Soliterm
| Soliterm GmbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| founding | 1999 |
| Seat | Aachen |
| management | Ahmet Lokurlu |
| Number of employees | 20 (2008) |
| Branch | Renewable energy |
| Website | www.solitermgroup.com |
The solos Term Group GmbH is a Aachener companies in the field of renewable energy .
history
The company found its origin on the beach in 1993, after company founder Ahmet Lokurlu suffered a severe sunburn . The basic idea arose to use the enormous and inexhaustible energy of the sun and convert it into cold . Initially, the company was only operated on a part-time basis. In the meantime, Ahmet Lokurlu, in collaboration with the Solar Research Department at the DLR Institute for Technical Thermodynamics in Cologne, has developed special parabolic trough collectors that use concentrated solar energy to heat water to such an extent that it can be used to operate a two-stage absorption chiller and generate cold. In 2002 a branch was opened in Turkey, which took over the production of the systems designed in Aachen. The first variably used Soliterm system was installed in a holiday hotel on the Turkish Aegean coast in winter 2003/2004 and put into operation in April 2004. It works very effectively and proves the successful launch of the invention. Further projects have been started since then. In 2011 Soliterm then opened the world's first robot-controlled production facility for parabolic trough collectors in Turkey . The robot-controlled production line is based on the elements of artificial intelligence . It is digitized, fully automatic and consists of six individual stations. The production facility has an annual capacity of approx. 250 MW . This corresponds to around 40,000 collectors.
General
The Soliterm Group is a growing company for innovative energy and environmental technologies. SOLITERM parabolic trough collectors have been installed at more than twenty locations in ten countries. Every SOLITERM system has at least two operating modes: One replaces the electricity consumption of compression chillers during the high tariff periods in summer with solar-powered, double-acting absorption chillers or replaces liquid gas to heat the existing boiler with solar steam. The other operating mode is characterized by the use of parabolic trough collectors in winter for hot water preparation or for heating buildings. The pioneering and future-oriented developments in the field of high-temperature solar thermal energy, which have already received several international awards, distinguish the Soliterm Group. They develop, produce and install energy systems for solar cooling, heat and process steam supply as well as combined heat, power and cooling. Solar-assisted air conditioning systems and the production of process steam are used in hotels, hospitals, residential complexes, supermarkets, warehouses and cold stores and production buildings that have a high demand for energy . Soliterm is currently the world's second largest manufacturer and supplier of parabolic trough collectors with an installed area of around 34,000 m².
Awards
- In 2004 Soliterm received the Energy Globe Award and the RIO Innovation Prize.
- In 2005 Soliterm was awarded the “European Solar Prize” from Eurosolar in the “Industrial and Commercial Companies” category.
- In 2007, Ahmet Lokurlu was named a "global environmental hero" by Time magazine .
- In 2008 the Kyocera environmental award was given to the Soliterm.
- In 2015 Soliterm was awarded the Innovation and Excellence Prize in the Energy category by the Institution of Chemical Engineers .
- In 2017 Soliterm won the industry award in the Energy & Environment category .
Web links
- solitermgroup.com - Official website
Individual evidence
- ↑ About Dr. Ahmet Lokurlu. Soliterm, accessed January 28, 2020 .
- ↑ A portrait of the founder. In: Gründerzeitung, issue 1/2005. Aachen start-up region, accessed on February 8, 2016 .
- ↑ Europ. Solar prices 2005. (No longer available online.) In: eurosolar.de. Eurosolar, archived from the original on February 8, 2016 ; accessed on February 8, 2016 .
- ↑ KYOCERA environmental prize awarded. In: kyocera.de. Kyocera, May 8, 2008; accessed February 8, 2016 .