Research Projects

  • Smart transformers as the power supply of the future for industrial mechanical engineering
    The aim of the project is to significantly increase the efficiency of the overall system as well as the controllability and to determine additional digital services based on measurement data. In con-crete terms, the aim is to make contributions to the development, research and testing of new types of low-voltage isolating transformers in industrial mechanical engineering. To achieve its goals, the consortium is using power electronic circuits with high-frequency transformers instead of classic 50Hz transformers. The analysis is being expanded to include the creation of a concept for smart services. For verification purposes, laboratory samples of the components and circuit solutions to be researched will be developed, constructed and examined by measurement. The work is being carried out in close coordination with the other consortium partners.
    Led by: Dr.-Ing. Dennis Kampen, Block Transformatoren-Elektronik GmbH
    Year: 2019
    Funding: BMWi
    Duration: 3 Years
  • Speed4E - Innovative High-Speed Powertrain Concept For Highly Efficient Electric Vehicles
    High-speed concepts are increasingly being used for in electrified powertrains, which contribute to a weight reduction by employing very high power densities.
    Led by: Marco Mileti (TU München)
    Year: 2018
    Funding: Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi)
    Duration: 3 Years, 3 Month
  • HyTowering - Optimization of the design of hybrid wind towers and development of a suitable monitoring concept for damage detection and quantification
    To reach the government's plans to extend renewable energies, onshore wind turbines (OWT) need to be more powerful. Nevertheless, the higher wind turbine classes as well as the lack of suitable locations requires higher towers due to the connection between hub height and wind speed.
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Steffen Marx
    Year: 2018
    Funding: Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi)
    Duration: 3 Years
  • Mobilise
    The goal of this line of research is to plan and design the mobility of tomorrow and to provide scientific and interdisciplinary support. Within the scope of numerous projects in the fields of digitalisation, energy system transformation, production and lightweight construction, scientists are developing approaches to solving current social, ecological, technological and economical challenges.
    Year: 2017
    Funding: Ministry of Science and Culture - Lower Saxony
    Duration: 5 Years
  • PV-Enerate - Advanced PV Energy Rating
    The aim of this project is to extend the metric for an energy-based photovoltaic classification to roof-mounted photovoltaics as well as to the fast-growing fields of bifacial and building-integrated photovoltaics.
    Led by: Dr. Stefan Winter, PTB
    Year: 2017
    Funding: European Union (EU)
    Duration: 3 Years
  • ReLoS - Renewable Lower Saxony – scenarios for electricity supply in Lower Saxony in 2050
    In December 2014, the State of Lower Saxony commissioned the study "Scenarios on energy supply in Lower Saxony in 2050". From the feedback of the members of the round table on this study, the need for an additional consideration of time-resolved energy scenarios was obvious. At this point, the project presented here, based on the creation of higher-resolution energy scenarios in a consortium between ISFH, ifes / LUH, efz and CUTEC, was established.
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rolf Brendel
    Year: 2016
    Funding: Lower Saxony Ministry for the Environment, Energy and Climate Change (NMU)
    Duration: 6 Month
  • WinConFat - Fatigue of materials of onshore and offshore wind energy structures made of reinforced and pre-stressed concrete under high cycle loading
    Due to wind and wave loads, wind turbines (WT) are subjected to high dynamic loads, making their foundation structures and piles prone to fatigue. Up to now, piles in wind turbines and even foundations in offshore wind turbines (OWT) are predominantly built as steel constructions. The efficient application of reinforced and pre-stressed concrete structures in WTs and OWTs is presently hampered by the conservative design concept against fatigue, in particular with respect to high-strength concrete. An update of the design concept having its origin in the 1990ies requires comprehensive fatigue tests on concrete, reinforced concrete and their compounds.
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Steffen Marx
    Year: 2016
    Funding: Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi)
    Duration: 3 Years
  • HAPT - Highly Accelerated Pitch Bearing Test
    Based on the operating conditions of blade bearings, the aim of the project ist to develop a calculation model considering damage mechanisms like rolling contact fatigue and wear as well as the three- dimensional stress distribution under operational load.
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerhard Poll
    Year: 2016
    Funding: Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) / IIC6
    Duration: 4 Years, 9 Month
  • ENSURE - New Energy Network StructURes for the Energiewende
    The objectives set for the Energiewende up to 2050 are achievable only if the number and performance of installed renewable energy facilities increase significantly. Far-reaching changes to the electricity supply system are needed if we are to continue to guarantee security of supply.
