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ZSW: Processing raw materials from old batteries

  • German
  • Widespread recycling of lithium-ion batteries, especially from electric cars, will sustainably ensure the supply of critical raw materials in the future. The Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg ZSW reactivates graphite and all critical metals from used lithium ion batteries.
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HyAfrica investigates natural hydrogen in Africa as an alternative energy source

  • German / English
The HyAfrica project is concerned with exploring deposits of natural hydrogen in several African countries to provide alternative energy for local areas. The long-term joint research and innovation partnership between the European Union and the African Union in the field of renewable energy (LEAP-RE) is funding the project with a budget …

University of Bayreuth and City of Wunsiedel establish Future Energy Lab

  • German / English
The cooperation of the University of Bayreuth with the city of Wunsiedel around the energy park there will be further expanded. The Bavarian Minister President, Dr. Markus Söder, expressly supports the concept for a Future Energy Lab drawn up by the two partners and announced yesterday, September 14, 2022, that the …
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E.On and BMW test bidirectional charging for private households

  • German
  • With bidirectional charging, the electric car battery becomes a mobile power storage unit. E.On and BMW are now testing how private households with their own photovoltaic system can use their e-car as a battery on four wheels with the BMW i3 in the Munich area.
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Using electricity more intelligently with the IntelliGrid plug

  • german/english
Project at Kiel University of Applied Sciences (UAS) aims to make electricity use more efficient. The IntelliGrid plug allows some household appliances to be used specifically when cheap electricity is available. Currently, the project team is looking for test households. Storing electricity is difficult. Capacitors are often very expensive and limited …
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Successful test run: sharing solar power with the neighbor

  • German
  • For six months, seven households in Bavaria tried out energy trading with their neighbors. The results of the "BASE.V" project show that fluctuating generation can also be balanced in this way and brought into line with rising electricity consumption.
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Project LiBinfinity: Old batteries become new ones

  • German
  • In LiBinfinity, partners from research and industry are developing an approach that ranges from logistics concepts to the reintegration of recyclates into the battery life cycle. They are developing a mechanical-hydrometallurgical process that does not require any energy-intensive process steps at all and enables higher recycling rates.
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ZSW recycles raw materials from lithium ion batteries

  • German / English
Widespread recycling of lithium-ion batteries, especially from electric cars, will sustainably ensure the supply of critical raw materials in the future. Today’s recycling processes recover only some metals, lithium is partially lost, graphite even completely. A new process could now change this: In the RecycleMat project, the Center for Solar Energy …
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In search of the energy storage of tomorrow

  • German
  • Landshut University of Applied Sciences is part of the BMBF competence cluster for solid-state batteries and is researching new concepts for cost-effective and safe storage of electrical energy. From an application perspective, the Landshut team is investigating the possibility of using lamination technology to build and connect solid-state batteries using a polymer as the electrolyte.

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