Welcome to IMVT
The Institute for Micro Process Engineering (IMVT) was founded in July 2001 with the objective of enhancing the use of novel microstructures in modern process engineering. Foundation of IMVT had been preceded by innovative studies relating to the fabrication of metal microstructured devices and their use in process engineering at the former Central Experimentation Department and before at the Institute for Nuclear Process Technology of Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe. IMVT and its precursor department had been headed by Dr. Klaus Schubert since the late eighties.
Today, IMVT is one of the leading academic research institutions in the field of micro process engineering worldwide. An international team of 64 employees specialized in various disciplines focuses on the construction and fabrication of microstructured devices, on fundamental studies of transport processes and chemical reactions in microstructures, and on the use of prototypes in selected thermal and chemical processes. Apart from research projects financed from basic funds under the Helmholtz programmes, projects funded by third parties are being executed in cooperation with industry and academic research institutions in Germany and abroad.
Deutschlandfunk highlights research on Power-to-X technologies
DLF Science journalist Ralf Krauter and his team visited IMVT last year to talk about Power-to-X, Energy Lab 2.0 and Kopernikus P2X. What came out is an excellent broadcast on the developoment status and perspectivces of Power-to-X technologies for the energy transition. The contribution is also available on the internet:
Power-to-X for the Energy Transition
Youtube video presents Kopernikus project P2X
Science influencer Cedric Engels has visited the IMVT. On his Youtube channel "Doktor Whatson" he explains how fuel can be produced from power and air using the container based plant of the partners Climeworks, Sunfire, INERATEC and IMVT in the Kopernikus project "Power-to-X":
e-Fuels – Kraftstoffe aus dem CO2 der Luft
