All projects from the School of Engineering
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SERAN - Self-Regenerating Anodes: Durability Improvement of SOFC Technology by Novel Smart Materials with Sulphur Tolerance
The overall aim of this consortium is the development and demonstration of a novel sulphur tolerant catalyst, which will be applied as catalytic active anode material in SOFCs. The here aimed new anode catalyst has to withstand common sulphur contamination levels of about 30 mg/m3 in natural gas fuels, while ...
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SMARTCAT - Development of a „smart concept“ for a biogas upgrade by continuous CO2 methanation
The aim of the project is the development and demonstration of a new concept for a continuously operated CO2 methanation reactor for organic sources. On base of a novel and innovative concept, a self-regenerating sorption catalyst (SMARTCAT), it has to be demonstrated how residual CO2 from biogas plants can be ...
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TARPSY
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Development of a method for optimized fleet management
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SpeQua - Community Energy Storage System
Energy storage systems will play a cengtral role in the future smart regions with a high penetration by renewable energy sources. IN this project, different energy storage systems were investigated, compared, characterized and simulated in a realistic simulation scenarios of a AEW smart region in Rheinfelden. ...
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Advanced Electronic Personal Dosemeter
We develop an electronic personal dosemeter that should be able to measure pulsed radiation as it is used in CT.
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CVE Pilatus
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Innovative electric Power Unit
The aim of this project is the development of a new drive unit, which is robust and compact and also can be manufactured at a low price. A new drive unit, which is robust, compact and low-cost is to be developed using a special component. For this purpose all constructive details and the aspects related to the ...
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Towards Smart Energy Regions: Exploring Future Energy-Systems
In support of the development towards smart energy regions, this project wants to explore integrated transition approaches on the demand and supply side, evaluating the most promising elements from behaviour change programmes, business initiatives, policy strategies, measures, and technologies at regional level. ...
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Adastec
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Optimal integration of renewable energy sources in low voltage distribution grids
In this project, real low voltage distribution grids are being investigated and economic solutions for integration of renewable energy sources investigated. Besides grid studies, this includes but is not limited to, line voltage regulators, active power control, reactive power control, control of battery energy ...
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SCCER CREST
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SCCER-FURIES PHASE I
The main research challenge is to build a realistic technical model of the Swiss energy system including the transmission systems, which model can be used for planning, operation, and economic evaluation of the system. This model must comprise: location of renewable generation and the limited predictability of ...
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Smart Cities
Smart cities & regions are innovative, forward-looking, interlinked municipalities, cities and city regions which are designed around people and focused on respect for the environment. They are characterised by a high quality of life and an efficient use of resources. They achieve this by creating intelligent links ...
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Swiss Agile Study 2014
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T-NOVA
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is an emerging concept, which refers to the migration of certain network functionalities, traditionally performed by hardware elements, to virtualized IT infrastructures, where they are deployed as software components. NFV leverages commodity servers and storage, including ...
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MobileMall
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Coated Diamonds for Improved Adhesion (DiAd)
Vitrified-bond diamond grinding tools bring numerous advantages to grinding processes, however have short lifetimes due to poor adhesion between the diamond particles and the bond matrix causing pulling-out of grains from the tool. In this project novel coatings were developed on the diamond particles via ...
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Energy self-sufficient measurement system for leak detection in buried water pipes
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Evaluation "Flipped Classroom"
In the spring semester 2014, the module "Algorithms and Data Structures" with 3 groups of 25 students each will be conducted at the ZHAW, School of Engineering. Two groups are taught in the traditional lecture format, one group is taught according to the "flipped classroom" method.The research project will ask ...
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NoSQL Data Warehouse
In this project we evaluated query processing features of various NoSQL databases such as Cassandra, Redis, MongoDB, etc. We performed a detailed performance analysis on multi-dimensional point and range queries.
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SODES: Swiss Open Data Exploration System
In recent years, national and international institutions, governments and NGOs have made large amounts of data publicly available: there exist literally thousands of open data sources, with temperature measurements, stock market prices, population and income statistics etc. However, most open data sets are provided ...
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Biocidal and microorganism repelling functionalization of multilayer polymerical tubes for drinking water installations in supply networks
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Fiber Optic Rotational Seismometer for extended Near Field Region of Earthquake Focuses
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Novel Catheter Tracking System - NoCaTS
The aim of the NoCaTS (Novel Catheter Tracking System) project is to develop a system for tracking catheters without having to use contrast dye. NoCaTS provides a revolutionary catheter tracking system with an integrated sensor applying the Trackcath method. The catheter visualization is normally performed with ...