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NEWS6 Apr 2017News

DLR - AIST agreement for cooperation on energy research

EU-Japan cooperation

In Germany and Japan, governments have set ambitious goals for transforming the energy system and supporting environmental protection. Renewable energies are increasingly being developed and efficiency measures strengthened. In both countries, energy research is playing a major role. In this context, the scientific collaboration between the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) and the Japanese National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) is expanded. Like DLR, AIST carries out application-orientated research and is a state-funded research organisation.

First on the collaborative agenda is efficient thermoelectric energy converters and battery research. Thermoelectric generators convert waste heat from combustion or industrial processes into electrical energy. By doing so they can help reduce fuel consumption in vehicles and make waste heat usable once again. In the battery research area, powerful lithium-ion batteries that can work reliably even at low temperatures are expected to be collaboratively developed. This is important for batteries in electric vehicles that still need to operate in winter. The agreement includes the possibility of extending the cooperation between the two partners to other common areas.

 

Source: DLR

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