Mahle International Gmbh

Behr Gmbh Co. Kg

Mahle Behr Gmbh & Co. Kg

Behr France Rouffach Sas

Mahle Behr France Rouffach Sas

Peter Englert

Karl Lochmahr

Michael Kohl

Thomas Himmer

Ingo Trautwein

Snjezana Boger

Sabine Sedlmeir

Matthias Pfitzer

Bernd Grünenwald

Mathias Pfitzer

Oliver Mamber

Karl-Gerd Krumbach

Thomas Strauss

Michel Brun

Roger Gorges

Volker Kurz

Nic Sautter

Wolfgang Knödler

Jerome Stoeckel

Christoph Kästle

Richard Brümmer

Wolfgang Heeb

Fan Jin

Matthias Türpe

Marco D'Angelo

Thierry Clauss

Thomas Gebauer

Marc Bauer

Lukas Hinderer

Lars Kaminski

Dieter Gross

Jérôme Stoeckel

Matthias TÜRPE

Thomas Strauß

Daniel Braitsch

Daniela Stiehler

Matthias Dipl-Ing Pfitzer

Sabine Dipl-Ing Sedlmeir

Snjezana Dr Boger

Klaus Fischle

Bernd Grünewald

Snjezana Boger Boger

Tobias Isermeyer

A cooler passivation process for a coolant cooler of a cooler device mounted in a motor vehicle A cooler device with a coolant cooler is provided, the latter having at least one aluminum cooling channel with a cooler surface provided with flux. The cooler device is provided in a motor vehicle and is then put into operation with at least one fuel cell of the motor vehicle. In order to form a passivation layer on the coolant cooler, according to the invention a previously provided aqueous passivation solution is formed from passivation layer forming material and fuel cell wastewater is applied to the cooler surface, provided with the flux, of the at least one aluminum cooling channel, the passivation solution reacting with the cooler surface, provided with the flux, of the at least one aluminum cooling channel while thermal energy provided by the coolant cooler is supplied, forming a passivation layer.

Cooler passivation process for a coolant cooler of a cooler device mounted in a motor vehicle, cooler device, and use of a motor vehicle to passivate a coolant cooler of a cooler device

A method for filling a cooling circuit of a motor vehicle with a coolant may include filling the cooling circuit with ion-free water in a water filling operation, leaving the ion-free water in the cooling circuit for a water duration of action in a water operation of action, displacing the ion-free water out of the cooling circuit via filling the cooling circuit with a passivating agent in a passivating operation, rinsing the cooling circuit with ion-free water such that the ion-free water at least dilutes the passivating agent in the cooling circuit and a liquid including at least one of the ion-free water and the passivating agent remains in the cooling circuit in a rinsing operation, displacing the liquid out of the cooling circuit via filling the cooling circuit with the coolant in a coolant filling operation, and/or fluidically sealing the cooling circuit towards an outside in a sealing operation.

Method for filling a cooling circuit of a motor vehicle with a coolant

A heat exchanger for a cooling circuit which is flowed through by an aqueous temperature-control fluid may include at least two channel bodies, through which a flow path of the temperature-control fluid leads; at least one tank, which has a base and through which the flow path leads; and at least one ion exchange structure having ion-exchanging fibres for reducing ions in the temperature-control fluid. The at least two channel bodies may be fluidically connected with the at least one tank on a longitudinal end side via the base of the at least one tank.

Heat exchanger for a cooling circuit

A method for producing a heat exchanger having at least one cooling line with a lightweight metal base through which a water-based coolant can flow may include passivating a surface of the at least one cooling line, which is in contact with the coolant, before the at least one cooling line is filled with the coolant.

