Andreas Reber

We integrate GSC in the study programme through different formats. Current opportunities include project work and an interdisciplinary one-week course. External partners are invited to provide their challenges to the students to develop applied and practice relevant solutions. ...

With the increasing spread of photovoltaics and electromobility, bidirectional charging of electric vehicles is becoming more and more important. Especially in single-family homes, the implementation of vehicle-to-home (V2H) is much simpler and less complicated than vehicle-to-grid or feeding energy back into larger buildings. ...

We combine solar energy with innovative water treatment technologies to enable communities or institutions to purify water on-site. This includes the design of suitable PV systems in conjunction with water treatment methods such as Gravity Driven Membranes (GDM) or solar water disinfection (SoWaDis). ...

In this partnership, teaching content is developed and delivered together with our partner university “United Methodist University of Liberia” (UMU). The created capacity is applied in water and sanitation projects of our local partner NGOs. ...

In this project a calorimeter was built for the measurement of the specific heat cp of heat transfer fluids with a measurement uncertainty of ±0.3 %.
The apparatus will be used for quality assurance at the SPF and is available for measuring fluids of third parties as well. This brings significant advantages for manufacturers and...

Clean water, a reliable power supply and cooling systems for medicines and vaccines are not a given in many rural hospitals in Africa. To ensure better healthcare also in remote regions, the EU has supported the SophiA project, which relies on modular containers to produce drinking water, heat, cold and electricity using solar...

SPF is contributing to the development of qualified people to meet the future demand for the increasing market of renewable energy power plants in Indonesia.

The CCT-Bat project is to develop a system test for home batteries, with which all relevant operating conditions can be tested within three days using the hardware in the loop principle, in order to determine the cycle efficiency and other key performance indicators. Different target functions of the systems (self-consumption,...

Within the EU project Hybrid-BioVGE an innovative system for heating and cooling is developed. The cooling device is based on a Variable Geometry Ejection (VGE) cooler. Driving energy is heat from solar collectors or from biomass. SPF is supporting the development of collectors that deliver heat at 75 – 90 °C, and is testing the...