An Innovative Renewable Energy System
Secure & Flexible
This project has received funding from the EuropeanUnion's Horizon 2020 research and innovation
programme under grant agreement No. 857768.
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the HiFlex technology
Reduce CO2 emissions
Reduce costs of renewable power generation
Provide flexibility
to the energy system
Our Vision
In the HiFlex project, a pre-commercial power plant based on Concentrating Solar Power will be developed, built and tested at a pasta plant in Italy.
The EU co-funded project will demonstrate, that it is possible to run the plant 24/7 and continuously generate renewable energy.
Barilla, one of the leading pasta producers worldwide, can use the thermal energy for its pasta production in order to partly reduce its consumption of fossil fuels.
Reduce CO2 emissions
Our Vision
In the HiFlex project, a pre-commercial power plant based on Concentrating Solar Power will be developed, built and tested at a pasta plant in Italy.
The EU co-funded project will demonstrate, that it is possible to run the plant 24/7 and continuously generate renewable energy.
Barilla, one of the leading pasta producers worldwide, can use the thermal energy for its pasta production in order to partly reduce its consumption of fossil fuels.
Reduce costs of renewable power generation
Provide flexibility
to the energy system
How to reduce a pasta’s carbon footprint?
Take wheat and some water, add energy from renewable sources and there you go!
Hardfacts about HiFlex
1000 °C
Absorber medium temperature
2.5 MW th
Peak thermal receiver power
20 MWhth
Thermal storage capacity
6000 m²
Heliostat reflector area
7000 t/yr
Pasta dried by Hiflex plant
for building a low-carbon &
climate resilient future.
Technology
the supply of flexible energy.
Concentrating Solar Power
Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) systems use mirrors to focus sunlight on a small spot, where a absorber medium gets heated. The absorbed heat can be directly used to generate electricity, process heat or stored for later use.
Heliostats
Heliostats are movable mirrors, which reflect sunlight to the top of a tower. Computers control the heliostats to ensure their proper and correct alignment according to the movement of the sun during the day. In HiFlex, a heliostat field will be developed and built with special focus on cost reduction and improved manufacturing
Solid particle systems and Particle receiver
Solid particle systems are considered a promising option for future CSP. Small ceramic particles are used as absorber and storage medium. Temperatures up to 1000°C are possible due to the direct absorption concept and advantageous particle properties. Unlike state-of-the-art molten salt, the particle system does not experience the danger of fluid freezing and thus does not need any trace heating. The low cost of the particles and the significantly reduced need for high-temperature metallic alloys lead to lower receiver and storage costs.
In the HiFlex project, solarradiation is concentrated onto a so-called Centrifugal Particle Receiver (CentRecÒ) with 2.5 MW peak thermal power which is mounted on top of the tower. Small ceramic particles as the absorber medium passes through the receiver and get thereby heated up to 1000°C. The basic concept of the receiver is a rotating cylinder with an inclined rotation axis. Particles are fed into the receiver and forced against the inner cylinder wall by centrifugal forces, where they form a thin, but optically dense particle film. While slowly moving along the wall towards the receiver outlet, the film is gradually heated by incoming solar radiation.
Electric particle heater & Backup heater
In times, when there is not enough direct radiation for CSP available or the increasing share of photovoltaic (PV) and wind energy leads to excess power in the grid, an electric particle heater (100 kWel) is employed to heat up the particles with PV or wind electricity. This avoids curtailment of renewable power systems and enables further increase of PV and wind capacity. In this way, the HiFlex system can act in a controlled manner both as power supply as well as power sink, and thus contribute to grid balancing with positive and negative power.
On cloudy and windless days however,a simple burner for renewable fuel (800 kWth), like biogas, cellulosic ethanol or renewable hydrogen, is foreseen to heat up the particles, ensuring the full production capacity for grid stability. This feature avoids the need to keep other conventional power blocks in stand-by that would only be used for a limited number of hours during the year. Due to the limited usage of this feature the total amount of renewable fuel is expected to be quite small (< 5%).
