Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM

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Energy and Supply

Renewable energies are already an important component of the energy supply. Their share will continue to rise and pose new challenges for power plant operators, grid managers and energy-intensive industry.

We develop future-proof planning software that integrates the domain knowledge of experts with mathematical optimization algorithms to provide support with regard to investment and business model decisions under uncertain price developments.

Optimization of the Energy Infrastructure

Project »ENERDIG«

Digitalization and artificial intelligence should reduce energy consumption in production and buildings, adapt it to fluctuating generation and control energy conversion processes more efficiently.

Ammonia as a »Green Hydrogen« Storage

As part of the »AMMONPAKTOR« project, we are researching the possibilities of using ammonia as a »green hydrogen storage« together with the Fraunhofer IMM.

Water Supply

The drinking water supply accounts for a significant proportion of municipal electricity expenditure. The use of characteristic curves of the consumer network and pumps leads to more energy efficiency.

Planning Optimal Photovoltaic Systems

Designing the combination of photovoltaic and storage systems is a challenge. Our decision support tool developed with GOLDBECK SOLAR face them.

Optimization of Flexible Electricity-Intensive Industrial Processes

In the project »FlexEuro«, we are developing solutions for the optimal marketing of load flexibilities on electricity markets.

Energy Supply of Buildings

Together with the company Goldbeck, we have developed a planning tool that comprehensively simulates and evaluates energy supply concepts for buildings.

Energy Management

chargeBIG

The chargeBIG project is a joint development effort with MAHLE Group and the Eliso company to create a new kind of charging infrastructure for electric drive vehicles.

Amperix

The multi-vendor compatible energy management system Amperix establishes an energy hub for households and industry with its optimized control of battery storage systems, heat pumps and charging stations for electric vehicles.

myPowerGrid

myPowerGrid delivers a centralized, easy-to-use management infrastructure for an aggregated distributed energy storage transparently serving the interests of both corporate and private stakeholders.

GRID-Friends

In this research project develops and evaluates the coordination mechanisms and the technological platform for the energy cooperative, to achieve cost efficiency of maximum autarky by shared exploitation of storage and other flexible resources.

PVCAST

PVCAST is a project that develops a forecasting service that generates the seven day forecast for the production of a photovoltaic plant.

Contact Press / Media

Dr. Neele Leithäuser

Head of Department »Optimization – Energy« in the division »Optimization«

Fraunhofer-Institut für Techno- und Wirtschaftsmathematik
Fraunhofer-Platz 1
67663 Kaiserslautern

Phone +49 631 31600-4621

Fax +49 631 31600-5621

Send email
neele.leithaeuser@itwm.fraunhofer.de
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Prof. Dr. Michael Bortz

Head of Department »Optimization – Technical Processes«

Fraunhofer-Institut für Techno- und Wirtschaftsmathematik
Fraunhofer-Platz 1
67663 Kaiserslautern

Phone +49 631 31600-4532

Fax +49 631 31600-5532

Send email
michael.bortz@itwm.fraunhofer.de
more info