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Variable refrigerant flow (VRF) and variable air volume (VAV) systems are considered among the best heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems (HVAC) thanks to their ability to provide cooling and heating in different thermal zones of the same building. As well as their ability to recover the heat rejected from spaces requiring cooling and reuse it to heat another space. Nevertheless, at the same time, these systems are considered one of the most energy-consuming systems in the building. So, it is crucial to well size the system according to the building’s cooling and heating needs and the indoor temperature fluctuations. This study aims to compare these two energy systems by conducting an energy model simulation of a real building under a semi-arid climate for cooling and heating periods. The developed building energy model (BEM) was validated and calibrated using measured and simulated indoor air temperature and energy consumption data. The study aims to evaluate the effect of these HVAC systems on energy consumption and the indoor thermal comfort of the building. The numerical model was based on the Energy Plus simulation engine. The approach used in this paper has allowed us to reach significant quantitative energy saving along with a high level of indoor thermal comfort by using the VRF system compared to the VAV system. The findings prove that the VRF system provides 46.18% of the annual total heating energy savings and 6.14% of the annual cooling and ventilation energy savings compared to the VAV system.
Non-Esterified Plant Oils as Fuel -Engine Characteristics, Emissions and Mutagenic effects of PM-
(2009)
Plant oils may be used as a sustainable, nearly CO2 neutral fuel for diesel engines. This work investigates experimentally the particulate and gaseous emissions of diesel engines fuelled with non-esterified, pure plant oils with the quality standard of DIN V 51605 (Weihen-stephan RK-Qualitätsstandard 05/2000). The data are collected from three engines:
Common rail passenger car engine from OPEL AG
Truck engine from VOLVO
Truck engine from MAN AG
All engines have been correctly adjusted to plant oil operation.
The OPEL and VOLVO engines served for the basic investigations. The emissions of the MAN engine have been used to perform AMES tests to analyze possible health impacts of plant oil operation.
The experimental data show a reduction of particulate matter compared to traditional gasoil which may yield up to 50 % for. The particulate matter shows same primary particle sizes but the agglomerates as collected on TEM grids are different - the plant oil soot particles tend to form larger aggregates [4]. The gaseous emissions of CO and hydrocarbons HC are generally lower compared to the operation with gasoil. However, the NOX emissions are slightly higher. This may be contributed to the measured higher combustion chamber pressures and temperatures when fuelled by plant oils.
Emission samples have been extracted from ESC cycles of 13 step tests to perform the AMES test which give indication on carcinogen substances. The AMES test results gave no indication of mutagenic effects exceeding the detection limits. No significant differences could be found comparing the emissions of plant oil and gasoil operation. Thus, it can be stated that the emission from plant oil operation does not have a health impact different to traditional gas oil. This is in contrast to some other publications — a deeper insight shows that these investigations did not properly modify the engine for plant oils. It is mandatory to make the engine modification to pre-warm the plant oils to approx. 90°C prior to injection. The engine's warm-up phase needs special care to avoid any coking at the injection system and combustion chamber surfaces. The publications where a higher health risk was claimed to be found in the exhaust of plant oil fuels, did not pre-warm the plant oils — cold plant oils have been injected in the combustion chamber instead. This results in incomplete atomization and incomplete combustion with a lot of hazardous emission species (see also [4,11]. Such an operation will damage the engine after relatively short times and is, therefore, not realistic.
The investigated fuels had some influence on the engine characteristics. Higher temperatures and pressures in the cylinder have been detected for some plant oils compared to gasoil. This increase is explained by the higher oxygen content within the plant oils.
Plant oils may be used as a sustainable, nearly CO2neutral fuel for diesel engines. This work investigates experimentally the particulate and gaseous emissions of diesel engines fuelled with different non-esterified, pure plant oils. The data are collected from three engines: a) Common rail 1.7 liter passenger car engine from Opel AG b) 12.8 liter truck engine from VOLVO c) Truck engine from MAN AG.
The emissions of the MAN engine have been used to perform AMES tests to analyze possible health impacts of plant oil operation. Finally, all emission results with plant oils have been compared to traditional gas oils.
Colored glass products with various printing technologies are becoming more important in industry. The aim is to achieve individual solution in a very short delivery time. Conventional thermal treatment of burning glasses in oven for tempered color printing has predominant issues with high time consumption, energy consumption and manufacturing cost. It requires alternative process development.
This paper proposes laser process to overcome issues in conventional treatment with the latest results of tempering colored glass. Samples have been analyzed with the scanning electron microscope (SEM). Two different laser systems have been applied and the glass has been printed with black paste.
In thin-layer chromatography, fiber-bundle arrays have been introduced for spectral absorption measurements in the UV-region. Using all-silica fiber bundles, the exciting light will be detected after re-emission on the plate with a fiberoptic spectrometer. In addition, fluorescence light can be detected which will be masked by the re-emitted light. Therefore, it is helpful to separate the absorption and fluorescence on the TLC-plate. A modified three-array assembly has been developed: using one array for detection, the two others are used for excitation with broadband band deuterium-light and with UV-LEDs adjusted to the substances under test. As an example, the quantification of glucosamine in nutritional supplements or spinach leaf extract will be described. Using simply heating of the amino-plate for derivation, the reaction product of Glucosamine can be detected sensitively either by light absorption or by fluorescence, using the new fiber-optic assembly. In addition, the properties of the new 3-row fiber-optic array and the commercially available UV-LEDs will be shown, in the interesting wavelength region for excitation of fluorescence, from 260 nm to 360 nm. The squint angle having an influence on coupling efficiency and spatial resolution will be measured with the inverse farfield method. Some properties of UV-LEDs for analytical applications will be described and discussed, too.
Non-esterified plant oils gain ecological and economical importance, particularly in the EU where it is intended to increase the share of renewable energies. Plant oils do not require any chemical treatment so do not cause secondary pollution. The importance of plant oil will increase in Germany for mobile and stationary applications. The generation co-generation of heat and power is subsidized by the German “Erneuerbares Energiegesetz” and the “Kraft-Wärme-Kopplungsgesetz” when renewable fuels are used such as plant oils..
Plant oils have a much higher viscosity than conventional gas oil. It is mandatory to decrease the oil viscosity by heating prior to injection to assure proper injection and to avoid engine damage due to coke formation in the combustion chamber and at the injection nozzle. The German quality standard of Weihenstephan (RK-Qualitätsstandard 05/2000) for rape seed oil should be followed for use as diesel fuel. The chemical composition of plant oils is appreciably different in comparison to diesel fuels derived from mineral oils suggesting also different emission behavior.
Muli-scale thermos-electrochemical modelling of aging mechanisms in an LFP/graphite lithium-ion cell
(2017)
Lithium-ion batteries show strongly nonlinear behaviour regarding the battery current and state of charge. Therefore, the modelling of lithium-ion batteries is complex. Combining physical and data-driven models in a grey-box model can simplify the modelling. Our focus is on using neural networks, especially neural ordinary differential equations, for grey-box modelling of lithium-ion batteries. A simple equivalent circuit model serves as a basis for the grey-box model. Unknown parameters and dependencies are then replaced by learnable parameters and neural networks. We use experimental full-cycle data and data from pulse tests of a lithium iron phosphate cell to train the model. Finally, we test the model against two dynamic load profiles: one consisting of half cycles and one dynamic load profile representing a home-storage system. The dynamic response of the battery is well captured by the model.