    Led by: Professor Dr.-Ing. Holger Hanselka
    Year: 2016
    Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
    Duration: 3 Years
  • MIGRATE - Massive InteGRATion of power Electronic devices
    By 2020, several areas of the HVAC pan-European transmission system will be operated with extremely high penetrations of Power Electronics(PE)- interfaced generators, thus becoming the only generating units for some periods of the day or of the year – due to renewable (wind, solar) electricity.
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens
    Year: 2016
    Funding: European Union/ Horizon 2020
    Duration: 4 Years
  • GAeroFeRo - Geometric Characterization for the Aerodynamic Evaluation of Manufactured Rotor Blades
    Typically rotor blades for wind turbines consist of two GFK respectively CFK based half-shells which are fabricated in sandwich construction. Due to the production process and the large dimension of the rotor blades, significant deviations between the blade geometry and the layout geometry can occur.
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Eduard Reithmeier
    Year: 2015
    Funding: Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi)
    Duration: 2 Years, 6 Month
  • EVUS - Real-Time Prediction of Pluvial Floods and Induced Water Contamination in Urban Areas
    Pluvial floods in urban areas as a consequence of local heavy rain events have caused significant damage in recent years. These floods are often induced by a failure of the urban sewage system and will gain importance due to an expected increase in extreme weather events. Within the EVUS project such a pluvial flood forecasting system will be developed for the city of Hannover.
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Insa Neuweiler
    Year: 2015
    Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Projektträger Jülich
    Duration: 3 Years
  • FuSy - Functional Safety of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines in Electric Vehicles
    In drive systems using permanent magnet synchronous machines, machine or converter errors might cause critical states in the drive system. For example in the field weakening range, overvoltages might occur at the motor terminals. Other effects might be high braking or oscillating torques, leading to critical driving situations.
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens
    Year: 2015
    Funding: Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie (BMWi)
    Duration: 3 Jahre
  • AMSES - Aggregate Models for Simulating Dynamic Processes in Electromechanical Energy Systems
    Aim of the research project "Aggregate Models for Simulating Dynamic Processes in Electromechanical Energy Systems" (AMSES) is to provide the scientific basis for understanding the effects that arise from the interaction of individual components of a complex system in the field of electrical power engineering. AMSES provides the knowledge and fundamentals for a new focus of research and for proposals for coordinated support programs, like for a collaborative research centre (CRC).
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Lutz Hofmann
    Year: 2015
    Funding: Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony (NMWK)
    Duration: 3 Years, 3 Month
  • NEDS - Sustainable Energy Supply Lower Saxony
    The research project "NEDS - Nachhaltige Energieversorgung Niedersachsen" (Sustainable Energy Supply Lower Saxony) has the goal to develop and evaluate sustainability scenarios for the electric power system of Lower Saxony in the year 2050. The scenarios are based on a  power  supply  system  with  significant  amount  of  renewable  energy  sources.  Further the sustainability of technically feasible transition paths to achieve the targets determined in the scenarios will be analysed.
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Lutz Hofmann
    Year: 2015
    Funding: Lower Saxon Ministry of science and culture (NMWK)/ Niedersächsisches Vorab: Volkswagen Foundation
    Duration: 3 Years
  • Speed2E - Innovative Ultra High-Speed Multistage Concept for Electrified Power Trains in Vehicles
    The overall goal of the BMWi-funded joint project Speed2E is the development, optimization and construction of a high-speed power train for use in electric vehicles. Increasing the speed of an electric drive bears the potential for increasing the electrical machine's power density and the vehicle's overall efficiency considerably. In today’s electric vehicle drive topologies, speeds of 15,000 rpm maximum are common practice. However, the Speed2E project aims at speeds up to 30,000 rpm.
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerhard Poll
    Year: 2014
    Funding: Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi)
    Duration: 3 Years
  • IRPWIND - Integrated Research Programme on Wind Energy
    IRPWIND is an integrated research programme that combines strategic research projects and support activities within the field of Wind Energy, with the aim of lever-aging the long term European research potential. IRPWIND gathers together 24 leading research institutions and will directly contribute to promoting joint collaborative projects and overall reinforcement of research excellence across Europe, as well as optimizing networking benefits from joint use of European facilities.
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil Raimund Rolfes
    Year: 2014
    Funding: EU-FP7
    Duration: 4 Years
  • SBJ - Monitoring Suction Bucket Jacket
    The research project "Monitoring SBJ" is a joint project of the project partners DONG Energy, Leibniz University of Hannover (LUH) and the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM). The Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) is involved as an associated partner.