High density storage
The heated particles can be directly stored in an insulated tank for later use, allowing the generation of dispatchable power. Due to the large temperature span from 300°C to 700°C between hot and cold state of the particles the volumetric storage density is about 2.5 times higher than current solutions. Together with low cost particles this results in reduced specific storage costs (about 50% of current solutions).
After passing the steam generator, the cooled particles are stored in a second tank. Both tanks are sized large enough to smooth out the variable energy inputs.
Steam generator & turbine
In order to generate steam for power production the heated particles are led through the steam generator.
The high driving temperature difference in the steam generator results in a low heat transfer area and smaller units with reduced thermal inertia. Therefore, a faster ramping of the power cycle is allowed which improves the response to grid demand fluctuations.
Depending on the demand of the energy user, high temperature, high pressure steam is produced from the hot particles and subsequently converted to electricity with a steam turbine. If low temperature heat is needed, the steam is not expanded completely, but extracted from the steam turbine at a sufficient temperature. This combined heat and power scheme allows the use of waste heat coming from the turbine. In the actual HiFlex project however, the steam turbine is left out as it is state-of-the art technology.
Particle transport
The particle transport from the cold storage tank to the receiver inlet is done batchwise in insulated containers with an elevator system, incorporating a small heat losing surface. For the short distance from receiver outlet to hot storage an insulated pipe with a gravity driven transport of the hot particles is foreseen.
Grid
The electricity produced using renewable sources is provided to the power grid. The HiFlex system is able to deliver secure electricity on demand. Due to the included storage system it is moreover capable of providing flexibility to the grid. It can either function as a power source or a power sink.
Pasta Production
The HiFlex system is intended for continuous operation over a period of 18 months. The partner Barilla is especially interested in a future combined heat and power (CHP) application. Preliminary cost estimations for the Barilla production site near Foggia, South Italy, indicate attractive cost for both, electricity and heat production, and CO2 reductions for the pasta production. Barilla is therefore interested to have the demonstration system installed on their premises, allowing the integration of process heat from the pre-commercial HiFlex system into the existing pasta production and learning about the operation and economics of the system.
Life Cycle Assessment
The environmental performance of the HiFlex system will be assessed by means of an environmental life cycle assessment (LCA). It will focus on impact categories like greenhouse gas emissions (carbon footprint), non-renewable primary energy use (energy footprint), water use (water footprint) and land use, as well as on impacts on ecosystems and human health.
commercial CSP system using
solid particle technology.
Our partners
The pan-European consortium of HiFlex brings together internationally recognized experts from eachtargeted development area, with the aim to leverage their complementary skills to fully cover all development aspects of the high temperature particle CSP concept. Together they will demonstrate the technical and economic feasibility of the HiFlex system and its potential to considerably contribute to carbon emission reduction.
KT – Kinetics Technology
KT – Kinetics Technology is a specialized EPC contractor and part of the MaireTecnimont
Group, a head company of an industrial group leader in natural resources processing
industry (plant engineering in oil & gas downstream, with advanced technological
and executive skills), listed on the Milan Stock Exchange. In its current position as EPC
Contractor, KT is widely recognized as a company with a very strong technological
background and a great focus on process design capabilities. The company roots in its
traditional licensing business lines, sulphur recovery and hydrogen production, with
multiple relevant units all over the world licensed by KT. This double dimension – as main
contractor and licensor – enables KT to properly and continuously translate the lesson
learned coming from its construction sites into upgrades of the plant design and boosts a
real and effective design-to-cost approach since the very beginning of the engineering
phase in compliance with the most stringent environmental regulations.
KT and Nextchem will coordinate and supervise the project as well as provide engineering
for the integration of the same. KT as coordinator of the project will manage the
consortium dynamics and the relation with the European Commission.
NextChem
NextChem is MaireTecnimont’s subsidiary operating in the field of green chemistry and
technologies for the energy transition. MaireTecnimont Group is a head company of an
industrial group leader in natural resources processing industry (plant engineering in
oil&gas downstream, with advanced technological and executive skills), listed on Milan
Stock Exchange. The MaireTecnimont Group kicked-off its Green Acceleration project
through the launch of NextChem, its new company dedicated to supporting the energy
transition. NextChem is managing a portfolio of several technological initiatives along a
roadmap towards energy transition which is composed of three areas of activity:
Greening the Brown, Circular Economy and Green Green.