The paper is addressing the needs of the universities regarding qualification of students as future R&D specialists in efficient techniques for successfully running innovation process. In comparison with the engineers, the students often demonstrate lower motivation in learning systematic inventive techniques, like for example TRIZ methodology, and prefer random brainstorming for idea generation. The quality of obtained solutions also depends on the level of completeness of the problem analysis, which is more complex and time consuming in the case of interdisciplinary systems. The paper briefly describes one-semester-course of 60 hours in new product development with the Advanced Innovation Design Approach and TRIZ methodology, in which a typical industrial innovation process for one selected interdisciplinary mechatronic product is modelled.
Modelling detailed chemistry in lithium-ion batteries: Insight into performance, ageing and safety
(2018)
Modelling and Simulation of Microscale Trigeneration Systems Based on Real- Life Experimental Data
(2017)
For the shift of the energy grid towards a smarter decentralised system flexible microscale trigeneration systems will play an important role due to their ability to support the demand side management in buildings. However to harness their potential modern control methods like model predictive control must be implemented for their optimal scheduling and control. To implement such supervisory control methods, first, simple analytical models representing the behaviour of the components need to be developed. At the Institute of Energy System Technologies in Offenburg we have built a real-life microscale trigeneration plant and present in this paper the models based on experimental data. These models are qualitatively validated and their application in the future for the optimal scheduling problem is briefly motivated.
Für langfaserverstärkte Thermoplaste (LFT) wird ein repräsentatives Volumenelement (RVE) für FEM-Simulationen generiert. Dies geschieht unter Berücksichtigung von mikrostrukturellen Kenngrößen wie Faserorientierungsverteilung, -volumengehalt und -längenverteilung, die für einen charakteristischen Werkstoffzustand experimentell ermittelt wurden. Mittels Mikrostruktursimulationen wird das Kriechverhalten von LFT untersucht. Das viskoelastische Verhalten der Matrix wird experimentell an Substanzproben aus Polypropylen ermittelt und in die RVE-Simulationen mit einem modifizierten Burgers-Modell implementiert. Schließlich werden die Rechnungen mit verschiedenen, fiktiven sowie experimentell ermittelten Faserlängenverteilungen mit Kriechversuchen am LFT verglichen. Es zeigt sich eine starke Abhängigkeit des Kriechverhaltens von der Faserlänge und eine hohe Prognosegüte der Simulationen, die die experimentell ermittelte Längenverteilung berücksichtigen.
Combined heat and power production (CHP) based on solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) is a very promising technology to achieve high electrical efficiency to cover power demand by decentralized production. This paper presents a dynamic quasi 2D model of an SOFC system which consists of stack and balance of plant and includes thermal coupling between the single components. The model is implemented in Modelica® and validated with experimental data for the stack UI-characteristic and the thermal behavior. The good agreement between experimental and simulation results demonstrates the validity of the model. Different operating conditions and system configurations are tested, increasing the net electrical efficiency to 57% by implementing an anode offgas recycle rate of 65%. A sensitivity analysis of characteristic values of the system like fuel utilization, oxygen-to-carbon ratio and electrical efficiency for different natural gas compositions is carried out. The result shows that a control strategy adapted to variable natural gas composition and its energy content should be developed in order to optimize the operation of the system.
The internal crowdsourcing-based ideation within a company can be defined as an involvement of its staff, specialists, managers, and other employees, to propose solution ideas for a pre-defined problem. This paper addresses a question, how many participants of the company-internal ideation process are required to nearly reach the ideation limit for the problems with a finite number of workable solutions. To answer the research question, the author proposes a set of metrics and a non-linear ideation performance function with a positive decreasing slope and ideation limit for the closed-ended problems. Three series of experiments helped to explore relationships between the metric attributes and resulted in a mathematical model which allows companies to predict the productivity metrics of their crowdsourcing ideation activities such as quantity of different ideas and ideation limit as a function of the number of contributors, their average personal creativity and ideation efficiency of a contributors’ group.
Model-based analysis of Electrochemical Pressure Impedance Spectroscopy (EPIS) for PEM Fuel Cells
(2019)
Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) is a widely-used diagnostic technique to characterize electrochemical processes. It is based on the dynamic analysis of two electrical observables, that is, current and voltage. Electrochemical cells with gaseous reactants or products, in particular fuel cells, offer an additional observable, that is, the gas pressure. The dynamic coupling of current or voltage with gas pressure gives rise to a number of additional impedance definitions, for which we have previously introduced the term electrochemical pressure impedance spectroscopy (EPIS) [1,2]. EPIS shows a particular sensitivity towards transport processes of gas-phase or dissolved species, in particular, diffusion coefficients and transport pathway lengths. It is as such complementary to standard EIS, which is mainly sensitive towards electrochemical processes. First EPIS experiments on PEM fuel cells have recently been shown [3].
We present a detailed modeling and simulation analysis of EPIS of a PEM fuel cell. We use a 1D+1D continuum model of a fuel/air channel pair with GDL and MEA. Backpressure is dynamically varied, and the resulting simulated oscillation in cell voltage is evaluated to yield the ▁Z_( V⁄p_ca ) EPIS signal. Results are obtained for different transport situations of the fuel cell, giving rise to very complex EPIS shapes in the Nyquist plot. This complexity shows the necessity of model-based interpretation of the complex EPIS shapes. Based on the simulation results, specific features in the EPIS spectra can be assigned to different transport domains (gas channel, GDL, membrane water transport).
Die Studienanfänger in den technischen Studiengängen der Hochschulen für angewandte Wissenschaften haben nicht nur in Mathematik sondern auch in Physik sehr unterschiedliche Vorkenntnisse. Obwohl diese Fächer für das grundlegende Verständnis technischer Vorgänge von großer Bedeutung sind, kann die Ausbildung in diesen Bereichen angesichts der begrenzten dafür im Verlauf des Studiums zur Verfügung stehenden Zeitfenster nicht bei Null anfangen. Für Mathematik wurde daher von der Arbeitsgruppe cosh ein Mindestanforderungskatalog zusammengestellt und 2014 veröffentlicht. Er beschreibt Kenntnisse und Fertigkeiten, die Studienanfänger zur erfolgreichen Aufnahme eines WiMINT-Studiums (Wirtschaft, Mathematik, Informatik, Naturwissenschaft, Technik) an einer Hochschule benötigen. Inzwischen hat sich nun eine Arbeitsgruppe von Physikerinnen und Physikern an Hochschulen in Baden-Württemberg gebildet, deren Ziel es ist, einen analogen Mindestanforderungskatalog für den Bereich Physik zu erstellen. Hier wird der aktuell erreichte Stand der Arbeiten vorgestellt.
The identification and quantification of compounds in the gas phase becomes of increasing interest in the context of environmental protection, as well as in the analytical field. In this respect, the high extinction coefficients of vapours and gases in the ultraviolet wavelength region allow a very sensitive measurement system. In addition, the increased performance of the components necessary for setting up a measurement system, such as fibres, light sources and detectors has been improved. In particular the light sources and detectors offer improved stability, and the deep UV performance and solarisation resistance of fused silica fibres allow have been significantly optimized in the past years. Therefore a compact and reliable detection system with high measuring accuracy is developed. Within this paper possible applications of the system under development and recent results will be discussed.
