A productive and successful kick off meeting of our new project “AbSorbEnt” took place at Graz University of Technology mid of October. The consortium consisting of partners from Graz University of Technology (Institute of Thermal Engineering & Institute of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Technology), EAW Energieanlagenbau GmbH Westenfeld, and proionic is looking forward to a fruitful cooperation.
Aim of the project is to develop ionic liquids (IL) and deep eutectic solvents (DES) that can replace the currently used Lithium bromide (LiBr). The costs for LiBr increased significantly over the last years and the maintenance effort in LiBr systems is high due to crystallization of the absorbent and corrosion issues. By using ILs or DES the mentioned limitations should be eliminated, in addition, the consortium aims to significantly increase the operating temperature of the absorption heat pumps which can be realized because of the high thermal stability of ILs and DES, respectively.

Ao. Univ.-Prof. René Rieberer (Institute of Thermal Engineering, Consortium leader)

“We are very happy that we received a funding from the FFG for this project! I personally think that we will be able to achieve a sustainable project success because of our diverse and experienced team. We are looking forward to the cooperation!”

This project is funded by the FFG (project no.: FO999905735) with funds from the climate and energy fund and is carried out as part of the Energy Research program 2022.