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Is Kraftblock the world’s most advanced thermal storage material?
“The world’s shift to renewable energy needs a solution to one central challenge: how to store excess solar and wind power for later use. Meanwhile, energy-intensive industries have a challenge of their own: what to do with all of the excess heat they generate. Kraftblock CEO Martin Schichtel, a chemist by training, believes his German-based company has the answer – a thermal-based storage system."1
“Kraftblock is a high density thermal energy storage. Its core technology is a uniquely designed material with a great combination of thermal conductivity and high specific capacity. Electrical energy can be transferred to thermal energy in a simple yet highly efficient process. Kraftblock storages will buffer energy in a commercially viable, eco-friendly and absolutely safe way. As soon as the power is needed again, the stored heat is transferred to electricity. Fast, cost-efficient, green."2
“Kraftblock is a high-temperature (up to 1,300°C) energy storage system designed to decarbonize the industry. Their solution can store approximately 3 times more energy than current industry solutions, and charges twice as fast. The process produces only 180 kg/MWh CO2 which is almost five times more efficient than alternatives."3
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This super-hot box could be the “missing piece” of the energy transition #
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This super-hot box could be the “missing piece” of the energy transition
Imagine driving around the city with a box on the back of your truck — the inside of which is hot enough to melt steel or power an industrial furnace.
Top Steelmaker Tests Thermal Energy Storage in Slag Byproduct to Cut CO2 #
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Top Steelmaker Tests Thermal Energy Storage in Slag Byproduct to Cut CO2
A component of Kraftblock is steel slag, a byproduct of steel manufacturing. Steel slag is being tested by other companies for its heat storage potential.
Kraftblock | Thermal Energy Storage System #
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Kraftblock | Thermal Energy Storage System
Kraftblock’s english-language home page
Kraftblock - Thermal Energy Storage as the key for waste-energy-recycling #
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Kraftblock - Thermal Energy Storage as the key for waste-energy-recycling
Kraftblock, based in Saarbrucken, aims to tackle the biggest challenge of heat energy: its huge quantities wasted during industrial processes.
Innovative Energy Storage #
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Innovative Energy Storage
German startup tackles renewable energy storage and industrial waste heat with single system
Thermal Energy Storage | Koolen Industries #
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Thermal Energy Storage | Koolen Industries
Kraftblock is a highly efficient heat storage system that can buffer thermal energy at very high temperatures, designed to decarbonize power generation and industrial processes.
Kraftblock - storage-based energy system #
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Kraftblock - storage-based energy system
Imagine capturing the massive excess energy created by manufacturing plants, solar panels, wind turbines and storing it in a storage based sustainable energy system. These energy examples make Kraftblock’s solution both innovative and sustainable.
Solid Edge Startup Spotlight: The energy storage system of the future – Martin Schichtel from Kraftblock #
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Solid Edge Startup Spotlight: The energy storage system of the future – Martin Schichtel from Kraftblock
Martin Schichtel, co-founder of Kraftblock, has a mission: develop a storage-based, sustainable energy system. With this, Kraftblock wants to establish the world’s leading energy storage solution and become an important part of the energy transition.
KRAFTBLOCK— Ecologically Friendly And Economically Viable Energy Storage Solution #
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KRAFTBLOCK— Ecologically Friendly And Economically Viable Energy Storage Solution
KRAFTBLOCK is a high-temperature heat storage that can be used universally: Heat to Power, Power to Heat, Power to Power, Heat to Heat. Compared to other storage options, KRAFTBLOCK is the most sustainable and cost-effective solution.
Koolen Industries secures stake in thermal energy storage firm Kraftblock #
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Koolen Industries secures stake in thermal energy storage firm Kraftblock
Dutch clean energy conglomerate Koolen Industries has invested €3 million in Kraftblock, a German firm that uses nanotechnology to develop new ways to store and transport energy as heat.