Refrigeration technology

 Climate Control, Rerigeration, and Low-Temperature Cooling

• Sub- and Transcritical CO₂ Refrigeration Systems
• Cooling and Heating for Mobile Applications
• Refrigeration Systems with Refrigerant Mixtures and Autocascade Cycles
• Household Refrigerator -Efficiency / Accoustic Measurements
• Numerical Investigations of Ice Slurries in Plate Heat Exchangers
• Electronics Cooling
• Vaccine Cooling and Solar-Driven Cooling

Mobile Refrigeration and Heating

• Cooling and Heating for Mobile Applications
• Container and Truck Cooling

Production of Cooling at Temperatures Below -50 °C

• Development of Alternative Refrigerants for Temperatures below -50 °C
• Development of New System Architechtures for Temperatures below -50 °C
• Environmental Simulation Chamber Development
• CO₂ Sublimation
• Refrigeration Systems with Refrigerant Mixtures and Autocascade Cycles

Heat Pumps/Waste-Heat Recovery

• Cooling and Heating for Mobile Applications
• Heat Pumps for Household Application
• High-Temperature Heat Pumps
• Sorption Refrigeration Machines - Particularly Resorption
• ORC/CRC Systems

• Heat pumps for cold local heating networks

Material and Fluid Property Investigation

•  Development of Refrigerant Mixtures for Low- and High-Temperature Applications
• Measurement of Boundary Layers and Surface Tension of Fluids and Fluid Mixtures
• Identification of Frezing Points of Fluids and Fluid Mixtures
• Identification of Solubility Gaps and Vapor-Pressure Curves of Refrigerants and Refrigerant-Oil Mixtures
• Identification of the Compositoin of Gas and Fluid Mixtures
• Measurement of the Dynamic and Kinematic Viscosity of Fluids
• Measurement of the Isochoric and Isobaric Heat Capacity of Fluids
• Identificatoin of the Thermal Conductivity of Fluids
• Material Compatibility and Corrosion Tests