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Institute of Low-Carbon Industrial Processes



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DLR energy research provides vital contributions to the decarbonised energy system of the future and to the transition phase. The focus is on sustainable energy supply as a key element to shaping the energy system transformation and achieving national and global climate goals. The portfolio includes renewable energy production, energy conversion technologies and energy storage as well as energy system analysis.

The Institute of Low-Carbon Industrial Processes is augmenting DLR’s research portfolio by adding the new focal area CO2-reduction for industrial processes. Thus, broadening the scope of topics and expertise relevant for the energy transition by addressing the specific requirements and research needs to decarbonise huge energy-intensive industrial sectors (power plants, steelmaking, cement industry, petrochemical industries, chemical industries, and primary aluminium production). At the same time, the research topics of the institute complement the activities for sustainable power generation and storage.

Thus, the Institute of Low-Carbon Industrial Processes strengthens DLR’s competences in the socially and economically highly relevant field of energy research and making a significant contribution to the major challenge to significantly reduce CO2 and pollutant emissions from industrial processes and power plants in the decade to come.

Topics in research and development are:

  • High-temperature heat pumps as a large-scale option for combined heat and power generation including the option to convert fossil power plants into low-carbon energy suppliers - Third Life of Coal Fired Power Plants.
     
  • Provision of renewable high-temperature heat for energy-intensive processes in key industries (e.g. chemical and cement industries)
     
  • Decarbonization of energy-intensive industrial processes (e.g. steel production) that are difficult or impossible to electrify

 

Contact Cottbus:

German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Institute of Low-Carbon Industrial Processes
Walther-Pauer-Straße 5
03046 Cottbus

 

Contact Zittau:

German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Institute of Low-Carbon Industrial Processes
Schwenninger Weg 1
02763 Zittau


Contact
Prof. Dr. Uwe Riedel
Director

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Institute of Low-Carbon Industrial Processes

Cottbus

Tel.: +49 355 355645 01

Dipl.oec. Karin Eichentopf
Head of Administration and Infrastructure

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Institute of Low-Carbon Industrial Processes

Berlin

Tel.: +49 30 67055 320

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