Decarbonisation and Resource Efficiency

The decarbonisation of the energy supply and all production processes is a complex technical problem area. In addition to electrical energy, the focus is particularly on the areas of heating and cooling supply as well as mobility and the coupling of the aforementioned sectors.

However, the actual mechanisms of heat transfer and, if necessary, material conversion take place on interfaces. Here, the interaction with new materials plays just as much a role as the trend towards miniaturisation.

Advances in the field of digitalisation will in future allow the provision, analysis and interpretation of operating data from energy and production plants, as well as the processing of data, for example, for numerical planning, operational and yield optimisation as well as for automated fault detection.
The topic area of decarbonisation also includes all measures for increasing the energy and resource efficiency of processes, tool equipment and components, including their metrological recording and material optimisation. Important areas here are the development of improved drive concepts, the electrification of road freight transport and the expansion of assistance systems with the aim of fully autonomous driving.