Für die Verarbeitung von thermoplastischen Polymeren im Spritzgießprozess ist die Wahl der Werkzeugwandtemperatur entscheidend für die Formteileigenschaften und die optimale Zykluszeit. Das Spritzgießwerkzeug wird standardmäßig bei einer konstanten Werkzeugwandtemperatur betrieben, die bei speziellen Anwendungen, wie zum Beispiel die Abformung von nanostrukturierten Oberflächen, kaum eingesetzt werden kann. Dafür muss die Werkzeugwandtemperatur aktiv über die Dauer eines Spritzgießzyklus variiert werden. Für die variotherme Temperierung wird im Rahmen der vorliegenden Arbeit eine neue Technik auf Basis einer elektrischen Widerstandsheizung entwickelt und untersucht. Ziel der Arbeit ist die Entwicklung eines hochdynamischen Temperaturwechsels auf einer formgebenden Werkzeugwand, unter Vorgabe der Temperaturverteilung und ohne die Maschinennebenzeit zu verlängern. Dazu werden verschiedene elektrische Heizelemente konzipiert und untersucht. / For the processing of thermoplastic polymers in an injection molding process is the choice of the cavity temperature a critical property and a shape of the optimum cycle time. The standard injection molding process with a quasi constant mold wall temperature cannot be used in the case of special applications, such as the replication of nanostructured surfaces. For this the mold wall temperature has to be varied actively over the duration of an injection molding cycle. These variothermal temperature process is within the scope of the present study especially using a new developed technique based on an electrical resistance heating device. The aim of this work is to develop a highly dynamic temperature change on an injection mold wall by a defined temperature destribution and without an extended machine idle time. Various electric heating elements are designed and tested.

Für die Verarbeitung von thermoplastischen Polymeren im Spritzgießprozess ist die Wahl der Werkzeugwandtemperatur entscheidend für die Formteileigenschaften und die optimale Zykluszeit. Das Spritzgießwerkzeug wird standardmäßig bei einer konstanten Werkzeugwandtemperatur betrieben, die bei speziellen Anwendungen, wie zum Beispiel die Abformung von nanostrukturierten Oberflächen, kaum eingesetzt werden kann. Dafür muss die Werkzeugwandtemperatur aktiv über die Dauer eines Spritzgießzyklus variiert werden. Für die variotherme Temperierung wird im Rahmen der vorliegenden Arbeit eine neue Technik auf Basis einer elektrischen Widerstandsheizung entwickelt und untersucht. Ziel der Arbeit ist die Entwicklung eines hochdynamischen Temperaturwechsels auf einer formgebenden Werkzeugwand, unter Vorgabe der Temperaturverteilung und ohne die Maschinennebenzeit zu verlängern. Dazu werden verschiedene elektrische Heizelemente konzipiert und untersucht. / For the processing of thermoplastic polymers in an injection molding process is the choice of the cavity temperature a critical property and a shape of the optimum cycle time. The standard injection molding process with a quasi constant mold wall temperature cannot be used in the case of special applications, such as the replication of nanostructured surfaces. For this the mold wall temperature has to be varied actively over the duration of an injection molding cycle. These variothermal temperature process is within the scope of the present study especially using a new developed technique based on an electrical resistance heating device. The aim of this work is to develop a highly dynamic temperature change on an injection mold wall by a defined temperature destribution and without an extended machine idle time. Various electric heating elements are designed and tested.

Recently, there has been an increasing interest in the electronics world for those aspects related to semiconducting gas sensor (SGS) materials. In view of the increasingly strict legal limits for pollutant gas emissions, there is a great interest in developing high performance gas sensors for applications such as controlling air pollution and exhaust gases in automotive industry. In this way, semiconductor gas sensors offer good advantages with respect to other gas sensor devices, due to their simple implementation, low cost and good stability and sensitivity. The first part of the thesis is dedicated to the synthesis, film structural and sensitivity study of the Tin Oxide film deposited by RF sputtering, doped with noble metal Palladium (Pd). Effects on the Gas Sensitivity due to the deposition parameters like thickness of the film, Substrate temperature, Ar /O2 ratio of the sputtering environment, annealing temperature and duration and doping metal weight % into the Tin Oxide films are studied and the results are shown in detail. The sensitivity and selectivity of the gas sensing film is decided by the operating temperature i.e. the temperature of the gas sensing film while it is in the target gas ambience, Microheaters happen to be the very important component in the gas sensor especially with wide band gap semiconducting metal oxides films such as tin oxide, gallium oxide or indium oxides. Other than gas sensing microheater also finds applications in many areas like thermal dip pen nanolithography, polymerase chain reaction (PCR), fluid pumping with bubbles, in vitro fertilization etc. So in this report due importance was given for the design and fabrication of the microheater. Microheaters are the most power consuming element of the integrated Gas sensors. This is also an important reason for the extensive microheater work in this research. Six different heater patterns were simulated by considering low power and temperature uniformity as an important goals. Among them the best three patterns named Double spiral, “Fan” Shape and “S” shape were chosen for fabrication and both thermal and electrical characterization results of them were presented in detail in the Microheater section of the thesis. It is believed that the intelligent design and integration of the electronic circuitry (for drive, signal conditioning/compensation, and read-out) with the gas sensing element can mitigate some of the significant issues inherent in solid-state gas sensors, such as strong temperature and humidity dependence, signal drift, aging, poisoning, and weak selectivity. The sensitivity of the gas sensors which has been indicated as the dynamic change of resistance in wide range should be read out properly. Towards this aim a low cast high efficient readout circuit is designed and implemented. Temperature monitoring and controlling is a key phenomenon in the metal Oxide based gas sensors since the selectivity mainly depends on the operating temperature of the sensing film. So focus was also shown on the design and implementation of the temperature monitoring and control unit, which been presented in the last part of this thesis.

