Due to the rapid increase of wind and photovoltaic generation, flexible storage applications become more important. Electric vehicles are supposed as one option to fill the gap between a fixed energy demand and a stochastic feed in from fluctuating energy sources. But the charging loads will...

A Phase Change Slurry (PCS) is a latent heat storage and transfer medium consisting of a Phase Change Material (PCM) as a dispersed phase and a carrier fluid as a continuous phase. PCSs have a high energy density because they use not only the sensible heat capacity of the carrier fluid, but also...

Today's management information and decision-making can benefit from computer-based, flexible Executive Information Systems (EIS). Hans-Jörg Bullinger and Heinrich Huber, of the Fraunhofer-lnstitut for Industrial Engineering in Stuttgart look in some detail at management support with EIS and the...