Die Lehre auf dem Gebiet der rechnerunterstützten Methoden in der Produktentwicklung verkörpert einen zentralen Schwerpunkt der Ingenieursausbildung. Dies bedingt eine kontinuierliche Weiterentwicklung der Inhalte und der didaktischen Unterrichtsmethoden. In diesem Artikel wird die Entwicklung eines didaktischen Konzepts für die Konstruktionsausbildung zur Verbesserung der Präsentationskompetenz und Teamfähigkeit der Studierenden beschrieben und über erste Erfahrungen aus der Umsetzung in die Lehrveranstaltung „CAD/CAE“ berichtet. Die Studierenden erarbeiten in nach der Rundlitzenseilmethode strukturierten Gruppen numerische Lösungen zu Variantenrechnungen einer FEM-Aufgabe, nämlich „Berechnung der Formzahlen an Profilwellen mit Entlastungskerben“. Sie stellen ihre Ergebnisse in Form von 100-Sekunden-Vorträgen dar. Die Bewertung dieser Leistungen erfolgt nach dem Ampelschema. Eine detaillierte statistisch-psychologische Evaluation dieses didaktischen Konzepts ist Ziel weiterführender Untersuchungen.
The paper is addressing the needs of the universities regarding qualification of students as future R&D specialists in efficient techniques for successfully running innovation process. It briefly describes the program of a novel one-semester-course of 150 hours in new product development and inventive problem solving with TRIZ methodology, offered for the master students at the Beuth University of Applied Sciences in Berlin. The paper outlines multi-source educational approach, which includes a new product development project (about 50% of the complete course), theory, practical work, self-learning with the software tools for computer-aided innovation, and demonstrates examples of the students work. The research part analyses the learning experience, identifies the factors that impact the innovation and problem solving performance of the students, and underlines the main difficulties faced by the students in the course. It describes a method for measurement of education efficiency and compares the results with educational experience in the industry. The presented results can help universities to establish the education in new product development or to improve its performance.
The 40 Altshuller Inventive Principles with numerous sub-principles remain over decades the most frequently applied tool of the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving TRIZ for systematic idea generation. However, their application often requires a concentrated, creative and abstract way of thinking that can be fairly challenging for the newcomers to TRIZ. This paper describes an approach to reduce the abstraction level of inventive sub-principles and presents the results of the idea generation experiment conducted with three groups of undergraduate and graduate students from different years of study in mechanical and process engineering. The students were asked to generate and to record their individual ideas for three design problems using a pre-defined set of classical and modified sub-principles within 10 minutes. The overall outcomes of the experiment support the assumption that the less abstract wording of the modified sub-principles leads to higher number of ideas. The distribution of ideas between the fields of MATCHEM-IBD (Mechanical, Acoustic, Thermal, Chemical, Electrical, Magnetic, Intermolecular, Biological and Data processing) differs significantly between groups using modified and abstract sub-principles.
This study presents some results from a monitoring project with night ventilation and earthto-air heat exchanger. Both techniques refer to air-based low-energy cooling. As these technologies are limited to specific boundary conditions (e.g. moderate summer climate, low temperatures during night, or low ground temperatures, respectively), water-based low-energy cooling may be preferred in many projects. A comparison of the night-ventilated building with a ground-cooled building shows major differences in both concepts.
In this paper the fatigue life of three cast iron materials, namely EN-GJS-700, EN-GJV-450 and EN-GJL-250, is predicted for combined thermomechanical fatigue and high cycle fatigue loading. To this end, a mechanism-based model is used, which is based on microcrack growth. The model considers crack growth due to low frequency loading (thermomechanical and low cycle fatigue) and due to high cycle fatigue. To determine the model parameters for the cast iron materials, fatigue tests are performed under combined loading and crack growth is measured at room temperature using the replica technique. Superimposed high cycle fatigue leads to an accelerated crack growth as soon as a critical crack length and thus the threshold stress intensity factor is exceeded. The model takes this effect into account and predicts the fatigue lives of all cast iron materials investigated under combined loadings very well.
Environmentally-friendly implementation of new technologies and eco-innovative solutions often faces additional secondary ecological problems. On the other hand, existing biological systems show a lesser environmental impact as compared to the human-made products or technologies. The paper defines a research agenda for identification of underlying eco-inventive principles used in the natural systems created through evolution. Finally, the paper proposes a comprehensive method for capturing eco-innovation principles in biological systems in addition and complementary to the existing biomimetic methods and TRIZ methodology and illustrates it with an example.
Durch den verstärkten Einsatz von EDV-Geräten an den Arbeitsplätzen in Büroräumen stiegen die flächenbezogenen inneren Kühllasten deutlich an. Für die Arbeitsplätze in Fensternähe müssen EDV-gerechte Lichtverhältnisse vorhanden sein. Es werden Versuchsergebnisse eines neu entwickelten Kühlkonvektors im Fensterbereich im Zusammenhang mit Innenjalousien vorgestellt. Dieser Kühlkonvektor eignet sich auch für den kombinierten Einsatz mit Kühldecken und raumlufttechnischen (RLT)-Anlagen, wie weitere Versuche bestätigen. Der Kühlkonvektor kann auch beim Ersatz von Induktionsgeräten angewandt werden, die z.B. nach dem 4-Leiter-Prinzip angeschlossen sind. Die Untersuchungen haben gezeigt, daß mit der Kombination von Kühldecke, Kühlkonvektor und RLT-Anlage große flächenbezogene Kühllasten abgeführt werden können, ohne daß dadurch die thermische Behaglichkeit negativ beeinflußt wird. Der Luftstrom läßt sich auf das hygienisch bzw. auf das zur Entfeuchtung notwendige Maß reduzieren, wodurch sich die Betriebskosten senken. Der Anteil der drei Komponenten an der gesamten Kühllast beträgt im Mittel: 15 % RLT-Anlage, 15 % Kühlkonvektor und 70 % Kühldecke.
The purpose of this study was to 1) compare knee joint kinematics and kinetics of fake-and-cut tasks of varying complexity in 51 female handball players and 2) present a case study of one athlete who ruptured her ACL three weeks post data collection. External knee joint moments and knee joint angles in all planes at the instance of the peak external knee abduction moment (KAM) as well as moment and angle time curves were analyzed. Peak KAMs and knee internal rotation moments were substantially higher than published values obtained during simple change-of-direction tasks and, along with flexion angles, differed significantly between the tasks. Introducing a ball reception and a static defender increased joint loads while they partially decreased again when anticipation was lacking. Our results suggest to use game-specific assessments of injury risk while complexity levels do not directly increase knee loading. Extreme values of several risk factors for a post-test injured athlete highlight the need and usefulness of appropriate screenings.
The collection of selected papers of the TRIZ Future Conference 2017 is in open access and is included to the Innovator, the journal of the European TRIZ Assocation.
The title expresses goals the Kansas Geological Survey (KGS) has been working toward for some time. This report extends concepts and objectives developed while working on an earlier effort for effective interactive digital maps on the Internet. That work was reported to the 1998 DMT Workshop in Champaign, Illinois (Ross, 1998). The current project goes beyond previous efforts that focused on methods for serving the contents of a geographic information system (GIS); the points, lines, and polygons representing features of the digital geologic map and the data in the attribute tables of the GIS describing those features.
