COMET Compentence Centers for Excellent Technologies - Success Stories COMET Centres (K2)

• COMET-Centres (K2) - 3rd Call:
  LCM, K2 Digital Mobility, IC-MPPE

• K2-Centres - 2nd Call: 
  ACIB, XTribology

• K2-Centres - 1st Call: 
  ACCM, K2Mobility, MPPE

COMET-Centres (K2) - 3rd Call:

LCM:

• A measuring device for fast and accurate data acquisition for applications of electromagnetic tomography

K2 Digital Mobility:

• Direct evaporative battery cooling increases safety of e-vehicles

IC-MPPE:

• MCL researcher receives highly endowed EU Research Award
• Fine blanking with hard metal tools
• Improved hard coating systems for efficient machining of aerospace materials
• Runner Up FloTHERM ΔTJ Award 2018 goes to Materials Centre Leoben
• New material models for the simulation of refractory linings

K2 Centres - 2nd Call:

ACIB - Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology:

• Key for citric acid production discovered
• Real-time monittoring for manufacturing processes of biopharmaceuticals
• Assessment of karyotype variation of Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cells
• Biocatalytic concept for the demethylation of methylphenylethers and their reversible formation
• Agriculture with microorganisms – Bodyguards for precious seeds
• Epigenome Characterization of Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) Cells
• Novel Metabolic Pathway in Biotech Yeast Discovered
• Continuous Purification of Next-Generation Antibody Therapeutics
• Yeast Exit - Shedding light on the mystery of protein secretion in Pichia pastoris
• Suitability of pre-packed chromatography columns for purification of biopharmaceuticals
• Gram-scale Enzymatic Synthesis of Phosphorylated Sugars
• Plastic bags that cannot breathe

XTribology - Excellence Center of Tribology:

• From lab to prototype – Development environment established for rail industry
• The silent bearing – Our little “everyday helper”
• The Steel Industry – an Extreme Workplace for Lubricants
• Tracking microscopic particles
• 24/7, 365 days a year – conveyor belts under extreme conditions
• Lab-2-Field development environment for service life prediction
• Innovative manufacturing of worm wheels for spindle jacks
• Close to the end of liquid lubricants?
• 10,000 km per day - With high-speed to used oil
• From deep sea to high mountains: Steel ropes under extreme conditions
• The combustion engine of the future
• How lubricants work - observation at the nanoscale
• Tribology of an eye
• Ceramic and rubber - innovative solution

K2 Centres - 1st Call:

ACCM - Center for Symbiotic Mechatronics:

• High Resolution 3D Radar Sensor
• Cost- and time savings with structured analysis methods
• Optimization of Hybrid Drives for Public Transport
• “Listening pays off” is true both in life and measurement technology
• Statistical Behaviour Analysis of Livestock Animals
• Let the robot do the work!
• Energy and Cost Efficient Valve Testing Device
• Detecting Wear for Spindles and Ball Screws Drives of an Injection Molding Machine
• New technique for iron loss modeling increases accuracy of computation by an order of magnitude
• Orientation Estimation in the Woods
• Modeling Devolatilization in Single- and Multi-Screw Extruders
• Cost-effective and high quality steel production

K2Mobility - K2 Digital Mobility - Context-Embedded Vehicle Technologies:

• VIRTUAL VEHICLE gains millions for EU projects in Styria
• Combined safety systems in vehicles: the integrated safety toolchain
• Efficient development of whole vehicles

MPPE - Integrated Computational Materials, Process and Product Engineering:

• Novel characterization techniques for coatings
• Cutting simulations for better cutting tools
• Development of intelligent production facilities
• Novel test for characterizing interface strengths in Printed Circuit Boards
• Parts for future aircrafts