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Achmus
    Year: 2014
    Funding: Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety
    Duration: 2 Years, 7 Month
  • GROWup OPC - Grouted Joints for Offshore Wind Energy Converters under Reversed Axial Loadings and Upscaled Thicknesses
    For a water depth larger than 30 m, which is typical for the German Ocean, support structures of Offshore Wind Energy Converters (OWECs) are preferably built as jackets. Independent of the type of support structure, the connection between foundation pile and support structure is mainly realized by a pile-sleeve connection, which is a steel-grout-steel connection, the so-called grouted joint.
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Schaumann
    Year: 2014
    Funding: Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU), European fond for regional development (EFRE), niedersachsen country
    Duration: 2 Years, 8 Month
  • HyConCast - Hybrid substructure of high strength concrete and ductile iron castings for offshore wind turbines
    The research project "HyConCast - Hybrid substructure of high strength concrete and ductile iron castings for offshore wind turbines" deals with the development of a novel, hybrid substructure for offshore wind turbines. The innovative concept is based on the combination of large-sized, thin-walled ductile iron casting knots with high-strength, light-weight precast concrete pipes customized for the environmental conditions and conditions of use.
    Led by: Univ. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Steffen Marx
    Year: 2014
    Funding: Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi)
    Duration: 4 Years
  • POLO - Smart formation of poly/mono-crystalline Si junctions using local doping techniques
    The further increase in the efficiency of industrial-type solar cells is limited by the recombination at the metal contacts. A promising approach to minimize this recombination is the use of junctions consisting of thin silicon dioxide capped by polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si) on top of crystalline silicon (c-Si).
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Robby Peibst
    Year: 2014
    Funding: Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi)
    Duration: 3 Years
  • SFB 871 - Regeneration of Complex Capital Goods
    The CRC 871 “Regeneration of Complex Capital Goods” (short: Product Regeneration) aims to develop scientific basics for the maintenance of complex capital goods in order to maintain or to “regenerated”  as many components as possible of the respective total system, so that functional characteristics of the capital goods will be restored or even be improved.
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Seume
    Year: 2014
    Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
    Duration: 4 Years
  • QuiCar-electric - Identification of an energetically optimised and profitable concept for e-car sharing operation
    The successful marketing of e-car sharing still faces a number of unsolved challenges. Thus, high investments for vehicles and for the necessary, appropriate software are to be made. At the same time, substantiated knowledge of customer expectations and market development is still lacking. Further problems arise from the dimensioning and operation of electric vehicles and the necessary infrastructure. This includes e.g. the optimization of vehicle components, the driver assistance systems for short-term use, the installation of appropriate charging infrastructure in the (semi-) public space, ensuring correct loading interface and demand-driven charging strategies as well as handling the range restrictions. Therefore, new (vehicle-) technical solutions are required, adapted to the determining factors of the use of car sharing.
    Led by: Prof. Dr. rer. Nat. Michael H. Breitner
    Year: 2013
    Funding: Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development (BMVBS)
    Duration: 3 Years
  • ProBeton - Development and experimental fatigue strength testing of concrete foundation structures for offshore wind turbines
    At present, foundations for offshore wind turbines (OWT) are mainly built as steel constructions. However, compared to steel constructions, concrete constructions have considerable advantages in terms of manufacturing and maintenance costs as well as fatigue strength. This is proved by the history of civil engineering structures (e.g. in bridge and container construction), initially made of steel, but nowadays primarily made of reinforced and pre-stressed concrete.
    Led by: Univ. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Steffen Marx
    Year: 2013
    Funding: Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi)
    Duration: 3 Years
  • GIGAWIND - Life time- Research on Support Structures in the Offshore Test Site alpha ventus
    The objective of the GIGAWIND life collaborative project is to expand the design concept for the OWEC support structures which was developed in GIGAWIND alpha ventus with important aspects which occur only over several years of operation.
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil Raimund Rolfes
    Year: 2013
    Funding: Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi)
    Duration: 4 Years 6 Month
  • Demand Response - The car as an active memory and virtual power plant
    Electric vehicles are intended to provide significant contribution to the stabilization of the electric grid by compensating a part of the weather-related strongly fluctuating power generation from renewable energy resources. For this purpose, the charging behavior of 40 electric vehicle users was examined
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Lutz Hofmann
    Year: 2013
    Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
    Duration: 3 Years
  • AEB - Fully Actuated Electromagnetic Bending Actuator for Endoscopic Applications
    Aim of the project is a fully actuated endoscope which is able to meet the opposing requirements during the advance (high flexibility) and during manipulation in the end position (high stiffness). Within the scope of the DFG- funded project, which is carried out in cooperation with the Institute of Mechatronic Sys- tems (imes), an electromagnetic bending actuator is being investigated, in order to solve the aforementioned problem.
