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    We proudly announce a landmark collaboration between Eindhoven Engine, Rijkswaterstaat, and a coalition of visionary partners. This agreement, officially kicked off during the Festival of Disruption 2025, marks a decisive step toward achieving a climate-neutral Brainport by 2040 through circular water hubs.

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    iHeat@Home

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    Start year 2020
    End year 2024

    About the project

    The iHeat@Home project contributes to a breakthrough innovation in thermal energy storage: a heat battery which is better, cheaper, smaller and greener than any competitor. This will accelerate the energy transition, promote the development of renewable energy sources, reduce grid investments and create new business. This is all happening here in the Brainport region.

    iHeat@Home focuses on solutions for real-time data on the heat battery’s state-of-charge and its optimal data management, with three coherent solutions:

    1. The basis for a sensor which is robust and cheap
    2. Communication protocols and data managemen
    3. Integration in a validated, user-ready heat battery. The aim is to bring this technology to the market by 2023.

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    Olaf Adan I Project leader

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    Key outcomes

    iHeat@home gained valuable connections with Brainport stakeholders, including VDL. Periodical sessions broadened the team’s perspective and provided useful feedback from engineers and researchers, speeding up concept development. The project also benefited from access to consortium meeting spaces, student workrooms, and shared lab facilities—offering equipment and test setups not available elsewhere.
    Additionally, the project initiated new collaboration between TNO, TU/e, and Fontys on the topic of TCM, strengthening regional knowledge exchange.

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    Olaf Adan – Project leader

    The Eindhoven Engine project iHeat@Home works on a breakthrough innovation in thermal energy storage: a heat battery which is better, cheaper, smaller and greener than any competitor.

    Evelien Klein Meuleman – TU/e Master student

    Evelien created an experimental set up and used flow simulations to research the improvement of heat batteries.