Austria

FotoFlex

Energy: Chemical

FotoFlex Boris Cergic, Valentin Rezsnyak HTL Dornbirn, Vorarlberg, Austria In 1991 Prof. Dr. Michael Grätzel published a solar cell, based on organic dyes (named after it’s Inventor “Grätzel…

Storage of Electrical Energy by Converting It into Chemical Energy

Energy: Chemical

Assignment of Tasks: Austria gets most of its electrical energy from renewable energy sources. These sources have the problem that their energy output is not constant. This is the reason, wh…

Modular Numerical Controlled Prototyper

Engineering Mechanics

Many machines that are used for building prototypes of electronical devices have a similar setup but although every machine must be bought, it is rarely necessary to use all of them at the s…

Extraction of Symbolic Patterns from the Web

Web scraping has become increasingly important in recent years. It is part of the branch of data analysis, search engines and data collection programs. The need for web scraping programs is…

Innovative CKD Treatment

Cement Kiln Dust (CKD) is an off-specification byproduct of cement clinker production, about 80 million yearly tons accrue. Due to its high alkali share, CKD is unsuitable for use in cement…

Multi Robot Indoor System

The focus of our project is to provide a framework for multi robot systems to exchange information about their environment that they can learn from each other. This happens via wireless conn…

No K.O. - Studies on Rapid Determination Methods of GHB and GBL in Different Party Drinks

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design

K.O- drops, everyone knows these dangerous drugs from the media. I have heard more and more of instances where these drugs were used to make people helpless. Starting point of my idea was th…

Oil Filter Recycling Plant

The main task was to find a new disposal method for used oil filters. A company in Costa Rica had big problems with contamination of the ground and ground water with oil because of the throw…

PhosporCycle: Thermochemical Phosphorus Recovery and Low-Cost Rapid Determination

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design

The aim of the project is the recovery of phosphorus by a thermal process, as the primary sources of phosphorus will be depleted in the next few years. Our educt is mainly sewage sludge ash,…

Anastomosis Robot Tool (ART)

Energy: Physical Second Award

Anastomosis Robot Tool (ART) is a surgical instrument. It may be used in surgery for bowel resection (i.e. cutting out a segment of large bowel that is affected by cancer) to reconnect the t…

Variable Neighborhood Search for the Partition Graph Coloring Problem

Embedded Systems

The internet as global communication platform evolved to a pillar of modern society. Increasing demand to exchange data keeps putting a fundamental question to internet service providers: Ho…

Width-variable Francis Turbine

Engineering Mechanics

The goal of this project was to develop a new technology that would allow us to operate a Francis turbine at part load without having a great loss of efficiency. The main concept consists of…