Method for producing a heat exchanger

A metal-air battery may include a housing, at least one hollow-cylindrical cathode arranged in the housing between an air chamber and an electrolyte chamber, and at least one metallic anode arranged in the electrolyte chamber. The battery may also include an air path leading through the housing from an air inlet to an air outlet of the housing, both of which may be fluidically connected to the air chamber, and an air supply device for generating an air flow following the air path and impinging on the cathode. The battery may further include an electrolyte path leading through the housing from an electrolyte inlet to an electrolyte outlet of the housing, both of which may be fluidically connected to the electrolyte chamber, and an electrolyte supply device for generating an electrolyte flow following the electrolyte path and impinging on the anode and the cathode.

Metal air battery

An anode for an aluminum-air battery may include an anode body, which may contain particles of an aluminum alloy in a sodium matrix. An electrolyte for an aluminum-air battery may consist of one of an aqueous acid and an aqueous lye containing at least one halogen and at least one surfactant.

Anode and electrolyte for a metal-air battery

The invention relates to a fluid channel for a heat exchanger, comprising a metal sheet, wherein the metal sheet has at least one core region of an aluminum base alloy and at least one structure arranged inside the fluid channel, wherein the structure lies against a surface of the metal sheet and can be soldered to the metal sheet in a flux-free manner by way of a first soldering location in a soldering operation, and wherein a soldering region of the metal sheet and a counterpart lie against one another and can be soldered to one another in the same soldering operation as a second soldering location while wetting with flux, wherein an open path between the two soldering locations exists before the soldering operation.

Solderable fluid channel for a heat exchanger of aluminum

A metal-air battery may include a housing, at least one cathode disposed in the housing between an air space and an electrolyte space, and at least one metal anode disposed in the electrolyte space. The battery may also include an air path leading through the housing from an air inlet to an air outlet of the housing, both of which may be fluidically connected to the air space, and an air supply device for generating an air flow which may follow the air path and act upon the cathode. The battery may further include an electrolyte path leading through the housing from an electrolyte inlet to an electrolyte outlet of the housing, both of which may be fluidically connected to the electrolyte space, and an electrolyte supply device for producing an electrolyte flow which may follow the electrolyte path and act upon the anode and the cathode.

Metal-air battery

The invention relates to a method for modifying piece surfaces consisting in bringing pieces into contact with at least one type of a modifying agent in such a way that the modification of the surface is carried out.

Method for producing pieces having a modified surface

A solar collector is provided that has a base material and a nanostructured layer integrated into the base material so as to form a light-absorbing surface. The nanostructured layer has nanoparticles of an inorganic material.

Solar collector and method for producing a light-absorbing surface

An electrically operated heating device, in particular for a heating or air conditioning system of a vehicle, is provided, comprising a heating register with a layered heating element, for converting electrical energy into heat, and two electrically insulating and heat-conducting insulating layers, which respectively make contact, at least in certain regions, with one side of the layered heating element. The insulating layers and the layered heating element are braced with one another, an abrasion-counteracting sliding layer being arranged between at least one of the insulating layers and the layered heating element. Alternatively or in addition, at least one of the insulating layers and the layered heating element have, at least in the region of their mutual contact surfaces, a material pairing with which the abrasion of the contact surfaces goes below a predetermined limit value.

Heating device

A method for treating exhaust gas condensates of an internal combustion engine, in which the exhaust gas condensates containing nitrogen oxides are delivered to an exhaust gas recirculation system and are cooled therein. The nitrogen oxides of the cooled exhaust gas condensates are converted to ammonia through electrolysis.

Method and device for treating exhaust gas condensates of an internal combustion engine

The aim of the invention is to provide a fluxing agent for soldering components, which creates one or more specific surface characteristics during the soldering process itself, thus obviating the need for the surface treatment process that is conventionally carried out after the soldering process. To achieve this, nanoparticles are added to a base substance.

Fluxing agent for soldering metal components

The invention relates to a method for producing a metal part. Said method comprises the steps of supplying a strand of metal material and applying a coating from a fluxing agent composition to a surface of the strand of material by means of an application device (), said fluxing agent composition being applied to only a defined portion of the surface of the strand of material by means of the application device ().

Method for producing a metal part

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