 |
|
| ||||||
Success Formula | |
APC-Coupling in cooling circuit for inverter. |
At full speed: the successful E5 engineered by students from the University of Stuttgart, Germany. The Formula Student is an international students’ engineering contest, which has also been carried out in Europe since 1998. |
wolftechnik is proud to be a sponsor of the University of Stuttgart’s GreenTeam. The Green Team is a student association at the University of Stuttgart and a contestant in the Formula Student. In this competition, the students are tasked with building a small Formula I race car within a year. Parts are bought, manufactured or provided by sponsors. In the 2013/2014 season, the students built the E5 model. The most important race was run in Hockenheim, where the car made a very impressive second place in the electric category. After races in Austria, Spain and China, this year’s electric vehicle ended up on the sixth place. wolftechnik had a minor part in this success by contributing APC quick-action couplings from CPC, which are used for the various cooling circuits. Due to these self-locking couplers, the cooler fluid can be replaced fast and tidily. As no air bubbles must develop during the filling process, the team was able to open the circuits during maintenance, to connect the maintenance pump and to top off the water in the pipes. The pump could then be removed and the circuits sealed again without water being able to escape from the system. Wolftechnik and the University of Stuttgart’s Green Team are looking forward to continuing their partnership in 2015 and to driving the E6 to the top of the world ranking list. | |
Applications for foodstuffs and beverages | |
| LUPUS®-II-filter elements for soft drinks The taste, look and shelf life of beverages strongly depends on the quality of the raw material water. This needs to be hygienically impeccable so as not to cause impairments in terms of smell and taste or cloudiness in the finished product. Impure water might also have an adverse impact on the production and filling processes due to the risks of corrosion or sedimentation. Depending on the particular specifics of water use in breweries, for fruit juices and soft drinks, or in the mineral water industry, spring and well waters need to be treated appropriately according to legally required quality standards. A prime issue is the removal of iron and manganese and the separation of solid substances. A major manufacturer of soft drinks wished to have its existing filtering facility for the separation of solid substances optimised in regard to the lifetime of the filter elements and the cost per cubic metre of filtered well water. We were able to perfectly solve this task by deploying our LUPUS® II WFMLP type filter elements. The folded multi-layer WFMLP structure with its – in flow direction – increasingly finer filter layers ensures long durability and a high dirt absorption capacity. Moreover, the large filtering area of the LUPUS® II filter elements allows for compact construction with an outstanding throughput capacity. |
| Center posts with adapter and DOE deep bed filters for sugar syrup. For safe sealing of filter elements in cartridge filters, manufacturers use a variety of adapters and end caps. Especially in the case of alternating thermal stress loads and the resulting linear expansion and shrinking, adapter cartridges are highly recommendable. However, adapters and end-caps will have to be disposed of with every filter replacement, as the former are permanently connected to the filter element. High filter consumption may result in a rapid build-up of operative costs for the steady replacement of elements in the production process. A manufacturer of energy drinks found its filtration process to cause precisely this economically unsatisfactory situation. After thorough evaluation of the production process and the entire system, wolftechnik was able to resolve the problem. As the process did not produce alternating thermal stress loads, the existing cartridges were refitted with specially manufactured center posts with adapters and removable end-caps. When the filter is replaced, the center posts with their adapters and end-caps remain, as reusable components, within the cartridge, while only the DOE filter elements as such are replaced. This solution enabled significant cost savings as well as a massive reduction of the total volume of disposable matter. A ‘clear case’ for the energy drinks maker – in both economic and ecological terms! |
| Project “Rheines Wasser” A swimming professor improving clarity |
Initial results of a River Rhine sampling campaign of the special kind were introduced by Prof. Dr. Andreas Fath at the ‘Hansgrohe Wassersymposium’ on 13 November 2014 in Schiltach, Germany. In July and August, samples of Rhine water had been taken along the entire course of the river. Preliminary analyses demonstrated that, while critical values are not being exceeded, the River Rhine carries an extensive cocktail of chemicals. Artificial sweeteners, anti-corrosives, residual pharmaceuticals – anything that is being used at high dosages along the river, was found in the samples. The analysis of the water samples collected is only in its first steps. Prof. Fath intends to investigate how such substances could be disintegrated before being released into rivers. A couple of German media tips: A 13 November report on SWR Landesschau aktuell on the results: A comprehensive view on the project was presented by the WDR broadcast Planet Wissen on 26 November: Something to listen to: Deutschlandfunk: A swimming water tester – the River Rhine is cleaner than previously thought: | |
Prix International Pour Les Enfants goes to Tina Wolf The Otto Eckart Foundation’s award was given to Ms Tina Wolf in recognition of her achievements for children in Guatemala | |
Stiftung Otto Eckart The Otto Eckart Foundation The foundation, founded in 1966 by Munich entrepreneur and Honorary Consul of Guatemala Otto Eckart, sponsors children and adolescents and promotes cultural issues as well as the protection of the environment. In Guatemala, it focuses on building schools, catastrophe relief projects and the reforestation of the rain forest. |
Ms Tina Wolf presenting the cheque from wolftechnik |
Tina Wolf In 2002, mother, housewife and former Managing Director of wolftechnik Filtersysteme GmbH of Weil der Stadt, Germany, Tina Wolf and her husband Joachim Rössle adopted little Maria from Guatemala, and, some years later, little Paula as well. As Maria’s legal fostering parent, Tina Wolf spent time in Guatemala, learnt Spanish and got to know the country and its people. Ever since, she has been engaged in numerous educational, healthcare and social aid projects, for example by way of sponsorships, promotion of business start-ups and co-sponsored projects with the Otto Eckart Foundation and GuatePro e.V.; most recently the implementation of a healthcare station in the village of San Jacinto near Chimaltenango. | |
Don‘t hesitate to ask: +49 (0)7033-70 14-0 from Mo. – Fr. 7.30 am – 5.00 pm Wolftechnik Filtersysteme GmbH & Co.KG | Malmsheimer Strasse 67 | 71263 Weil der Stadt Managing Director: Peter Krause | District Court: Stuttgart, HRA 726 585 |
 |
Disclaimer Our site contains links to third-party Web sites. We have no influence whatsoever on the information on these Web sites and accept no guaranty for its correctness. The content of such third-party sites is the responsibility of the respective owners/providers. At the time third-party Web sites were linked to ours, we found NO GROUNDS WHATSOEVER of any likely contravention of the law. We shall promptly delete a link upon becoming aware that it violates the law. |
