FAHRENHEIT GMBH

Their core work

Fahrenheit is a Munich-based SME that develops and manufactures adsorption chillers and heat pumps, specializing in thermally-driven cooling and heating systems. Their core technology converts low-grade waste heat or solar thermal energy into useful cooling or heating, making them a go-to partner for projects needing efficient thermal energy conversion. Across 9 H2020 projects, they have contributed adsorption and sorption-based components to building retrofitting, solar heating/cooling, industrial cooling, and even maritime decarbonisation applications.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

In their earlier projects (2016–2019), Fahrenheit focused on building-scale applications — hybrid electrical/thermal storage, geothermal heat pump integration, and smart control systems for residential and tertiary buildings. From 2019 onward, their work shifted toward solar-driven adsorption systems and more compact, modular designs, with repeated emphasis on solar collectors, heat exchangers, and seasonal storage. Most recently, with ENGIMMONIA (2021), they branched into maritime decarbonisation, applying their adsorption technology to shipboard waste heat recovery — signaling a strategic move beyond buildings into transport.

Fahrenheit is expanding from stationary building applications into mobile/maritime and industrial sectors, suggesting future collaborations could target any domain with available waste heat or solar thermal input.

How they like to work

Fahrenheit operates exclusively as a participant, never coordinating — they join consortia as a specialist technology provider contributing their adsorption hardware and thermal engineering know-how. With 121 unique partners across 22 countries and 9 projects, they rarely repeat partners, indicating they are sought after by diverse consortia rather than locked into a fixed network. This makes them an accessible and experienced partner who integrates smoothly into new teams.

Fahrenheit has built an extensive European network of 121 unique consortium partners spanning 22 countries, reflecting broad demand for their adsorption technology across diverse energy and building projects. Their partnerships are geographically distributed with no strong regional bias beyond a natural concentration in EU member states.

What sets them apart

Fahrenheit occupies a rare niche as a commercial manufacturer of adsorption chillers who actively participates in EU research — most adsorption technology providers are either purely academic or too small for sustained R&D engagement. Their ability to bring real hardware (not just simulations) into consortium projects makes them valuable for demonstration-oriented Innovation Actions, which account for more than half their portfolio. For any project needing thermally-driven cooling or heating components with proven hardware, they are one of few SMEs that can deliver from lab to pilot scale.

Highlights from their portfolio

• HyCool
  Industrial cooling application combining Fresnel solar panels with hybrid heat pumps (EUR 539,438) — demonstrates their capability beyond residential buildings into industrial processes.
• Heat4Cool
  Their largest funded project (EUR 700,511), focusing on smart building retrofitting with solar-assisted heat pumps — the project that established their H2020 track record.
• ENGIMMONIA
  Marks a strategic pivot into maritime decarbonisation, applying adsorption chillers to ship waste heat recovery with ammonia engines — their first project outside the buildings sector.