This area of research focuses on innovative processes for the economically-sound, safe, and sustainable generation of power. This includes centralized power generation from fossil fuels in large power plants, such as steam power plants with high live-steam parameters; gasification power plants; combined cycle power plants; and decentralized power plants for local energy supply as small as a few kilowatts for isolated applications.

The creation of renewable energy sources through photovoltaics, biogas production, wind energy, and waste heat – in combination with efficient energy storage technologies – also provide important interdisciplinary research topics. The effective use of waste materials, in addition to the separation and retention of carbon dioxide captured from the exhaust of fossil-fuels, as well as the integration of waste management into the entire system is another area of inquiry.

Work is carried out on all scales from laboratory experiments to test rigs. Processes are optimized with the use of modern simulation tools. All investigations are strongly focused on practical applications, while contributing to – and benefiting from – the broad base of fundamental knowledge available at CER.UDE.