OWI Oel-Waerme-Institut gGmbH An-Institut der RWTH Aachen

Aachen, Germany

The focus of several research projects at OWI lies on the physical-chemical properties of new, renewable fuels as well as on their effects on technical systems and components. Areas of activity regarding industrial furnaces are the development of burners, the control and optimization of components and processes as well as the investigation of materials that are used in the furnace construction. Further research topics are the after-treatment of exhaust gases of motorised applications or the use of innovative evaporation and combustion concepts in a pressurised environment. OWI has a long time experience in accomplishing and administrating projects funded by German public funding organizations like BMWI, DBU, AiF. Recently, OWI has developed a combustor for micro-CHP system running on liquid fuel and performed the system integration of a modular fuel cell based CHP system. Currently OWI is participating in the H2020 project Redifuel . The overall objective of REDIFUEL is to enable sustainable and cost-competitive production of renewable EN590 diesel biofuel (drop-in capable) from various biomass feedstocks. Furthermore OWI is technical coordinator of the H2020 project Residue2Heat which aim is to use pyrolysis oil in a residential heating system.