Für die Verarbeitung von thermoplastischen Polymeren im Spritzgießprozess ist die Wahl der Werkzeugwandtemperatur entscheidend für die Formteileigenschaften und die optimale Zykluszeit. Das Spritzgießwerkzeug wird standardmäßig bei einer konstanten Werkzeugwandtemperatur betrieben, die bei speziellen Anwendungen, wie zum Beispiel die Abformung von nanostrukturierten Oberflächen, kaum eingesetzt werden kann. Dafür muss die Werkzeugwandtemperatur aktiv über die Dauer eines Spritzgießzyklus variiert werden. Für die variotherme Temperierung wird im Rahmen der vorliegenden Arbeit eine neue Technik auf Basis einer elektrischen Widerstandsheizung entwickelt und untersucht. Ziel der Arbeit ist die Entwicklung eines hochdynamischen Temperaturwechsels auf einer formgebenden Werkzeugwand, unter Vorgabe der Temperaturverteilung und ohne die Maschinennebenzeit zu verlängern. Dazu werden verschiedene elektrische Heizelemente konzipiert und untersucht. / For the processing of thermoplastic polymers in an injection molding process is the choice of the cavity temperature a critical property and a shape of the optimum cycle time. The standard injection molding process with a quasi constant mold wall temperature cannot be used in the case of special applications, such as the replication of nanostructured surfaces. For this the mold wall temperature has to be varied actively over the duration of an injection molding cycle. These variothermal temperature process is within the scope of the present study especially using a new developed technique based on an electrical resistance heating device. The aim of this work is to develop a highly dynamic temperature change on an injection mold wall by a defined temperature destribution and without an extended machine idle time. Various electric heating elements are designed and tested.

Für die Verarbeitung von thermoplastischen Polymeren im Spritzgießprozess ist die Wahl der Werkzeugwandtemperatur entscheidend für die Formteileigenschaften und die optimale Zykluszeit. Das Spritzgießwerkzeug wird standardmäßig bei einer konstanten Werkzeugwandtemperatur betrieben, die bei speziellen Anwendungen, wie zum Beispiel die Abformung von nanostrukturierten Oberflächen, kaum eingesetzt werden kann. Dafür muss die Werkzeugwandtemperatur aktiv über die Dauer eines Spritzgießzyklus variiert werden. Für die variotherme Temperierung wird im Rahmen der vorliegenden Arbeit eine neue Technik auf Basis einer elektrischen Widerstandsheizung entwickelt und untersucht. Ziel der Arbeit ist die Entwicklung eines hochdynamischen Temperaturwechsels auf einer formgebenden Werkzeugwand, unter Vorgabe der Temperaturverteilung und ohne die Maschinennebenzeit zu verlängern. Dazu werden verschiedene elektrische Heizelemente konzipiert und untersucht. / For the processing of thermoplastic polymers in an injection molding process is the choice of the cavity temperature a critical property and a shape of the optimum cycle time. The standard injection molding process with a quasi constant mold wall temperature cannot be used in the case of special applications, such as the replication of nanostructured surfaces. For this the mold wall temperature has to be varied actively over the duration of an injection molding cycle. These variothermal temperature process is within the scope of the present study especially using a new developed technique based on an electrical resistance heating device. The aim of this work is to develop a highly dynamic temperature change on an injection mold wall by a defined temperature destribution and without an extended machine idle time. Various electric heating elements are designed and tested.

thermal manikin, thermophysiological model, thermal comfort, climatic chamber, clothing thermal resistence

This thesis presents work on a holistic approach for improving the overall design of solar cooling systems driven by solar thermal collectors. Newly developed methods for thermodynamic optimization of hydraulics and control were used to redesign an existing pilot plant. Measurements taken from the newly developed system show an 81% increase of the Solar Cooling Efficiency (SCEth) factor compared to the original pilot system. In addition to the improvements in system design, new efficiency factors for benchmarking solar cooling systems are presented. The Solar Supply Efficiency (SSEth) factor provides a means of quantifying the quality of solar thermal charging systems relative to the usable heat to drive the sorption process. The product of the SSEth with the already established COPth of the chiller, leads to the SCEth factor which, for the first time, provides a clear and concise benchmarking method for the overall design of solar cooling systems. Furthermore, the definition of a coefficient of performance, including irreversibilities from energy conversion (COPcon), enables a direct comparison of compression and sorption chiller technology. This new performance metric is applicable to all low-temperature heat-supply machines for direct comparison of different types or technologies. The achieved findings of this work led to an optimized generic design for solar cooling systems, which was successfully transferred to the market.