District Heating Topics

What we offer

Exciting tasks from ongoing research projects that advance us and you and whose results do not end up in a drawer. Early collaboration in the field is often the ideal start for later work in research.

Range of tasks

Topics are assigned taking into account the students' areas of interest and qualifications. Students can also contribute their own ideas when formulating the task and the concrete work packages. Here are some exemplary topics of the last years to give an overview of the task spectrum:

Conceptual design and evaluation of thermal systems:

• Development of economic incentive models for the reduction of return temperatures in district heating networks.
• Conceptual design of an innovative renewable sub-network in the conversion area Benjamin Franklin Village
• Development and evaluation of different local heating network solutions for a specific application in a rural area
• Evaluation of different design and operation concepts for low temperature networks

Implementation of simulation studies:

• Modeling of district heating house connections with variable return temperatures
• Determination of cyclic thermal pipe loads in heat networks
• Investigation of electricity price-led heat generation for district heating networks using large-scale heat pumps
• Modeling of an innovative district heating supply scenario with the software energyPRO
• Simulation-based investigation of heat transfer stations and decentralized plant technology in connection with ultra-low temperature heat networks

Acquisition and analysis of measurement data of real plants or experimental investigations in the laboratory:

• Integration of waste heat sources into the local heating network of the university at Holländischer Platz

In most cases, questions have to be answered against the background of the heat transition towards renewable energies. The students are supported in their work by the methodical competence of the staff.

If there are no current topics on the website or in the glass box of the department, it will usually be possible to find a suitable task in conversation with the staff. Feel free to contact us with concrete suggestions and your own ideas!

Requirements

• Basic technical understanding
• independent way of working
• Interest in complex problems
• Knowledge of simulation programs (desirable)
• knowledge of programming languages, especially Python (desirable)

Scope of a HiWi position

By arrangement, between 10 and 40 hours per month

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