BASF : New magnetic materials for efficient cooling

Utrecht (NL) / Ludwigshafen (D), July 25, 2011 ? The Dutch foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM) and BASF start another joint research programme on magnetocaloric materials. This new class of materials may help to make today's cooling systems more efficient and more silent. This is the second joint research project of FOM and BASF and will have a duration of four years. "We aim at an even better understanding of the fundamental magnetocaloric principles, which will help us to develop new materials with improved properties and we will investigate the best routes for large-scale production," says programme leader Prof. Dr. Ekkes Brück (TU Delft). Magnetocaloric materials heat up in a magnetic field and cool down again when they are drawn out of the field. Therefore a heat pump based on magnetocaloric materials may be an ideal alternative for traditional cooling cycles. Cooling systems based on the magnetocaloric effect have the potential to significantly reducing energy consumption. "Theoretical considerations show an energy savings potential of up to fifty percent," explains Dr. Thomas Weber, managing director of BASF Future Business GmbH. "An additional benefit is that the system based on a magnetic cooling cycle can be relatively small. This makes them ideal for many applications ranging from the cooling of electronic components to refrigerators and air conditioners.? This technology does not make use of gaseous refrigerants. Therefore it is quieter and causes less vibrations than conventional compressor type refrigerators. FOM and BASF collaborate within a so called Industrial Partnership Programme (IPP). IPP?s are research programmes where FOM couples academic knowledge to industrial ambitions by renowned fundamental physical research in close cooperation with industry. Companies finance at least fifty percent. The research will be executed at TU Delft, Radboud University Nijmegen and at the research sites of BASF in De Meern (NL) and Ludwigshafen (D). BASF Future Business GmbH, a 100 percent subsidiary of BASF Aktiengesellschaft, was founded in April 2001. It aims to open up business areas with above-average growth rates that lie outside BASF?s current activities. The company focuses on chemistry-based new materials, technologies and system solutions. BASF Future Business GmbH commissions research from BASF?s R&D units and cooperates with start-up companies, industrial partners, universities and potential customers.

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