Content

Raising environmental heat to the temperature level of space heating and hot water by means of the heat pump principle spans the solution space that will replace the current low-temperature heat supply based on fossil, but also biogenic fuels in the future. One of the greatest challenges of this transformation is scalability to the scale of residential neighborhoods, urban districts and entire cities. In urban densification areas, borehole heat exchangers with solar thermal regeneration have particular advantages in terms of scaling to large numbers of connected users.

In this work, the potentials of land use for probe fields and regeneration in urban areas will be quantitatively evaluated. It is to be determined how these potentials can be raised under the real conditions of dynamics and economy in a living city. Based on this, financing concepts will be developed to bring these infrastructures into economic viability.

Your requirements

You have a high interest in developing innovative solutions, the ability to work on your own initiative, good knowledge in technical thermodynamics, analysis and numerical methods, as well as basic knowledge in business administration and economics.

We offer

A scientific environment in which your work is embedded in the context of national and international energy system transformation. Our department "Integrated Energy Systems" develops informational, analytical and numerical methods for techno-economic assessment of new energy infrastructures, especially at the system level. At the university, an interdisciplinary institute for sustainability has currently been founded, through which this work topic is placed in the context of the faculties of electrical engineering and computer science, economics, civil and environmental engineering, social sciences, mechanical engineering and others.

Contact

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Clemens Hoffmann