Bionet

Bionic heat and cooling networks.

In the scientific field of bionics, natural principles are identified and abstracted to solve technical problems. A number of nature’s developments such as evolutionarily optimized shapes, drag reducing surfaces and additives have so far not been widely used in thermal distribution networks.

The BioNet project at the Hermann-Rietschel-Institut aimed at adopting promising solutions to this specific application and evaluated potential energy savings in domestic thermal distribution networks. Numerical simulations (CFD) were used to adopt and evaluate the approaches to heating and cooling nets as well as to explain the physical principles of the bionic developments.

Funding

Associates

TU Berlin, Fachgebiet für Bionik und Evolutionstechnik, Prof. Rechenberg

Project termSeptember 2013 to May 2017
Funding code 03ET1632A
Project management Karsten Tawackolian