Thanks to MaireTecnimont’s technological DNA and its leadership in the transformation
of natural resources, NextChem is able to act timely to contribute to accelerate the
industrialization and commercialization of innovations for sustainably transforming
good ideas into industrial plants and to be the best technological and industrial partner
in the energy transition under way.
Nextchem, due to its broad experience in pilot plant design as well as in engineering
activities in CSP field, oversees the basic engineering and of the detailed engineering.
Nextchem is also in charge of erection supervision, commissioning and start-up.
DLR
The German Aerospace Center (DeutschesZentrumfürLuft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) is the
national aeronautics and space research centre of Germany undertaking extensive
research and development work in aeronautics, space, energy, transport, security and
digitalization. DLR employs about 8500 people at 27 locations in Germany.
The DLR Institute of Solar Research (DLR-SF) with over 170 scientist and engineers is
the largest research entity in Germany investigating and developing CSP technologies to
provide heat, electricity and fuel. With about 50 members of staff, the department of
Thermal Process Technology of the DLR Institute of Engineering Thermodynamics
(DLR-TT) is concerned with energy storage, thermal management and heat exchange
topics.
The main research focus of the Institute of Materials Research (DLR-WF) is the
development of new material solutions and their processing techniques for applications
in i.e. energy technology.
DLR-SF designs the centrifugal particle receiver, the electric heater and the back-up
heater system together with HelioHeat. It is responsible for the modelling and the
techno-economic assessment of the receiver and the overall system and implements the
heliostat field control system.
DLR-TT works on designing the steam generator that is supported by particle-CFD
simulations. It is responsible for validating the corresponding steam generator model.
The contribution of DLR-WF is focused on material issues such as particle
characterization and fundamental work for optimization of the particle composition.
Barilla
Barilla is an Italian family-owned food company. Established in Parma in 1877 out of a
shop that made bread and pasta, Barilla is now an international Group present in more
than 100 countries. A world leader in the markets of pasta and ready–to–use sauces in
continental Europe, bakery products in Italy and crispbread in Scandinavia, the Barilla
Group is recognized worldwide as a symbol of Italian know–how.
Barilla has a strong environmental company policy to reduce its CO2 emissions.
According to Barilla’s strategy „Good for You, Good for the Planet“ the long term goal is
to change its electricity and heat demand to a sustainable production.
Barilla is the end user of the energy produced by the CSP pre-commercial power plant
and will host it next to its pasta manufacturing plant in Foggia, South Italy.
Sugimat
Sugimat S.L. is a Spain-based company specialized in design and manufacturing of heat
exchangers for different use in the industry and energy sector. With more than 35 years
of experience, Sugimat has supplied hundreds of turnkey plants worldwide fueled with
biomass or fossil fuels. Currently, it is made up of a multidisciplinary team of more than
30 engineers and specialized workers.
With support from John Cockerill, Sugimat is in charge for the manufacturing of the
steam generator and the condenser.
TEKFEN
Tekfen Engineering is a part of Tekfen Group of Companies, was founded in 1984 to
handle the engineering side of the EPC triangle for turnkey projects to provide effective
engineering services for technologically demanding projects that require specialized
know-how. Tekfen Engineering has also been contracted out of the Group in particular
because of its experience in industrial plants and infrastructure projects. Tekfen aims to
meet each client’s schedule, budget, performance and quality goals by applying its
wealth of design expertise and practical experience as well as its management skills.
Tekfen Engineering has a team of 300+ multi-discipline engineers, active mainly in oil &
gas, power plant, petrochemical, infrastructure and utility industries. Tekfen offers
engineering solutions in process, equipment design, plant layout, piping, electrical, I&C,
civil, structural, architectural, project management, risk & safety disciplines.
Tekfen Engineering Company is mainly responsible for the optimization, detailed
engineering and manufacturing of heliostats and the heliostat field.
