The 6th International Conference on Power Science and Engineering (ICPSE) took place in St. Petersburg, Russia, at the end of 2017, where numerous specialist presentations were given on current and international topics from research, development and application in power engineering.
The Director of the Institute of Process Engineering, Process Automation and Metrology (IPM), Prof. Alexander Kratzsch, and his colleagues Torsten Klette and Dr. Clemens Schneider presented the activities of the IPM and their work in the field of thermal energy storage systems for large-scale applications.
The ICPSE aims to promote international academic exchange and cooperation in the field of energy technology and offers researchers from all over the world the opportunity to exchange ideas and the latest theoretical and application-oriented research results.
As part of ICPSE, the 6th International Conference on Mechatronics and Control Engineering (ICMCE) and the 4th International Conference on Mechanical Properties of Materials (ICMPM) were held in parallel, at which research work on the topics of mechatronics and materials science was presented.
The strongly international orientation of the conferences included participants from Iceland, Ireland, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Pakistan, China, Malaysia, Denmark, South Korea, Finland, Indonesia, Spain, South Africa, Taiwan, Brazil, Algeria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany. IPM employees were the only German representatives at the conference.
During the talks with participants from various energy technology application fields, global challenges of energy supply and possible solutions and intersections were discussed.
The IPM gave two presentations and thus contributed to the conference program.
Figure 1: Torsten Klette during his presentation
In his presentation on "Model development and dynamic simulation of a thermal high-performance storage system with the simulation code ATHLET to increase the flexibility of thermal power plants", Torsten Klette presented results on model development and dynamic simulation of the behavior of mixed preheaters and thermal energy storage systems in connection with experimental results from the THERESA test facility at the Zittau power plant laboratory. The investigations were carried out as part of the ERDF-funded project "Highly transient thermal energy storage system for a plant-friendly and efficient energy-efficient flexibilization of thermal energy plants - HOTHES".
Figure 2: Dr. Clemens Schneider during his presentation
In his presentation on "Methods to increase the flexibility of Power Plant Processes by the Implementation of Thermal Energy Storages", Dr. Clemens Schneider presented the work carried out as part of the ESF-funded research training group "New Systems for Resource Conservation" in cooperation with the ERDF-funded project "Highly Transient Thermal Energy Storage System". The concepts for making thermal energy systems more flexible by integrating appropriate energy storage systems were presented in order to compensate for load fluctuations due to volatile feed-in from alternative energy sources.
By participating in the events, the IPM made it clear that the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences is attracting international attention as a location for teaching and research in energy technology.
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Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alexander Kratzsch
Phone: 03583 / 61 24 282
E-mail: a.kratzsch(at)hszg.de