Isabellenhutte Heusler unveils half-Heusler
pilot production
EU research project INTEGRAL
In collaboration with the Swedish truck powertrain
cooling manufacturing TitanX, the Fraunhofer
Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems
IKTS and the British engineering service provider
Ricardo, Isabellenhütte is currently developing
a thermoelectric generator (TEG) that can be
coupled to truck exhaust systems within the
scope of the EU’s INTEGRAL (INitiative To bring
2nd gEneration of thermo-electric Generators into
industrial ReALity) project.
The European Union-funded (EU) project*
INTEGRAL focuses on the recovery of heat
energy using thermoelectric material and forms
the framework for Isabellenhütte’s “material
production and process development” project.
Isabellenhütte is responsible for establishing and
developing one of three pilot projects geared
towards producing thermoelectric half-Heusler
compounds in large volumes. The overarching
goal of the project is to increase the level of
technological maturity of this form of energy
recovery from 4 (experimental setup in the
laboratory) to 7 (prototype in use) by 2019.
WN JUNE 2017
TEG recovers energy through half-Heusler
compound The TEG consists of two heat
exchangers and an active thermoelectric half-
Heusler compound placed between the heat
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