A selection from our current projects illustrates our work in hand. Should any synergy between your business and ours appear, feel free to enquire within our organization.
Please note that for confidentiality reasons only public projects are displayed. Generally, projects that are carried out for private clients are subject to non-disclosure or confidentiality agreements.
Numerous studies predict a strong increase in the cooling demand of buildings. However, for both economic and ecological reasons, electricity consumption must not increase in proportion to the cooling demand. New, efficient cooling solutions are therefore required.
Together with the University of Applied Sciences of Northwestern…
Thermocline is a cost efficient thermal storage system able to reduce capital costs of CSP up to 40 %. The objective of this project is to develop new thermocline concepts that can be applicable to different CSP plants. Detailed simulation of two thermocline concepts will be validated with the experimental data generated in this…
The storage of larger amounts of renewable energy over longer periods of time can be considered one of the last unsolved problems of the energy transition. In the HePostAl and HybridStock projects, it was shown that aluminium enables the seasonal storage of renewable energy by means of a redox cycle and that the annual demand for…
In the project HpCosy the basics for a decentralized brine-water heat pump system for flats in
multi-family houses will be developed and investigated. This "Comfort System" includes the functions heating, cooling and domestic hot water preparation, whereby the latter can optionally be controlled with the consideration of…
Reducing heat losses from existing residential buildings by refurbishing the building envelope is an important step to reduce the heating demand of buildings. In the EU project PLURAL, prefabricated façade modules are being developed and tested, which enable novel possibilities for energy generation, heat/cold supply and…
In «Slurry-Hp I» we have shown the potentials of cost reduction of using the ice slurry technology with the supercooling method for solar-ice applications. First work on supercoolers was done in «Slurry-Hp II» and it is currently being developed in the «H2020 TRI-HP». «Slurry Store» will work towards the development of an ice…
Dr. Michel HallerSPF Institut für SolartechnikDozent, Leiter SPF Research, Teamleiter SPF Energiesysteme
+41 58 257 48 36michel.haller@ost.ch