HelioHeat GmbH
HelioHeat GmbH was founded in July 2017 as a spin-off company from the DLR Institute
of Solar Research. Its main technology is the Centrifugal Particle Receiver, a highly
innovative component for novel CSP plants with the potential for reduced energy costs.
HelioHeat also offers plant developers support in feasibility studies, project
development, optimization of the complete plant and basic engineering.
HelioHeat manufactures and delivers the Centrifugal Particle Receiver, the electric and
the backup particle heater.
John Cockerill
Driven since 1817 by the entrepreneurial spirit and passion for innovation of its founder, the John Cockerill Group develops large-scale technological solutions to meet the needs of its time: preserving natural resources, contributing to greener mobility, producing sustainably, fighting against insecurity and facilitating access to renewable energy. Its contribution to businesses, governments and communities consists of services and associated equipment for the sectors of energy, defense, industry, the environment, transport and infrastructures. With over 6000 employees, John Cockerill achieved a turnover of 1.3 billion euro in 23 countries on five continents in 2018.
John Cockerill is responsible of the Particle Steam Generator basic and detail engineering. John Cockerill will also support Sugimat for the Steam Generator manufacturing.
Quantis
Quantis is a leading life cycle assessment (LCA) consultancy specialized in supporting
companies to measure, understand and manage the environmental impacts of their
products, services and operations. Quantis employs 40 people, amongst which several
are internationally renowned experts in the LCA field.
Quantis offers cutting-edge services in environmental footprinting, eco-design,
sustainable supply chains as well as environmental communication. Fueled by its close
ties with the scientific community and its strategic research collaborations, Quantis has
a strong track record in applying its expertise to support clients
in transforming LCA results into decisions and action plans.
Quantis assesses the environmental and integrated sustainability performance of HiFlex
concept (including individual components and technology as a whole), compared to
alternative energy technologies, by means of a life cycle assessment (LCA) and natural
and social capital valuation.
Dürmeier GmbH
Perfect industrial equipment – this is what Dürmeier GmbH stands for. State-of-the art
engineering, perfection in production and assembly. More than 40 years of experience
and reliability under the „Made in Germany“ mark. Dürmeier provides equipment for
different applications, such as chemical industry, mining, foundries, steelmaking and
recycling. Its specialization are individual solutions, applying a “special” approach in
situations as if they were “standard”. Concept development and design, production and
assembly – all this processes take place hand in hand in one company. This allows for
perfectly matching to existing conditions and interfaces, including risk analysis,
documentation preparation and obtaining of CE or EAC conformity declarations.
Dürmeier works both with greenfield turnkey projects or with replacement of individual
components at existing plants.
Dürmeier is responsible for design and delivery of the transport system for particles to
the top of the tower feeding the Centrifugal Particle Receiver.
KT – Kinetics Technology
KT – Kinetics Technology is a specialized EPC contractor and part of the MaireTecnimont
Group, a head company of an industrial group leader in natural resources processing
industry (plant engineering in oil & gas downstream, with advanced technological
and executive skills), listed on the Milan Stock Exchange. In its current position as EPC
Contractor, KT is widely recognized as a company with a very strong technological
background and a great focus on process design capabilities. The company roots in its
traditional licensing business lines, sulphur recovery and hydrogen production, with
multiple relevant units all over the world licensed by KT. This double dimension – as main
contractor and licensor – enables KT to properly and continuously translate the lesson
learned coming from its construction sites into upgrades of the plant design and boosts a
real and effective design-to-cost approach since the very beginning of the engineering
phase in compliance with the most stringent environmental regulations.
KT and Nextchem will coordinate and supervise the project as well as provide engineering
for the integration of the same. KT as coordinator of the project will manage the
consortium dynamics and the relation with the European Commission.
NextChem
NextChem is MaireTecnimont’s subsidiary operating in the field of green chemistry and
technologies for the energy transition. MaireTecnimont Group is a head company of an
industrial group leader in natural resources processing industry (plant engineering in
oil&gas downstream, with advanced technological and executive skills), listed on Milan
Stock Exchange. The MaireTecnimont Group kicked-off its Green Acceleration project
through the launch of NextChem, its new company dedicated to supporting the energy
transition. NextChem is managing a portfolio of several technological initiatives along a
roadmap towards energy transition which is composed of three areas of activity:
Greening the Brown, Circular Economy and Green Green.
