Test bench for the characterization of domestic hot water modules
Hydraulic hardware-in-the-loop test stand for bivalent heating systems
Equipment
- Indoor test facilities with two sun simulators for performance and reliability tests, up to 1.200 W/m²
- Testing facilities for pressure, suction and thrust loads on solar modules
- 400 m² test roofs for reliability tests on collectors and systems as well as performance tests on solar collectors up to 180 °C
- Test facility for air/water- and brine/water-heat pumps in dynamic operation
- Two outdoor solar-tracking test stands with an effective area of 20 m²
- Test facility for solar systems in accordance with EN 12976
- Test facilities for thermal storage tanks, control test facility (EN 12977)
- Evaluation of heat exchanger single tubes and coiled tubes
- Walk-in climate chambers (75 m³ und 180 m³)
- Vacuum coating facilities (sputtering and PECVD)
- Optical laboratory for spectrally-resolved transmission and reflection measurements (UV-VIS-NIR-MIR), spectral ellipsometry (0.24 to 33 µm) including temperature control of samples, biaxial photo-goniometer for scattering or light-directing glazing systems
- Facilities for ageing tests for glass and absorber surfaces (condensation, temperature, corrosive media)
- Test facilities for glazing and facade elements, determination of thermal transmission coefficient (U-value) and the total energy transmittance (g-value) as well as long-term stress
- Performance and reliability tests on heat pipes
- Test facilities for insulation materials (reliability, thermal conductivity)
- Hardware-in-the-loop-experimental facilities for renewable heat/power-systems
- Test facility for heat transfer stations