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Energy transition at FIELAX – Installation of heat pumps

After FIELAX has already been using its own solar power since 2019, another step has now been taken on the way to climate neutrality. Most of the offices and the workshop are now heated with air-to-air heat pumps. On very hot days, the devices can of course also be used for air cooling (then there should be enough solar power available). An additional extension of the photovoltaic system is planned for coming fall.We would like to thank the companies Peters Kälte - Klima - Lüftung (www.peters-kkl.de) and H&H Wührmann (www.wuehrmann.de) for the good planning and timely execution of the installation.

20 years of FIELAX

This summer FIELAX celebrates its 20th anniversary. We would like to thank all our customers, suppliers and partners for the "decades of good cooperation". After its beginnings "at the North and South Pole", the company has continuously expanded both its areas of activity and its geographical scope. We owe this above all to the consistently good performance of the entire workforce, many of whom are travelling all over the world - also today. In the meantime, there are some offspring, most of whom do not even know that there was a time "before FIELAX".

We look forward to further growth and future projects.

Demonstrator for deep-sea pump system “Seafeather” – developed by FIELAX and AWI – successful first deployment in the Kermadec Trench

FIELAX and the Alfred Wegener Institute work together in the joint project "SeaFeather 10k" funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (FKZ 03SX480C). The goal is to develop a new, innovative deep-sea pumping system up to water depths of 10000m. The new system should enable various control options via measured values of additional sensors (e.g. pressure, conductivity, temperature), have modern battery technology and be intuitive to operate.

After test runs in a pressure tank and in the North Sea, the system was used for the first time under real conditions during the cruise SO289 of research vessel ‚FS Sonne‘. In the Kermadec Trench, approx. 500 liters could be successfully pumped through at almost 6000m within 1 hour. Pumping performance, filter pattern, battery performance, manageability and operation of the system as well as the data sets obtained met all set requirements. In the remaining term of the project, work is to be done on the development towards a prototype.