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TOWARDS A MORE
ENERGY-EFFICIENT AND
SUSTAINABLE PATH

The RF2.0 partners envision a future where accelerators are designed, operated,
and supplied with 100% renewable energy, ensuring secure and stable performance
at any time. This approach aims to make operations nearly independent of the
public power grid while significantly reducing environmental impact.





Partners: 6 Accelerator Research Facilities,
4 High-tech SMEs

4 demonstrator
projects

Project duration:
1/2024-12/2026

Budget:
5,6 Mio €

EC Call:
INFRA-2023-TECH-01-01




LATEST NEWS

 * SCIENCE CITY DAY OF DESY IN HAMBURG
   
   1 June 2024
   
   On the 1st June 2024, in the context of the Science City Day, organized in
   Hamburg Bahrenfeld, our partner DESY opened its doors to the… read more

 * RF2.0 WAS REPRESENTED AT THE RICH EUROPE SYMPOSIUM IN MADRID
   
   7 May 2024
   
   On the 7th May 2024, RICH Europe’s first Symposium of Research
   Infrastructures took place in Madrid. RICH Europe is an EU funded
   Coordination and Support Action with… read more

 * SCIENCE CITY DAY OF DESY IN HAMBURG
   
   1 June 2024
   
   On the 1st June 2024, in the context of the Science City Day, organized in
   Hamburg Bahrenfeld, our partner DESY opened its doors to the… read more

 * RF2.0 WAS REPRESENTED AT THE RICH EUROPE SYMPOSIUM IN MADRID
   
   7 May 2024
   
   On the 7th May 2024, RICH Europe’s first Symposium of Research
   Infrastructures took place in Madrid. RICH Europe is an EU funded
   Coordination and Support Action with… read more





RESEARCH FACILITY 2.0

RF2.0 is a Horizon Europe funded project that aims to design, develop and
validate novel solutions for components and systems, that allow to transform
particle accelerators in more sustainable and energy efficient research
infrastructures.

The achieved innovations will also benefit medical centres, data centres,
industrial plants, and High-tech companies that have very similar
characteristics and face the same challenges.



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 * 1 June 2024
   
   SCIENCE CITY DAY OF DESY IN HAMBURG

 * On the 1st June 2024, in the context of the Science City Day, organized in
   Hamburg Bahrenfeld, our partner DESY opened its doors to the… read more

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 * 7 May 2024
   
   RF2.0 WAS REPRESENTED AT THE RICH EUROPE SYMPOSIUM IN MADRID

 * On the 7th May 2024, RICH Europe’s first Symposium of Research
   Infrastructures took place in Madrid. RICH Europe is an EU funded
   Coordination and Support Action with… read more

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PARTNERS

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RF2.0
APPROACH

Al-assisted load management

New highly-efficient and reliable components

Power consumption flexibility approaches for providing grid services

Sustainable low carbon technologies integration


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RF2.0
APPROACH

Al-assisted load management

New highly-efficient and reliable components

Power consumption flexibility approaches for providing grid services

Sustainable low carbon technologies integration


learn more




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TOWARDS A MORE
ENERGY-EFFICIENT AND SUSTAINABLE PATH




CHALLENGES

Large-scale research facilities as particle accelerators are usually
energy-intensive systems, which during their operations can have a yearly
average energy consumption of about hundreds of GWh. This is comparable to the
consumption of large metropolitan cities in Europe.

Considering the current energy mix, where the renewables cover only half of the
power production, the carbon footprint of accelerators is not negligible. In
addition, the large quantity of raw materials required for their constructions
and operations has an impact on the environmental sustainability of these
infrastructures. Previous studies targeted the reduction of energy consumption,
carbon footprint emission or material sustainability, but they were limited to
specialized studies on specific technical topics.





SOLUTIONS

RF2.0 will design, develop and on-field validate novel energy solutions for
components and systems, that allow to transform particle accelerators in
sustainable and energy efficient research infrastructures.

Following the RF2.0 approach, the focus lies on:

 * New highly-efficient components: permanent magnets for beam guiding and
   focusing magnets for accelerators, Solide State Amplifiers for accelerator
   high power RF systems
 * AI-assisted power management: optimized operations during beamtime,
   accelerated start-up and shut-down operations, digital twins for accelerators
   design and operations
 * Low carbon technologies integration: renewables and energy storage systems
   integration, power electronics-based transmission
 * Power consumption flexibility approaches for providing grid services:
   power-flexible high power computing, fast-dynamic monitoring systems

Through 4 demonstrator projects, the energy saving of the proposed solutions
will be validated under realistic conditions

IMPACT

Thanks to its holistic approach, RF2.0 addresses all expected outcomes of the
Horizon Europe call for the development of new technologies and solutions for
reducing the environmental and climate footprint of research infrastructures
within Europe.

The achieved innovations within RF2.0 will not only benefit research
infrastructures, but go far beyond. Medical centers, data centers, industrial
plants, and high-tech companies have very similar characteristics and face the
same challenges.

RF2.0 develops a methodology for addressing those challenges, offering a
flexible and multi-disciplinary energy management strategy as well as new
technologies and solutions for such energy-intensive facilities of high societal
relevance. 

Energy lab 2.0 at KIT- Large-scale
research infrastructure
for renewable energy




ApproachThe RF2.0 partners have identified several bottlenecks towards this
goal: at component and system level, involving both the physics and the energy
technology topics in an interdisciplinary and unique approach



ApproachThe RF2.0 partners have identified several bottlenecks towards this
goal: at component and system level, involving both the physics and the energy
technology topics in an interdisciplinary and unique approach

Al-assisted load management

 * New energy management approaches using AI
 * Digital twins of accelerator components and systems

New highly-efficient and reliable components

 * Permanent magnets
 * Semiconductor technologies
 * Solid-State Amplifiers

Power consumption flexibility approaches for providing grid services

 * Power electronics
   and DC grids
 * Fast measurement systems
   (Phasor Measurement Units)
 * Energy costs and resources analysis

Sustainable low carbon technologies integration

 * Energy storage systems and technologies (batteries, supercaps, hydrogen)
 * Flexible power consumption as for HPC centres / Renewable power-driven
   scientific computing




RF2.0
APPROACH

VISION

The RF2.0 partners vision is to design, operate and supply accelerators anytime
in a secure and stable way on 100% renewable energy, i.e., almost independently
from the public power grid, while reducing their environmental impact.

PARTNERS



Get in touch

Coordinator contact:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Giovanni De Carne 
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Institute of Technical Physics (ITEP)
Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, Building 668
76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen

Phone: +49 721 608-25924
E-Mail: giovanni.carne@kit.edu



This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe
research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101131850 and from
the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).



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RF2.0

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