Massiv- Heiz-/Kühldecken bestehen im wesentlichen aus in der tragenden Deckenkonstruktion eingegossenen Kunststoffrohren, die je nach Jahreszeit von Heiz- bzw. Kühlwasser durchströmt verden. Das instationäre Verhalten wurde mit dem Anlagen und Simulationsprogramm TRNSYS untersucht. Anhand ausgesuchter Ergebnisse können die Anforderungen an die notwendigen Regelkonzepte abgeleitet werden. Es eignen sich für derartige Systeme, insbesondere wegen ihrer großen Speicherfähigkeit und damit Trägheit, modifizierende selbstadaptierende Regler. Aufgrund der großen Trägheit der Massivdecke ist eine direkte außentemperaturgeführte Vorlauftemperaturregelung des Wasserstromes nicht sinnvoll. Es sollte ein selbstadaptierendes Regelsystem verwendet werden, das anhand der vorangegangenen Lastverläufe die Gebäudekonstante und damit das Speicherverhalten der Räume ermittelt. Damit der Regelaufwand reduziert werden kann, sollen mehrere Räume als Gruppe zusammengefaßt werden. Als weitere Größe für das Regelkonzept ist die Speichertemperatur am Ende der Ladezeit zu messen und in das Programm mit einzubinden.
Having 22 GW of nominal power installed Germany is the leading nation in wind energy conversion. While the number of suitable installation sites ashore is limited, and the average windspeed and thus the utilization level offshore is significantly higher, more and more offshore wind farms are planned. In order to reduce the cost of building the foundations and of connecting the wind turbines to the power grid, the single plant is designed as powerful as possible and therefore the components become huge and weighty. For instance: In order to lift the nacelle with around 500 tons of weight up on the tower - which can be up to 120 m above the water level - at the time special ships and cranes are designed and built. But those firstly will be very expensive and secondly will be available only on a limited scale. Hence the installation cost of those huge wind turbines significantly influence the rentability of a wind farm. Against this background a joint research project supported by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) was started comprising the project partners Ed. Züblin AG, Berg-idl GmbH (an engineering company and a maker of special purpose machines in Altlußheim, Germany), the IPEK (institute for product development) at the university of Karlsruhe and the Hochschule Offenburg, university of applied science. Project target is the conceptual design of a heavy-duty elevator, which can be used to install the tower segments and the nacelle of a wind turbine offshore without a crane. The most relevant challenges in this context result of holding up extreme loads by means of comparatively filigree carrying structures. The paper shows some examples of structural analysis and optimization work accomplished during the project. For the structural analysis of the heavy loaded components ANSYS workbench was used. The development process was also supported by optimization tools like TOSCA and OPTIMUS. The linking of the FE solver and the optimizer provides important hints concerning improvement of the topology and the dimensions of the components. Examples of designs illustrate the development process and the methods applied.
This study aims to investigate the individual response concerning BRFs for AT when the mid-sole hardness underneath the rearfoot was systematically altered. We first identified FGs based on the footwear condition that minimised the risk for AT across BRFs. We then tested the FGs for differences in anthropometrics, footwear comfort, and running characteristics.
Autonomous humanoid robots require light weight, high torque and high speed actuators to be able to walk and run. For conventional gears with a fixed gear ratio the product of torque and velocity is constant. On the other hand desired motions require maximum torque and speed. In this paper it is shown that with a variable gear ratio it is possible to vary the relation between torque and velocity. This is achieved by introducing systems of rods and levers to move the joints of our humanoid robot ”Sweaty II”. On the basis of a variable gear ratio low speed and high torque can be achieved for those joint angles, which require this motion mode, whereas high speed and low torque can be realized for those joint angles, where it is favorable for the desired motion.
In this paper, a new method is demonstrated for online remote simulation of photovoltaic systems. The required communication technology for the data exchange is introduced and the methods of PV generator parameter extraction for the simulation models are analysed. The method shown for parameter extraction from the manufacturer data is especially useful for the commissioning procedure, where the measured installed power is transferred to standard test conditions using the simulation model and can then be easily compared with the design power. At a simulation accuracy of 2% using the software environment INSEL ® any problems with the PV generator can reliably be detected. Online simulation of a grid connected PV generator is then carried out during the operation of the photovoltaic plant. The visualisation includes both the monitored and the simulated online data sets, so that a very efficient fault detection scheme is available. The method is implemented and validated on several grid connected photovoltaic power plants in Germany. It is excellently suited to provide automatic and real time fault detection and significantly improve the commissioning procedure for photovoltaic plants of all sizes.
Sustainable Aspects force a building manager to continuous observation of actual states and developments concerning building use, energy and media flows.In the presented approach a communication structure was built up to use different software applications and tools in order to optimize the operation of the building.
This article sets the focus on methods of information technology in the Humboldt Portal, which represents an ongoing research project to develop a virtual research environment on the Internet for the legacy of Alexander von Humboldt. Based on the experiences of developing and providing the Humboldt Digital Library (www.avhumboldt.net) for more than a decade, we defined a working plan to create an Internet portal for comprehensive access to Humboldt’s writings, no matter if documents are provided as PDF files, scan images or XML-TEI documents on external archives (Google Books, Internet Archive, Deutsches Textarchiv, Bibliotheque National de France). Going far beyond services of a digital library we will provide an information network with multimedia assets, which are containing objects like terms, paragraphs, data tables, scan images, or illustrations, together with correlated properties like thematic linkage to other objects, relevant keywords with optional synonyms and dynamic hyperlinks to related translations in different languages. So the Humboldt Portal can contribute to the key question, how to present interconnected data in an appropriate form using information technologies on the Web.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the RoboCup WorldCup 2021 was held completely remotely. For this competition the Webots simulator (https://cyberbotics.com/) was used, so all teams needed to transfer their robot to the simulation. This paper describes our experiences during this process as well as a genetic learning approach to improve our walk engine to allow a more stable and faster movement in the simulation. Therefore we used a docker setup to scale easily. The resulting movement was one of the outstanding features that finally led to the championship title.
An import ban of Russian energy sources to Germany is currently being increasingly discussed. We want to support the discussion by showing a way how the electricity system in Germany can manage low energy imports in the short term and which measures are necessary to still meet the climate protection targets. In this paper, we examine the impact of a complete stop of Russian fossil fuel imports on the electricity sector in Germany, and how this will affect the climate coals of an earlier coal phase-out and climate neutrality by 2045.
Following a scenario-based analysis, the results gave a point of view on how much would be needed to completely rely on the scarce non-renewable energy resources in Germany. Huge amounts of investments would be needed in order to ensure a secure supply of electricity, in both generation energy sources (RES) and energy storage systems (ESS). The key findings are that a rapid expansion of renewables and storage technologies will significantly reduce the dependence of the German electricity system on energy imports. The huge integration of renewable energy does not entail any significant imports of the energy sources natural gas, hard coal, and mineral oil, even in the long term. The results showed that a ban on fossil fuel imports from Russia outlines huge opportunities to go beyond the German government's climate targets, where the 1.5-degree-target is achieved in the electricity system.
