Abstract: A heat transfer medium is used in solar thermal power plants. The heat transfer medium can reversibly absorb and release water. The heat transfer medium releases water during heating and releases heat during re-absorption of the water.

Abstract: A varistor, or voltage-limiting composition has a polymer matrix and a particulate filler containing a partially conductive material applied to an electrically non-conductive carrier material. The carrier material has a lower density than the partially conductive material, so that the settling rate of the filler in the polymer matrix is reduced. The voltage-limiting composition can therefore also be used as a lacquer or for prepreg materials. A body which acts as a varistor may be produced using a composition of this kind by a method that includes annealing. The varistor may be used for surge arresters, in particular in medium-voltage systems, low-voltage systems, cable connections and cable fasteners.

Abstract: An insulating tape material, a method for production and usage thereof, for producing electrical insulation paper such as mica paper, which is contained in thermally conductive insulating tapes that are used for high-voltage insulation, for example. The insulating tape material has fiber reinforcement by means of a fabric, wherein the meshes of the fabric are filled by a particle composite which is preferably thermally conductive.

Abstract: Fewer insulation layers can be used by virtue of using hydrophobic electrically conductive materials around a main insulation around a conductive bar. There are several more layers of conductive and/or non-conductive material.

Abstract: A method is provided for producing an electrical insulation paper having a particle composite. The method involves mixing a dispersion of particles in platelet form, a carrier fluid and a functionalizing agent which is distributed in the carrier fluid and has a proportion by mass in the dispersion corresponding to a predetermined mass ratio based on the proportion by mass of the particles. The dispersion is sedimented, such that the particles in platelet form are arranged in essentially plane-parallel layers in the sediment. The carrier fluid is removed from the sediment. Energy is introduced into the sediment to overcome the activation energy of that chemical reaction of the functionalizing agent with the particles which forms the particle composite from the sediment with coupling of the particles via the functionalizing agent. The mass ratio is predetermined such that the particle composite has a porous structure. The insulation paper is thereby produced.

Abstract: An insulating system having improved partial discharge resistance includes an insulating tape around a conductor. The tape is a mica tape joined to a carrier. The tape is impregnated with a synthetic resin, and is interspersed with a nanoparticulate filler, present bimodally, in the form of two fractions of the filler differing in particle size and fraction size. An adhesion promoter may be in the resin.

Abstract: An insulating material and its method of use of insulating material for rotating machines such as motors and generators. The insulating material includes a resin embedded with a filler that is not based only on a monomodal nanoparticle size particle distribution. Radiation erodes the material and is conductive to the formation of in situ protective layers on the body to be insulated.

Abstract: By using an electrically conductive PTFE fabric, high-voltage insulation systems are simplified and can be made thinner, also improving the thermal conductivity. The insulation material is in two layers, each with a hydrophobic and a hydrophobic region, and the hydrophobic regions of the layers are opposed.

Abstract: High-voltage insulation systems are simplified and can have a thinner design by the use of an electrically conductive PTFE fabric, wherein the thermal conductivity is also improved.

Abstract: Disclosed are insulating electric conductors against partial discharge and a method for producing an insulation system having improved partial discharge resistance and such an insulation system. There is an erosion-inhibiting effect of adhesion promoters, such as organic silicon compounds, added to resin when admixing nano particulate fillers. Good results may be attributable to a type of particle wetting of the nano particles as a result of particle wetting with organosilanes. The admixture of adhesion promoters with the resin before the addition of the nano particulate filler provides considerable advantages.

Abstract: Casting compound suitable for casting an electronic module, in particular a large-volume coil such as a gradient coil, which is composed of a support material forming a matrix, one or more fillers made of inorganic microparticles, and at least one filler made of polymer nanoparticles.

Abstract: A varistor, or voltage-limiting composition has a polymer matrix and a particulate filler containing a partially conductive material applied to an electrically non-conductive carrier material. The carrier material has a lower density than the partially conductive material, so that the settling rate of the filler in the polymer matrix is reduced. The voltage-limiting composition can therefore also be used as a lacquer or for prepreg materials. A body which acts as a varistor may be produced using a composition of this kind by a method that includes annealing. The varistor may be used for surge arresters, in particular in medium-voltage systems, low-voltage systems, cable connections and cable fasteners.

Abstract: A method for producing tape for an electrical insulation system, including the following steps: providing a porous insulation paper; providing a resin that has nano-scale particles suspended therein; saturating the insulation paper with the resin such that the resin and particles become dispersed in the insulation paper; and finishing the tape.

Abstract: A rotor end-bell (2) for an electric generator, the rotor end-bell (2) being made at least in part of fiber-reinforced plastic. A rotor (1) and an electric generator (T) have at least one such rotor end-bell (2). The end-bell can be advantageously used in high-speed turbo generators.

Abstract: A method for producing an electrical insulation system of a conductor of a winding head of an electric machine is provided. The method includes applying a porous main insulation paper to the conductor of the electrical machine; applying a porous overhang corona shielding paper to the main insulation paper, as a result of which an insulation blank of the insulation system is formed; impregnating the insulation blank with a base resin, wherein the overhang corona shielding paper and the main insulation paper have a porosity such that the insulation blank is impregnated by the base resin to form a homogeneous base resin matrix; and completing the insulation system by curing the base resin.

Abstract: A method is provided for producing an electrical insulation paper having a particle composite. The method involves mixing a dispersion of particles in platelet form, a carrier fluid and a functionalizing agent which is distributed in the carrier fluid and has a proportion by mass in the dispersion corresponding to a predetermined mass ratio based on the proportion by mass of the particles. The dispersion is sedimented, such that the particles in platelet form are arranged in essentially plane-parallel layers in the sediment. The carrier fluid is removed from the sediment. Energy is introduced into the sediment to overcome the activation energy of that chemical reaction of the functionalizing agent with the particles which forms the particle composite from the sediment with coupling of the particles via the functionalizing agent. The mass ratio is predetermined such that the particle composite has a porous structure. The insulation paper is thereby produced.

Abstract: To operate solar thermal technology economically, a cheap heat transfer fluid is used. To either completely spare or significantly reduce the energy-intensive auxiliary heating at night, a water tank is simply installed in the plant without a threat to the environment. With the water tank, the salt HTF is thinned by adding water when the solar heating is not in operation.

Abstract: A heat transfer medium for solar thermal systems, a solar salt, contains nitrate salts. By admixing Ba and/or Sr are added to Li—Na—K—NO3 to improve the properties of the solar salt.

Abstract: A thermoelectric generator utilizes the waste heat of exhaust gases having a temperature of less than 250° C., such as those resulting from the operation of power plants. In this case, partially conductive or semiconductive particles are used which are arranged in layers between hot and cold air channels and produce a usable current flow.

Abstract: A method for encapsulating an optoelectronic component by depositing a diffusion barrier for protection against environmental influences by means of an atmospheric pressure plasma on at least one subarea of the surface of the optoelectronic component.