OWI Oel-Waerme-Institut GmbH

Kaiserstrasse 100, D-52134 Herzogenrath, Germany, Germany

OWI Oel-Waerme-Institut gGmbH was founded in 1998 and is an affiliated institute of the RWTH-Aachen University. OWI is a non-profit research organization with its main task undertaking and promoting applied research and development in the field of energy and combustion technology with a special focus on liquid fuels. OWI has 30 employees including 10 PhD students. The research activities of OWI are financed on a project based approach and reach from applied industrial research projects to governmental financed fundamental research projects. OWI is a member of several associations in the fuel technology (DGMK and AGQM). OWI participated in many international and national research and development projects consortia in the fields of fuels, energy and combustion. The major goal of OWI in this project is to gain further knowledge concerning advanced bio fuels. As a research institute in the field of energy and combustion technology keeping ahead in research and development in this area is of utmost importance for OWI. By knowing the benefits and limitations of new concepts, fuels and energy systems OWI is able to stay a strategic partner in future industrial projects. 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 and is technical coordinator of the H2020 project Residue2Heat which aim is to use pyrolysis oil in a residential heating system.