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The largest artificial Sun in the world

The largest ar­ti­fi­cial Sun in the world

March 22, 2017  Syn­light con­sists of a to­tal of 149 high-pow­er light sources, each of which is a sev­en-kilo­watt xenon short-arc lamp, as used in cin­e­ma pro­jec­tors. Each source can be in­di­vid­u­al­ly con­trolled, which al­lows var­i­ous con­fig­u­ra­tions and tem­per­a­tures in the fo­cal point – even in three si­mul­ta­ne­ous ex­per­i­ments.

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Image 1/14, Credit: Markus Hauschild.
Thermobattery TESIS

Ther­mo­bat­tery TESIS

September 13, 2017  With TESIS, DLR is pro­vid­ing a test fa­cil­i­ty with which stor­age tech­nolo­gies can be de­vel­oped on an ap­pli­ca­tion-ori­ent­ed and in­dus­tri­al scale.

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Image 2/14, Credit: DLR (CC-BY 3.0).
Smart rotor blades

Smart ro­tor blades

December 6, 2017  The 20-me­tre-long ro­tor blade was con­struct­ed at the DLR Cen­ter for Lightweight-Pro­duc­tion-Tech­nol­o­gy in Stade.

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Image 3/14, Credit: DLR (CC-BY 3.0).
Testing performance and durability of reflectors and receivers

Test­ing per­for­mance and dura­bil­i­ty of re­flec­tors and re­ceivers

March 6, 2014  Re­searchers at the DLR In­sti­tute of So­lar Re­search test the re­ceiv­er per­for­mance at the QUARZ Cen­ter in Cologne, in­ves­ti­gat­ing the per­cent­age of sun­light that the tubes con­vert in­to heat . The tests are car­ried in the El­liRec test stand.

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Image 4/14, Credit: DLR/Ernsting.
Mirror field of the solar tower in Jülich

Mir­ror field of the so­lar tow­er in Jülich

July 4, 2011  At the Jülich site, set up on an area cov­er­ing about eight hectares, are 2153 mov­ing mir­rors that con­cen­trate the so­lar ra­di­a­tion on­to a re­ceiv­er atop the 60-me­tre tow­er.

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Image 5/14, Credit: DLR/Lannert.
DLR solar furnace in Cologne

DLR so­lar fur­nace in Cologne

September 8, 2011  A 57 square me­tre mir­ror col­lects sun­light and di­rects it to­wards the facetted mir­rors (left in the pic­ture). These mir­rors con­cen­trate the in­com­ing ra­di­a­tion up to around 5200 times and di­rect it to the re­search lab­o­ra­to­ry of the Cologne so­lar fur­nace (the beam of light can be seen on the right of the im­age).

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Image 6/14, Credit: DLR (CC-BY 3.0).
Hydrogen production using solar energy

Hy­dro­gen pro­duc­tion us­ing so­lar en­er­gy

November 29, 2017  DLR sci­en­tists and their re­search part­ners test and de­vel­op new ways to pro­duce hy­dro­gen us­ing so­lar en­er­gy at the Platafor­ma So­lar de Almería.

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Image 7/14, Credit: DLR/Ernsting.
DLR is developing a hydrogen tank

DLR is de­vel­op­ing a hy­dro­gen tank

June 25, 2014  The test fa­cil­i­ty for the hy­dro­gen tank at the DLR In­sti­tute of En­gi­neer­ing Ther­mo­dy­nam­ics in Stuttgart.

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Image 8/14, Credit: DLR/Eppler.
Hydrogen from wind and solar energy

Hy­dro­gen from wind and so­lar en­er­gy

January 22, 2014  Pro­ton Ex­change Mem­brane (PEM) elec­trol­y­sers can go from start-up to full load op­er­a­tion with­in min­utes and thus adapt to the fluc­tu­at­ing sup­ply of wind and so­lar pow­er.

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Image 9/14, Credit: DLR/Ernsting.
Micro gas turbine

Mi­cro gas tur­bine

April 4, 2019  Re­searchers at the DLR In­sti­tute of Com­bus­tion Tech­nol­o­gy are de­vel­op­ing spe­cial com­bus­tion sys­tems in Stuttgart. 

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Flameless combustion

Flame­less com­bus­tion

April 4, 2019  Ni­tro­gen ox­ides play an un­pleas­ant role dur­ing the com­bus­tion of fos­sil fu­els. They are re­spon­si­ble for acid rain and are al­so harm­ful to the res­pi­ra­to­ry tract. DLR re­searchers have been able to demon­strate that the prin­ci­ple of flame­less com­bus­tion (‘FLOX®’, or FLame­less OX­i­da­tion) in typ­i­cal gas tur­bine con­di­tions promis­es re­li­able com­bus­tion in pow­er plants with low ni­tro­gen ox­ides emis­sions. 

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Production of hydrogen at DLR

Pro­duc­tion of hy­dro­gen at DLR

December 7, 2011  Elec­trol­y­sis test stand with DLR-de­vel­oped elec­trodes for al­ka­line wa­ter elec­trol­y­sis. DLR re­searchers are work­ing on more ef­fi­cient meth­ods of pro­duc­ing hy­dro­gen by elec­trol­y­sis.

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Image 12/14, Credit: DLR.
Direct solar steam generation and storage

Di­rect so­lar steam gen­er­a­tion and stor­age

April 5, 2019  The Ger­man Aerospace Cen­ter (DLR) and En­de­sa test di­rect so­lar steam gen­er­a­tion and en­er­gy stor­age in this pi­lot plant in Car­bon­eras, lo­cat­ed in south­ern Spain. In this type of so­lar pow­er plant, steam is pro­duced di­rect­ly from con­cen­trat­ed so­lar ra­di­a­tion and used to drive a gen­er­a­tor. The high­light of this fa­cil­i­ty is a new sys­tem that ef­fi­cient­ly stores en­er­gy, both as sen­si­ble and la­tent heat. The stored en­er­gy can be used to gen­er­ate elec­tric­i­ty even at night.  

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Image 13/14, Credit: DLR (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
1978: For the first time, a car in Europe is fuelled with hydrogen

1978: For the first time, a car in Eu­rope is fu­elled with hy­dro­gen

March 16, 2016  1978: For the first time, a car in Eu­rope is fu­elled with hy­dro­gen.

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Image 14/14, Credit: DLR CC-BY 3.0.

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