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Instructors: Prof. Dr. Irene Peters; Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ingo Weidlich
Event type:
Project
Org-unit: Stadtplanung
Displayed in timetable as:
SP: IP
Crediting for:
Hours per week:
2
Location:
Hamburg
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | 30
Registration group: M1-Studienprojekt
Grading:
Zusätzliche Informationen zu Terminen:
Das Projekt findet in Präsenz statt. Die Veranstaltung wird zweisprachig durchgeführt.
The project takes place at HCU. The project will be bilingual (germ/eng.)
Beschreibung:
This course is a “study project”, i. e. it consists of participants’ team work on an applied topic. It is offered for Civil Engineering and Urban Planning students, for whom it earns 10 CP, and for REAP students, for whom it earns 5 CP (workloads will be tailored accordingly). It is also open to Erasmus students. Project language will English and German. We are pragmatic and take everyone along who has a serious interest in this course. The language for the project report can be English or German or mixed (some chapters in one language, others in the other) depending on the composition of the respective participant teams.
This year’s topic is Heat Pumps. Electricity-driven heat pumps are a key technology for the energy transition (Energiewende), and the key technology for the space heating transition (Wärmewende). The idea is that they use free heat sources (ambient heat and waste heat) which they bring to a usable temperature level with an efficient use of green electricity. In Germany, impending legislation (the Gebäudeenergiegesetz, GEG) implies that building owners have very few options to heat their homes in the future: Connection to a district heating grid (where available); heat pumps; and, to a lesser degree, the combustion of biomass and (green) H2 (these latter with a very limited scope though).
This interdisciplinary study project looks at heat pumps from different perspectives. Groups of two to five students can work on different aspects, e.g.
(1)_The functioning of a heat pump and its technical parameters (possible heat sources, temperature hub, electric and heat capacity, scalability) for typical applications (e.g., small and large residential buildings, institutional and commercial buildings, heat pumps in district heating systems and industrial applications)
(2)_Urban Planning of installing heat pumps. For which buildings are they suitable, for which not? Space requirements for installing heat pumps, above and below ground, noise emissions; coordination of heat pumps as building based solutions vs. expansion of district heating systems
(3)_The implications for the power grid (local & regional), of a large-scale switch from the combustion of oil and gas to electric heat pumps; the suitability of heat pumps to provide flexibility to the power grid.
(4)_The material requirements of heat pumps and associated challenges: Raw materials that are critical for environmental or strategic-geopolitical reasons: recyclability of material ingredients of heat pumps.
(5)_Industrial policy towards establishing (or keeping) the expertise and capacity to produce and install heat pumps (recall the controversial sale of the heat pump branch of the German Viessmann company to the U.S. Carrier Global company).
We will invite experts to offer their insights and experience, and will go on an excursion to FH Westküste in Heide, Schleswig-Holstein, where our colleagues run a research and demonstration lab for heating technology.
Kontakt:
ingo.weidlich@hcu-hamburg.de, irene.peters@hcu-hamburg.de
Module:
SP-M-Mod-101 / REAP-M-Mod-304 / REAP-M-Mod-305
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