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Ponick, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens
    Year: 2013
    Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
    Duration: 2 Years
  • VIPlets - Evidence of the aerodynamic potential of riblets produced by grinding and laser removal in a highly loaded axial compressor
    In order to increase the power density and the efficiency in gas turbines and in particular in aircraft engines, minimizing aerodynamic losses remains one of the main targets. An innovative approach to this is the microstructuring of the overflow surfaces of the blading with riblets known from bionics. These small longitudinal riblets can reduce flow losses in the viscous sublayer of the turbulent boundary layer.
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Seume
    Year: 2013
    Funding: Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU)
    Duration: 3 Years
  • ENTRIA - Disposal Options for Radioactive Residues: Interdisciplinary Analyses and Development of Evaluation Principles
    The research project ENTRIA is engaged in finding options for the disposal of high-level (heat generating) radioactive waste. Decades of discussions throughout the society and furthermore the feedback on recent political events such as the Law on Location Finding have made it very clear that this complex may not be solely solved from pure technical or natural science viewpoints.
    Led by: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Klaus-Jürgen Röhlig (TUC)
    Year: 2013
    Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
    Duration: 5 Years
  • Mobil4e - College offensive eMobility for training and continuing education - Learn, experience, live electric mobility!
    The federal government has the objective to bring one million electric vehicles onto German roads by 2020 and thereby to make transport more sustainable. The ongoing expansion of electromobility in Germany requires a promptly in-service training and further education for academics. Thus there is no market for electromobility yet, education in Germany as well as on international ground is facing a great challenge. Therefore a holistic approach involving all core competences is necessary. Until now this approach is missing on the field of in-service training and further education. To create and develop the holistic approach research efforts as well as interdisciplinary work is required.
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Ponick
    Year: 2013
    Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
    Duration: 3 Years
  • E-Antrieb.Net - Development and production environments for electric powertrains in KMU- focused network (2nd funding period)
    The research project e-Antrieb.NET was accepted through the call "Leittechnologien für Morgen" by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy (BMWi). The topic of this project is the coordination of different part projects concerning the electric powertrain. It is divided into two application stages.
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Ponick
    Year: 2013
    Funding: Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy (BMWi)
    Duration: 2 Years
  • BEREIT - Affordable Electrical Range by Modularity
    The long-term goal of resource and climate friendly mobility requires energy-efficient vehicles with new affordable drive concepts. Electric drives in general and plug-in hybrids in particular help to reduce the dependency on fossil fuels, but they are still more expensive than combustion motors.
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens
    Year: 2013
    Funding: Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), German Aerospace Center (DLR)
    Duration: 3 Years, 3 Month
  • CHIP - Cost-efficient high-throughput ion-implantation for photovoltaics
    Ion implantation offers the possibility to implement a variety of novel and higher efficient solar cell concepts in cost efficient production sequences. Here the instrinsic directed nature of the ion implantation technology enables sigle side doping or even selctive doping structures by using masking schemes. As ion implantation process induced damage on the solar cell surface reduces its quality significantly, thermal post process annealing is required tob e included in the sequence. By varying the combination of a multitude of process parameters from ion implantation as well as annealing the final doping profile can be influended in great details and therefore adapted to the specific requirements of the respective solar cell. Within the framework of the CHIP project the partners Bosch Solar Energy AG, institute for solar energy research Hameln (IFSH) and the institute of electronic materials and devices (MBE) at Leibniz University Hannover performed experiments in order to gain deeper understanding of the ion implantation technology and its applicability for high efficiency solar cell manufacturing.
    Led by: Prof. Dr. sc. nat. H. Jörg Osten
    Year: 2012
    Funding: Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation, Construction and Nuclear Safety (BMU)
    Duration: 1 Year
  • Smart Blades - Development and Design of Intelligent Rotor Blades
    In the wind energy industry, there is a trend for rotor blades to increase in size, which are subjected to very high dynamic loads due to the fluctuating and heterogeneous wind field. In the framework of this coordinated research project, three rotor blade concepts are investigated. In those concepts, the rotor blades adapt to the specific inflow conditions by means of a modification of the aerodynamic characteristics in order to reduce structural loads on the turbine.
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil Raimund Rolfes
    Year: 2012
    Funding: Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi)
    Duration: 3 Years, 3 Month
  • InnWind.EU - Innovative wind conversion systems (10-20MW) for offshore applications
    The proposed project is an ambitious successor for the UpWind project, where the vision of a 20MW wind turbine was put forth with specific technology advances that are required to make it happen. This project builds on the results from the UpWind project and will further utilize various national projects in different European countries to accelerate the development of innovations that help realize the 20MW wind turbine. DTU is the coordinator of this large project of 5 years duration and with a total of 27 European partners. 