Durch eine stetige Preissteigerung der fossilen Energieträger werden auch im Bereich der mobilen Arbeitsmaschinen neben einer hohen Zuverlässig u.a. Forderungen nach steigenden Gesamtwirkungsgraden, mit der hierdurch einhergehenden Energieeffizienz, forciert. Auch bei mobilen Arbeitsmaschinen ist der häufig eingeschränkt zur Verfügung stehende Bauraum für Traktionsantriebe eine Herausforderung. Ziel dieser Veröffentlichung ist ein allgemeingültiger Vergleich verschiedener elektrischer Antriebsarten als Traktionsantrieb für mobile Arbeitsmaschinen.
HPTLC (High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography) is a well known and versatile separation method which shows a lot of advantages and options in comparison to other separation techniques. The method is fast and inexpensive and does not need time-consuming pretreatments. Using fiber-optic elements for controlled light-guiding, the TLC-method was significantly improved: the new HPTLC-system is able to measure simultaneously at different wavelengths without destroying the plate surface or the analytes on the surface. For registration of the sample distribution on a HPTLC-plate we developed a new and sturdy diode-array HPTLC- scanner which allows registration of spectra on the TLC- plates in the range of 198 nm to 610 nm with a spectral resolution better than 1.2 nm. The spatial resolution on plate is better than 160 micrometers . In the spectral mode, the new HPTLC-scanner delivers much more information than the commonly used TLC-scanner. The measurement of 450 spectra of one separation track does not need more than three minutes. However, in the fixed wavelength mode the contour plot can be measured within 15 seconds. In this case, the signal will be summarized and averaged over a spectral range having FWHM from 10 nm to 25 nm depending on the substance under test. The new diode-array HPTLC-scanner makes various chemometric applications possible. The new method can be used easily in clinical diagnostic systems easily, e.g. for blood and uring investigations. In addition, new applications are possible. For example, the rich structured PAHs were studied. Although the separation is incomplete the 16 compounds can be quantified using suitable wavelengths.
Grey-box modelling combines physical and data-driven models to benefit from their respective advantages. Neural ordinary differential equations (NODEs) offer new possibilities for grey-box modelling, as differential equations given by physical laws and neural networks can be combined in a single modelling framework. This simplifies the simulation and optimization and allows to consider irregularly-sampled data during training and evaluation of the model. We demonstrate this approach using two levels of model complexity; first, a simple parallel resistor-capacitor circuit; and second, an equivalent circuit model of a lithium-ion battery cell, where the change of the voltage drop over the resistor-capacitor circuit including its dependence on current and State-of-Charge is implemented as NODE. After training, both models show good agreement with analytical solutions respectively with experimental data.
Bei einem neuen Kühldeckensystem wird die Luft im Deckenhohlraum oberhalb der abgehängten Decke durch Konvektoren gekühlt, wobei die Wärmeübertragung ausschließlich durch freie Konvektion und Strahlung erfolgt. Die abgehängte Decke nimmt durch Strahlung und freie Konvektion Wärme aus dem darunterliegenden Büroraum auf und gibt sie über freie Konvektion an die Luft im Deckenhohlraum sowie durch Strahlung an die Begrenzungsflächen des Deckenhohlraumes ab. Die vom Kühlwasser durchströmten Rippenrohre nehmen ihrerseits Wärme aus der Luft im Hohlraum auf, die infolge der freien Konvektion durch die Rippenrohre strömt. Zur Aufnahme des bei starker Belastung und Dauerbetrieb anfallenden Kondensats ist unterhalb des Konvektors eine Kondensatauffangwanne angebracht. Mit dem von Rutsch erstellten Rechenprogramm ist es möglich, für verschiedenste Randbedingungen die Rippenrohre auf maximale Kühlleistung zu optimieren. Voraussetzung für die direkte Anwendung dieses Berechnungsverfahrens sind jedoch ungestörte An- und Abströmbedingungen der Luft am Konvektor. Neben der Optimierung der Rippenrohre auf Kühlleistung ist für den Aufbau der eigentlichen Decke die Luftströmung im Deckenhohlraum und die Austrittstemperatur aus den Konvektoren von entscheidender Bedeutung. Die maximale Kühlleistung der Rippenrohre kann nur erreicht werden, wenn alle Einzelrippenrohre nahezu gleichmäßig durchströmt werden und günstige Abströmverhältnisse vorhanden sind. Die Strömungsverhältnisse im Deckenhohlraum und innerhalb der Konvektoren wurden durch Rauch sichtbar gemacht und auf Video aufgezeichnet. Entscheidenden Einfluß auf die Temperaturverteilung an der Kühldecke haben die Breite des Konvektors, die Konstruktion der Kondensatauffangwanne, der Abstand der Konvektoren voneinander und der Konvektortyp. Direkt unterhalb der Kondensatauffangwanne beträgt die Temperaturdifferenz ca. 3 K. Der Temperaturgradient im Abströmbereich liegt bei ca. 0,2 bis 0,3 K/m.
To achieve Germany's climate targets, the industrial sector, among others, must be transformed. The decarbonization of industry through the electrification of heating processes is a promising option. In order to investigate this transformation in energy system models, high-resolution temporal demand profiles of the heat and electricity applications for different industries are required. This paper presents a method for generating synthetic electricity and heat load profiles for 14 industry types. Using this methodology, annual profiles with a 15-minute resolution can be generated for both energy demands. First, daily profiles for the electricity demand were generated for 4 different production days. These daily profiles are additionally subdivided into eight end-use application categories. Finally, white noise is applied to the profile of the mechanical drives. The heat profile is similar to the electrical but is subdivided into four temperature ranges and the two applications hot water and space heating. The space heating application is additionally adjusted to the average monthly outdoor temperature. Both time series were generated for the analysis of an electrification of industrial heat application in energy system modelling.
In this paper, we propose an approach for gait phase detection for flat and inclined surfaces that can be used for an ankle-foot orthosis and the humanoid robot Sweaty. To cover different use cases, we use a rule-based algorithm. This offers the required flexibility and real-time capability. The inputs of the algorithm are inertial measurement unit and ankle joint angle signals. We show that the gait phases with the orthosis worn by a human participant and with Sweaty are reliably recognized by the algorithm under the condition of adapted transition conditions. E.g., the specificity for human gait on flat surfaces is 92 %. For the robot Sweaty, 95 % results in fully recognized gait cycles. Furthermore, the algorithm also allows the determination of the inclination angle of the ramp. The sensors of the orthosis provide 6.9 and that of the robot Sweaty 7.7 when walking onto the reference ramp with slope angle 7.9.
A former remote area power supply was converted to a smart cogeneration subnet with combined heat and power to develop and validate a forecast based energy management at the University of Applied Sciences in Offenburg/Germany. Locally processed weather forecasts and forecasted demand profiles are integrated to allow a precise reaction to changes of fluctuating power sources, changes in scheduled demand profiles and to improve the energy efficiency of the supply. The management of the electrical and thermal storages is influenced by the forecasted energy contributions and the forecasted demand. Further approaches should improve the accuracy of forecasting algorithms and integrate parameter models gained of a detailed monitoring to realize predictive controllers.
