultivation - subproject A
- Collaborative Project: Development of fuel vapor retention system (KDRS) to avoid loss of gaseous fuel with the use of bioethanol as a fuel additive, sub-project 1: Modelling absorber
- Collaborative project: Particle foam material based on raw materials containing starch. Subproject 1: Procedural and molding development
- Collaborative: Polymeric surfactants from renewable raw materials with enhanced performance characteristics. Project 6: Selective enzymatic hydrolysis
- Controlled biodegradability of filament yarns by changing filament cross-section geometry and polymer crystallinity
- Development of a combined process for pyrolysis oil upgrading using bio-ethanol and hydrogen. Subproject 1
- Generative construction of sound absorbers panels based on fungi
- Joint project: Development of a bonding adhesive produced on the basis of poly-L-lactic acid; Subproject 4: Preparation and characterization of the backbone polymers
- Material and process development for the production of wood-biopolymer sandwich panels based on renewable resources. Subproject 2
- Novel packagin foils of bioplastic with a high biobased source materials, good flexibility, excellent barrier effects and safe recycability
- Potential study on renewable energies NRW, Part 3 - Biomass
- Research Group: Fundamentals and application development of high-performance polymers based on C4- chemical raw materials from industrially available renewable resources.
Coordinated collaborative projects
Work package leader of collaborative projects
Involved in research projects
Contact
Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology
(UMSICHT)
Osterfelder Str. 3
D-46047 Oberhausen
North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)208 8598-0
Fax: +49 (0)208 8598-1290
Email: info(@)umsicht.fraunhofer.de