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil Raimund Rolfes
    Year: 2012
    Funding: European Union (EU)
    Duration: 5 Years
  • MICRO - Origins and Impacts of Micro Cracks on the Long-Term Stability of PV Modules
    The project “Origins and Impacts of Micro Cracks on the Long-Term Stability of PV Modules“ analyzes micro cracks in PV modules reducing the performance, with the aim to predict power losses.
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Raimund Rolfes
    Year: 2012
    Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research. (BMBF)
    Duration: 3 Years
  • Smart Nord - Smart Grids Northern Germany
    The future electricity supply system will be characterised by large numbers of decentralised producers and storage units in distribution grids. In addition to coordinating power balance, these systems will have to contribute to critical system tasks, especially regarding frequency and voltage control. Currently, these tasks are handled by conventional power plants. The challenges of a continuous substitution of conventional power plants with distributed energy resources are subject to methodical research and development within the Smart Nord interdisciplinary research group. The main objective is to achieve a stable grid operation in future power systems.
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Lutz Hofmann
    Year: 2012
    Funding: Ministry of Science and Culture (MWK)
    Duration: 3 Years
  • BORA - Development of a computational model for the prediction of underwater noise due to pile driving for offshore wind turbine foundations
    The plans of expanding the production of offshore wind energy within Germany’s exclusive econom-ic zone (EEZ) as well as the resulting construction activities for offshore wind turbine foundations, normally installed by impact pile driving, lead toward increased underwater noise levels. The official limiting values that have been introduced by the German government for the protection of marine mammals often make the use of sound mitigation systems obligatory.
    Led by: Dr.-Ing. Stephan Lippert
    Year: 2011
    Funding: Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy (BMWi.IIC6)
    Duration: 4 Years
  • CRC 880 - Fundamentals of Active High-Lift of Future Commercial Aircraft
    To reduce, despite the increasing air traffic volume, the environmental impact of noise and exhaust gas emission in the vicinity of airports, low-noise and energy-efficient aircrafts with shorter climb and descent phase are the demands for the future. The focus of the DFG- funded Collaborative Research Centre 880 is, among others, on the development of novel high-lift systems. In cooperation with the Institute of Turbomachinery and Fluid Dynamics, the IAL is doing research work in the subproject “Compact Electrical Compressors“ with the aim to develop a directly driven compressor system.
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Ponick, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Seume
    Year: 2011
    Funding: German Research Foundation
    Duration: 7 Years (2 periods of foundation)
  • Adaptive Driving Concepts for IGBTs with Digital Gate Units
    The project „Adaptive Driving Concepts for IGBTs with Digital Gate Units” funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) deals with innovative methods to optimise the switching behaviour of voltage-controlled semiconductor devices. It is state-of-the-art to charge and discharge the input capacitance of these devices with a voltage source via gate resistors.
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens
    Year: 2010
    Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
    Duration: 3 Years
  • Implementation of SBZePoC for Single-phase Inverters
    In the last two years, a pulse modulation scheme for power electronic applications has been developed in cooperation with the Institute of Electromagnetic Theory at the Leibniz Universität Hannover (Head: Prof. Dr.-Ing. W. Mathis). The project is founded by the DFG.
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens
    Year: 2010
    Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
    Duration: 2 Years
  • AG Turbo 2020
    The German turbomachines industry has still one of the leading positions in the world. It will be enabled to hold this position also with the integration of carbon separation techniques. New business models seem not to be required.
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Seume
    Year: 2010
    Funding: Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi)
    Duration: 5 Years
  • PSA - Probabilistic Safety Assessment of Offshore Wind Turbines
    The objective targets of this project are to obtain adjusted environmental actions on Offshore Wind Turbines and to determine the safety elements for the design with respect to a harmonized safety level.
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Torsten Schlurmann
    Year: 2009
    Funding: Lower Saxonian Ministry for Science and Culture (MWK)
    Duration: 5 Years
  • "Metropolitan Aircraft" at Campus Forschungsflughafen
    Air transportation of the future requires scientific innovations to ensure environmental sustainability, efficiency, and safety. Scientists in the “Metropolitan Aircraft” research project are working on a vision to better meet the mobility requirements of industrialized society in the future. An essential component is providing people in metropolitan areas with efficient access to air transportation while simultaneously drastically reducing the negative impacts on citizens caused by noise and emissions.
    Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Seume
    Year: 2009
    Funding: Ministry of Science and Culture in Lower Saxony (NMWK)
    Duration: 5 Years