Meeting the requirements of smart grids local, decentralized subnets will offer additional potentials to stabilize and compensate the utility grid mainly on the low voltage level. In a quite complex configuration these decentralized energy systems are combined power, heat and cooling power distributions. According to the regional and local availability of renewable energy sources advanced energy management concepts should consider climatic conditions as well as the state of the interacting utility grid and consumption profiles. The approach uses demonstrational setups to develop a forecast based energy management for trigeneration subnets by taking into account the running conditions of local electrical and thermal energy conversion units. This should lead to the best coverage of the demand and supporting/stabilizing the utility grid at the same time. For the first of three demonstrational projects the priorities of the subnet are given with the maximization of the CHP operation to substitute a major part of the heating and cooling power delivered by electric heaters or compression chillers.
The identification and quantification of compounds in the gas phase becomes of increasing interest in the context of environmental protection, as well as in the analytical field. In this respect, the high extinction coefficients of vapours and gases in the ultraviolet wavelength region allow a very sensitive measurement system. In addition, the increased performance of the components necessary for setting up a measurement system, such as fibres, light sources and detectors has been improved. In particular the light sources and detectors offer improved stability, and the deep UV performance and solarisation resistance of fused silica fibres allow have been significantly optimized in the past years. Therefore a compact and reliable detection system with high measuring accuracy is developed. Within this paper possible applications of the system under development and recent results will be discussed.
Previous studies of the hyphenation of gas chromatographic separation and spectrophotometric detection in the ultraviolet wavelength range between 168 and 330 nm showed a high potential for applications where the analysis of complex samples is required. Within this paper the development of a state-of-the-art detection system for compounds in the vapour phase is described, offering an improved behaviour compared to previous systems: Dependent on the requirements of established detection systems hyphenated with gas chromatography, the main components of the system have to be designed for optimum performance and reliability of the spectrophotometric detector: A deuterium lamp as a broadband light source has been selected for improved stability in the measurements. A new-type absorption cell based on fiber-optics has been developed considering the dynamic necessary to compete with existing techniques. In addition, the influence of the volume of the cell on the chromatogram needs to be analyzed. Tests for determining the performance of the absorption cell in terms of chemical and thermal influences have been carried out. A new spectrophotometer with adequate spectral resolution in the wavelength range, offering improved stability and dynamic for an efficient use in this application was developed. Furthermore, the influence of each component on the performance, reliability and stability of the sensor system will be discussed. An overview and outlook over the potential applications in the environmental, scientific and medical field will be given.
Die hohen Anforderungen vor allem an Drehmoment übertragende und mehrfachgekerbte Profilwellen im konstruktiven Umfeld moderner Maschinen zwingen uns, der Frage der Kerbwirkungen sowie Maßnahmen zu deren Milderung erhöhte Aufmerksamkeit zu widmen. Während die Kerbwirkung der geometrischen Einzelkerben bereits recht eingehend erforscht ist, liegen wesentlich komplexere Verhältnisse bei Mehrfachkerben vor, die durch die gegenseitige Beeinflussung mehrerer benachbarter Kerben entstehen. Der hier vorliegende Beitrag beschreibt erste Untersuchungsergebnisse mit der Finite-Elemente-Methode (FEM) zur gegenseitigen Wechselwirkung zweier Kerbformen "Sicherungsringnut und Zahnfußrundung" bei Zahnwellen mit Evolventenflanken nach DIN 5480. Diese Kerbkombination tritt in der Praxis häufig auf. Entsprechende Formzahldiagramme und Gestaltungshinweise werden angegeben und Näherungsformeln für die genauere Formzahlbestimmung je nach Belastungsart aufgestellt.
In diesem Beitrag wird die Anwendbarkeit von bereits in der Literatur beschriebenen und in der Praxis bewährten Entlastungsgeometrien für Wellenabsätze auf Zahnwellen mit freiem Auslauf mit der Methode der Finiten Elemente FEM untersucht. Dabei zeigte sich, dass eine direkte Verwendung der bestehenden Vorschläge nicht immer möglich war. Deshalb wurden diese Entlastungsnuten und -übergänge für eine beanspruchungsgerechte Anwendung im Bereich der Zahnwellen modifiziert und optimiert. Basierend auf den dabei erzielten Ergebnissen wurden neue konstruktive Möglichkeiten zur günstigsten Ausprägung der freien Auslaufgestaltung entwickelt und erforscht. Der beobachtete merkliche Abfall der Kerbspannung infolge von Entlastungsmöglichkeiten soll dem Konstrukteur einen Anlass geben, diese häufiger anzuwenden. Die Industrie, insbesondere kleinere Betriebe, können mithilfe der in diesem Aufsatz vorliegenden Erkenntnisse durch optimierte Dimensionierung der Profiwellen Kosten und Bauteilgewicht sparen.
Die scharfkantig eingestochenen Sicherungsringnuten (SR-Nut) in Profilwellen (Zahn- und Keilwellen) bewirken höhere Kerbwirkung. Diese ergibt sich infolge der Überlagerung zwischen SR-Nutradius und Zahnfussradius speziell bei Torsionsbeanspruchung unter Beachtung der Einflüsse der Zähnezahl z, des Bezugsdurchmessers dB und des Moduls m. Eine Möglichkeit zur Minderung dieser Kerbwirkung besteht in der absichtlichen Anbringung von umlaufenden Zusatzkerben, symmetrisch vor und hinter der nach DIN 471 genormte Hauptkerbe. Die vorliegende Arbeit soll einen weiteren Beitrag zu dem noch wenig erforschten Thema "Entlastungsnuten an Profilwellen" bringen. Der Beitrag beschreibt die numerischen Ergebnisse einer ersten Untersuchung, die bei der Entlastung von SR-Nuten auf Zahnwellen bei Zug/Druck, Biegung und Torsion entstehen. Die Ermittlung der entlastenden Wirkung erfolgt mittels der Finite-Elemente-Methode (FEM). Die Untersuchung der Kerbformzahlen und ihrer Verringerung in Abhängigkeit von den geometrischen Parametern der Zahnwelle der SR-Nut und der Entlastungkerbe sowie die daraus optimierten Ergebnisse stellen dabei das zentrale Thema dar. Die Ergebnisse werden als Diagramme und Gestaltungshinweise angegeben. Die Untersuchungen zeigen, dass sich mithilfe von Entlastungskerben mit den optimalen Geometrieverhältnissen Spannungsformzahlreduktionen bis zu ca 35% bei Zug/Druck oder Biegung bzw. ca 30% bei Torsion ermöglichen lassen. Die erzielte Entlastungswirkung ist vom Kerbtiefenverhältnis, von der Form und Lage der Entlastungsnut, vom Bundlängenverhaltnis, vom Kerbabstand zwischen Nutradius und Zahnfussradius sowie von der Belastungsart abhängig.
Der hier vorliegende Beitrag beschreibt erste Untersuchungsergebnisse mit der Finite-Elemente-Methode (FEM) zur Entlastung der Kerbspannungen an Getriebewellen mit Durchdringungskerben. Es handelt sich bei den Kerben um eine Umlaufnut mit überlagerter Querbohrung und um einen Wellenabsatz mit überlagerter Querbohrung. Die neu entwickelte Entlastungskerbe erweitert die üblichen Möglichkeiten zur Entlastung von Durchdringungskerben und ermöglicht bedeutende Spannungsreduktionen bis etwa 48% bei Biegung oder Zug/Druck. Die Entlastung bei Torsionsbelastung beträgt maximal etwa 18%. Es wurden Spannungsdiagramme der variierten Entlastungsnutparameter erstellt und Formeln zur näherungsweisen Berechnung der zu erwartenden Spannungen in der Durchdringungskerbe und in der Entlastungsnut ermittelt, zudem werden Empfehlungen zur Gestaltung der Entlastungskerbe gegeben. Dieser Beitrag bietet eine Grundlage zur weiteren Untersuchung zum Thema „räumliche Durchdringungskerben“ und deren Entlastung.