Thanks to MaireTecnimont’s technological DNA and its leadership in the transformation
of natural resources, NextChem is able to act timely to contribute to accelerate the
industrialization and commercialization of innovations for sustainably transforming
good ideas into industrial plants and to be the best technological and industrial partner
in the energy transition under way.
Nextchem, due to its broad experience in pilot plant design as well as in engineering
activities in CSP field, oversees the basic engineering and of the detailed engineering.
Nextchem is also in charge of erection supervision, commissioning and start-up.
DLR
The German Aerospace Center (DeutschesZentrumfürLuft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) is the
national aeronautics and space research centre of Germany undertaking extensive
research and development work in aeronautics, space, energy, transport, security and
digitalization. DLR employs about 8500 people at 27 locations in Germany.
The DLR Institute of Solar Research (DLR-SF) with over 170 scientist and engineers is
the largest research entity in Germany investigating and developing CSP technologies to
provide heat, electricity and fuel. With about 50 members of staff, the department of
Thermal Process Technology of the DLR Institute of Engineering Thermodynamics
(DLR-TT) is concerned with energy storage, thermal management and heat exchange
topics.
The main research focus of the Institute of Materials Research (DLR-WF) is the
development of new material solutions and their processing techniques for applications
in i.e. energy technology.
DLR-SF designs the centrifugal particle receiver, the electric heater and the back-up
heater system together with HelioHeat. It is responsible for the modelling and the
techno-economic assessment of the receiver and the overall system and implements the
heliostat field control system.
DLR-TT works on designing the steam generator that is supported by particle-CFD
simulations. It is responsible for validating the corresponding steam generator model.
The contribution of DLR-WF is focused on material issues such as particle
characterization and fundamental work for optimization of the particle composition.
Barilla
Barilla is an Italian family-owned food company. Established in Parma in 1877 out of a
shop that made bread and pasta, Barilla is now an international Group present in more
than 100 countries. A world leader in the markets of pasta and ready–to–use sauces in
continental Europe, bakery products in Italy and crispbread in Scandinavia, the Barilla
Group is recognized worldwide as a symbol of Italian know–how.
Barilla has a strong environmental company policy to reduce its CO2 emissions.
According to Barilla’s strategy „Good for You, Good for the Planet“ the long term goal is
to change its electricity and heat demand to a sustainable production.
Barilla is the end user of the energy produced by the CSP pre-commercial power plant
and will host it next to its pasta manufacturing plant in Foggia, South Italy.
Sugimat
Sugimat S.L. is a Spain-based company specialized in design and manufacturing of heat
exchangers for different use in the industry and energy sector. With more than 35 years
of experience, Sugimat has supplied hundreds of turnkey plants worldwide fueled with
biomass or fossil fuels. Currently, it is made up of a multidisciplinary team of more than
30 engineers and specialized workers.
With support from John Cockerill, Sugimat is in charge for the manufacturing of the
steam generator and the condenser.
TEKFEN
Tekfen Engineering is a part of Tekfen Group of Companies, was founded in 1984 to
handle the engineering side of the EPC triangle for turnkey projects to provide effective
engineering services for technologically demanding projects that require specialized
know-how. Tekfen Engineering has also been contracted out of the Group in particular
because of its experience in industrial plants and infrastructure projects. Tekfen aims to
meet each client’s schedule, budget, performance and quality goals by applying its
wealth of design expertise and practical experience as well as its management skills.
Tekfen Engineering has a team of 300+ multi-discipline engineers, active mainly in oil &
gas, power plant, petrochemical, infrastructure and utility industries. Tekfen offers
engineering solutions in process, equipment design, plant layout, piping, electrical, I&C,
civil, structural, architectural, project management, risk & safety disciplines.
Tekfen Engineering Company is mainly responsible for the optimization, detailed
engineering and manufacturing of heliostats and the heliostat field.