Der hier vorliegende Beitrag beschreibt erste Untersuchungsergebnisse mit der Finite-Elemente-Methode (FEM) zur Kerbspannungsanalyse an Durchdringungskerben bei Getriebewellen. Es handelt sich dabei um eine Umlaufnut sowie einen Wellenabsatz mit jeweils überlagerter Querbohrung. In beiden Fällen wird die Bohrung im Bereich der maximalen Spannungskonzentration der Umlaufnut bzw. des Wellenabsatzes angebracht. Entsprechende Formzahldiagramme werden angegeben und neue Näherungsgleichungen für eine genauere Formzahlberechnung je nach Belastungsart Torsion, Biegung und Zug/Druck aufgestellt. Die neu gewonnenen FEM-Ergebnisse erweitern die qualitativen und quantitativen Erkenntnisse über die in der Literatur vorhandenen Berechnungsverfahren und werden als Grundlage für weitere Untersuchungen zu dem bislang wenig erforschten Thema „räumliche Durchdringungskerbwirkung“ und deren Entlastung verwendet.
Der vorliegende Beitrag beschreibt erste Untersuchungsergebnisse an Wellenabsätzen mit im Kerbgrund überlagerter Schrägbohrung, mit Hilfe der Finite-Elemente-Methode (FEM). Als Beispiel hierfür können Walzen mit Heizkanälen in Walzwerken, Turbinen- und Kurbelwellen genannt werden. Es ist nicht bekannt, welche Spannungserhöhung die Schrägbohrung im Wellenabsatz hervorruft. In den Normen oder Richtlinien sind keine Angaben über Formzahlen für diese Kerbkombination vorhanden. Deshalb werden die Formzahlen für unterschiedliche schräggebohrte Wellenabsätze je Belastungsart ermittelt, ausgewertet und entsprechende Formzahldiagramme und Gestaltungshinweise angegeben.
Die bisherigen Forschungen [1] im Bereich der Entlastungen von den örtlichen Spannungskonzentrationen in den Sicherungsringnuten beschränken sich auf glatte Vollwellen. Über die Abschwächung der Kerbwirkung von Sicherungsringnuten bei Zahn- und Keilwellen lagen bisher keine systematischen Untersuchungen und keine ausreichend gesicherten Ergebnisse vor. Deshalb wurden Untersuchungen zur Ermittlung der entlastenden Wirkung der Spannungsformzahlen von SR-Nuten bei Zahnwellen durchgeführt. Diese erfolgen mittels der Finite-Elemente-Methode (FEM) für die Belastungsarten Zug/Druck, Biegung und Torsion. Eine Formzahlreduktion von ca. 35% in der SR-Nut konnte bei Biegung und Zug/Druck realisiert werden. Bei Torsion beträgt diese ca. 30 % nach der NSH bzw. 12% nach der GEH gegenüber der originalen Kerbgeometrie ohne Entlastungsnuten. Die gewonnenen Ergebnisse erweitern die qualitativen und quantitativen Erkenntnisse über die Entlastung von der mehrfachen Kerbwirkung.
Der hier vorliegende Beitrag beschreibt die mit der Finite-Elemente-Methode (FEM) gewonnenen Untersuchungsergebnisse zur Bestimmung von Stützziffern und Kerbwirkungszahlen bei Getriebewellen. Es handelt sich dabei zum einen um die Kerbüberlagerung einer umlaufenden Halbkreisnut in Kombination mit überlagerter Querbohrung. Da zur Bestimmung der Stützwirkungszahlen die Berechnung der bezogenen Spannungsgradienten in Tiefenrichtung benötigt wird, wurden die Parameter der Kerbgeometrie (der Umlaufnutradius sowie der Querbohrungsdurchmesser) variiert. Als Ergebnis dieser Arbeit wurde festgehalten, dass sich die Formzahl infolge der Durchdringungskerbe im Vergleich zur Formzahl einer Einzelkerbe (z. B. Umlaufnut oder Querbohrung) erhöht und dementsprechend erhöht sich die Kerbwirkungszahl deutlich im Vergleich zu einer Einzelkerbe. Die numerisch erfassten Kerbwirkungszahlen
an den erforschten Durchdringungskerben wurden mit analytischen Ansätzen aus der Fachliteratur verglichen. Entsprechende Diagramme und Zahlenwerte werden zur Abschätzung der Kerbwirkungs- und Stützzahlen je nach Belastungsart Torsion, Biegung und Zug/Druck angegeben.
Viele hochbeanspruchte Bauteile müssen zur Erfüllung ihres konstruktiven Zwecks mit Durchdringungskerben versehen werden. Infolge der gegenseitigen Wechselwirkung gelten für die Kerbwirkung dieser Art von Mehrfachkerben andere Gesetzmäßigkeiten als bei Einzelkerben. Die Weiterentwicklung der Lehre von der Tragfähigkeitsberechnung höchstbeanspruchter Maschinenelemente macht es notwendig, sich mit der Durchdringungskerbwirkung eingehend zu befassen. Thum und Svenson [1] entwickelten im Jahr 1949 ein Näherungsverfahren zur Abschätzung der Formzahl an einem zugbelasteten Stab mit Durchdringungskerben. In vielen Lehrbüchern findet dieses Verfahren Anwendung. Aus heutiger Sicht erscheint die Eignung der aus diesem Ansatz erzielten Ergebnisse als dringend überprüfungswürdig. Das thum’sche Verfahren wird unter die Lupe genommen. Der hier vorliegende Beitrag präsentiert mit Hilfe der Finiten-Elemente-Methode (FEM) neue Untersuchungsergebnisse an zugbeanspruchten Stäben mit Halbkreisnut und überlagerter Querbohrung. Diese ergaben, dass die Berechnung nach [1] Lücken aufweist. Ihr Ansatz stellt für den heutigen Entwicklungsstand eine mit zu großen Abweichungen behaftete Näherungshypothese dar.
In this paper a practical way for fatigue life prediction of rubber products under multiaxial loads is shown. This is done by means of fracture mechanical concepts and the energy release rate as the failure criterion. Due to a FEA post-processor the potential energy release rate might be calculated at every material point supposed there was a crack. And therefore the risk of failure and with the help of a strain number curve the time to fatigue is able to be calculated by FEA. This concept is applied for an estimation of the life time of a test specimen with tensile loading from fatigue data of a shear loaded specimen of different design. This rather more theoretical concept of the energy release rate is complemented by experimental crack growth data by a Tear Fatigue Analyzer with its great advantage of reduction of testing time and costs compared to those of fatigue tests. For some materials a thorough characterization of crack growth and fatigue behavior is presented and is applied to estimate the time to fatigue by FEA for a real component under multiaxial loads.