HelioHeat GmbH
HelioHeat GmbH was founded in July 2017 as a spin-off company from the DLR Institute
of Solar Research. Its main technology is the Centrifugal Particle Receiver, a highly
innovative component for novel CSP plants with the potential for reduced energy costs.
HelioHeat also offers plant developers support in feasibility studies, project
development, optimization of the complete plant and basic engineering.
HelioHeat manufactures and delivers the Centrifugal Particle Receiver, the electric and
the backup particle heater.
John Cockerill
Driven since 1817 by the entrepreneurial spirit and passion for innovation of its founder, the John Cockerill Group develops large-scale technological solutions to meet the needs of its time: preserving natural resources, contributing to greener mobility, producing sustainably, fighting against insecurity and facilitating access to renewable energy. Its contribution to businesses, governments and communities consists of services and associated equipment for the sectors of energy, defense, industry, the environment, transport and infrastructures. With over 6000 employees, John Cockerill achieved a turnover of 1.3 billion euro in 23 countries on five continents in 2018.
John Cockerill is responsible of the Particle Steam Generator basic and detail engineering. John Cockerill will also support Sugimat for the Steam Generator manufacturing.
Quantis
Quantis is a leading life cycle assessment (LCA) consultancy specialized in supporting
companies to measure, understand and manage the environmental impacts of their
products, services and operations. Quantis employs 40 people, amongst which several
are internationally renowned experts in the LCA field.
Quantis offers cutting-edge services in environmental footprinting, eco-design,
sustainable supply chains as well as environmental communication. Fueled by its close
ties with the scientific community and its strategic research collaborations, Quantis has
a strong track record in applying its expertise to support clients
in transforming LCA results into decisions and action plans.
Quantis assesses the environmental and integrated sustainability performance of HiFlex
concept (including individual components and technology as a whole), compared to
alternative energy technologies, by means of a life cycle assessment (LCA) and natural
and social capital valuation.
Dürmeier GmbH
Perfect industrial equipment – this is what Dürmeier GmbH stands for. State-of-the art
engineering, perfection in production and assembly. More than 40 years of experience
and reliability under the „Made in Germany“ mark. Dürmeier provides equipment for
different applications, such as chemical industry, mining, foundries, steelmaking and
recycling. Its specialization are individual solutions, applying a “special” approach in
situations as if they were “standard”. Concept development and design, production and
assembly – all this processes take place hand in hand in one company. This allows for
perfectly matching to existing conditions and interfaces, including risk analysis,
documentation preparation and obtaining of CE or EAC conformity declarations.
Dürmeier works both with greenfield turnkey projects or with replacement of individual
components at existing plants.
Dürmeier is responsible for design and delivery of the transport system for particles to
the top of the tower feeding the Centrifugal Particle Receiver.
True partners for one goal.
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Group photo of HiFlex consortium at Barilla‘s pasta production facility, Oct. 2019
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Barilla pasta plant
The HiFlex plant will be installed at Barilla’s pasta plant near Foggia, Italy.
Credit: Barilla
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This project has received funding from the EuropeanUnion's Horizon 2020 research and innovation
programme under grant agreement No. 857768.
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Protection of certain personally-identifying information
We disclose potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying only to those of our employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on our behalf or to provide services available at the HiFlex website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using the HiFlex website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. We will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, we discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of HiFlex, third parties or the public at large.
If you are a registered user of http://www.hiflex-project.eu and have supplied your email address, we may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with HiFlex. We primarily use emails to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (via our feedback mechanisms https://hiflex-project.eu/ contact/), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. We take all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information. You have the right of access, correction and erasure of the personal information concerning you, as well as the option to oppose the processing of this data, which you can exercise at any time by emailing the following address: info@helioheat.de.
Aggregated statistics
We may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. We may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, we do not disclose your personally-identifying information.
Cookies
To enrich and perfect your online experience, we uses „Cookies“, similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. We use cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their usage of http://www.hiflex-project.eu, and their website access preferences. Visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using our website, with the drawback that certain features of this website may not function properly without the aid of cookies. By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to our use of cookies.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, we may change our Privacy Policy from time to time, and in our sole discretion. We encourage visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.