Mit gleichem kommunalem Mehrzweck-Fahrzeug (Abb. 1) wurden mehrere Fahrzyklen mit konventionellem Dieselantrieb und mit parallelem diesel-elektrischem Hybridantrieb simuliert. Aus den Ergebnissen der realen Fahrzyklen mit konventionellem Dieselmotorantrieb ließen sich die Kraftstoffeinsparpotenziale mit dem Hybridmotor und den verschiedenen Maßnahmen wie Start-Stopp, Rekuperation und Boost ermitteln. Selbst bei diesem Kommunalfahrzeug lassen sich Kraftstoffeinsparungen bis über 20 % nachweisen, obwohl die Fahrzyklen für Hybridanwendungen nicht besonders attraktiv sind. Deutlich höhere Potenziale liegen beispielsweise bei Gabelstaplern und Baumaschinen vor.
Um Rückschlüsse auf das Vorgehen von Studierenden beim Lesen technischer Darstellungen ziehen zu können, wurden 49 Probanden aus dem Studiengang „Maschinenbau“ der Hochschule Offenburg bei ihrer Lösungssuche für eine zeichnerische Aufgabe mit Hilfe der Eyetracking-Technik beobachtet. Die Analyse der empirischen Untersuchungen legt die Vermutung nahe, dass die zunehmende Digitalisierung der Gesellschaft verstärkt zu einem punktuellen und flüchtigen Wahrnehmungsverhalten führen. Ruhe und Gelassenheit im Umgang mit Informationen gehen verloren, ebenso das Denken im Kontext. Nach Ansicht der Autoren sollte in der Ausbildung deshalb eine stärkere Konzentration auf die Grundbausteine und die grundlegenden Zusammenhänge des jeweiligen Fachgebietes, Entschleunigung, Förderung von Versteh-, Abstraktions- und Denkfähigkeit und auf der Motivation zur studentischen Eigenleistung liegen.
Eye-Tracking-Analyse des Betrachtungsverhaltens bei Micro-Präsentationen in der CAE-Ausbildung
(2015)
Die Zielsetzung des vorliegenden Beitrags ergibt sich aus der persönlichen Motivation der Autoren, das visuelle Verhalten und das Handeln vom jungen Ingenieur beim Micro-Präsentieren technischer Inhalte und Lösungsergebnisse in bildlicher und begrifflicher Form besser zu verstehen und somit effizienter unterstützen zu können. Dabei wurden mehrere Einzelpersonen aus dem Studiengang des Maschinenbaus der Hochschule Offenburg mit Hilfe der Eye-Tracking-Technick beobachtet. Die Probanden befinden sich im 6. Semester, sind im Alter von 21 bis 24 Jahren und zeichnen sich durch einen einheitlichen Ausbildungsstand aus. Die Versuchszeit für die Präsentation der Aufgabe betrug 100 Sekunden. Die Analyse der gewonnenen Daten dieser empirischen Laboruntersuchung erlaubt erste Einblicke in die visuelle Wahrnehmung technischer Objekte beim Vortragen.
The German Weather Service (DWD) releases a heat warning, when the weather forecast provides a warm, humid, sunny, and windless weather condition during the next days. The heat stress is calculated by the so called Klima-Michel model. If the apparent air temperature exceeds ca. 32°C / 38°C, there is a strong / extreme heat stress. The smallest forecast area is each administrative district. As people (and especially the vulnerable population) stay most of the time indoors, the heat health warning system was extended by the prediction of heat stress in typical rooms. Therewith it is feasible to forecast the heat stress using a combination of the outdoor and indoor heat stress. The prediction for the indoor heat stress is based on the same weather forecast like the Heat Health Warning Systems (HHWS).and calculates the heat stress by the PMV-model (predicted mean vote). Based on a sophisticated data analysis and simulation study, realistic but summer-critical living situations were defined and implemented in the building simulation program ESP-r. As the simulation runs especially for extreme weather conditions, a simplified building model cannot be used. Standardized input/output routines and an adaptive handover of start values provide for short run times for each forecast area. Good building designs and urban planning provide effective measures to reduce heat stress in cities. However, we have to also pay attention to the present building stock under climate change and a higher heat-wave risk. The extended German HHWS provide information for the emergency services to support the social assistants during heat waves.
The increasing diffusion of rapidly developing AI technologies led to the idea of the experiment to combine TRIZ-based automated idea generation with the natural language processing tool ChatGPT, using the chatbot to interpret the automatically generated elementary solution principles. The article explores the opportunities and benefits of a novel AI-enhanced approach to teaching systematic innovation, analyses the learning experience, identifies the factors that affect students' innovation and problem-solving performance, and highlights the main difficulties students face, especially in interdisciplinary problems.
Microscale trigeneration systems are highly flexible in their operation and thus offer the technical possibility for peak load shifting in building demand side management. However to harness their potential modern control methods such as model predictive control must be implemented for their optimal scheduling. In literature the need for experimental investigation of microscale trigeneration systems to identify typical characteristics of the components and their interactions has been identified. On a real-life setup control specific information of the components is collected and lessons learnt during commissioning of the equipment is shared. The data is analysed to draw the vital characteristics of the system and it will be used for creating models of the components that can be utilised for optimal control.
The transformation of the building energy sector to a highly efficient, clean, decentralised and intelligent system requires innovative technologies like microscale trigeneration and thermally activated building structures (TABS) to pave the way ahead. The combination of such technologies however presents a scientific and engineering challenge. Scientific challenge in terms of developing optimal thermo-electric load management strategies based on overall energy system analysis and an engineering challenge in terms of implementing these strategies through process planning and control. Initial literature research has pointed out the need for a multiperspective analysis in a real life laboratory environment. To this effect an investigation is proposed wherein an analytical model of a microscale trigeneration system integrated with TABS will be developed and compared with a real life test-rig corresponding to building management systems. Data from the experimental analysis will be used to develop control algorithms using model predictive control for achieving the thermal comfort of occupants in the most energy efficient and grid reactive manner. The scope of this work encompasses adsorption cooling based microscale trigeneration systems and their deployment in residential and light commercial buildings.
Autonomous humanoid robots need high torque actuators to be able to walk and run. One problem in this context is the heat generated. In this paper we propose to use water evaporation to improve cooling of the motors. Simulations based on thermodynamic calculations as well as measurements on real actuators show that, under the assumption of the load of a soccer game, cooling can be considerably improved with relatively small amounts of water.
Die Hochschule Offenburg begleitet seit Juli 2006 in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Fraunhofer ISE in Freiburg, die solar unterstützte Klimatisierung der Festo AG & Co. KG in Esslingen im Rahmen des Forschungsvorhabens Solarthermie2000plus. Dabei wurde die bereits bestehende Adsorptionskälteanlage, die bisher mit Gaskesseln und Kompressorenabwärme betrieben wurde, durch eine Solaranlage als dritte Wärmequelle ergänzt.
Economic growth and ecological problems have pushed industries to switch to eco-friendly technologies. However, environmental impact is still often neglected since production efficiency remains the main concern. Patent analysis in the field of process engineering shows that, on the one hand, some eco-issues appear as secondary problems of the new technologies, and on the other hand, eco-friendly solutions often show lower efficiency or performance capability. The study categorizes typical environmental problems and eco-contradictions in the field of process engineering involving solids handling and identifies underlying inventive principles that have a higher value for environmental innovation. Finally, 42 eco-innovation methods adapting TRIZ are chronologically presented and discussed.