Studienprojekte in Energie und Umwelt / Case Studies

General Information

Why is everything here suddenly in English? The course is held mainly in English to facilitate and understand the implementation and application of scientific studies.

• Lecturer: Dr. Maximilian Happach & Constantin Dierstein
• Kick-Off: 11.04.2023 - 4.DS - SCH A419/U
• The focus of the course is the independent processing and scientific analysis of a current topic in the energy sector. The students will work as a group and produce a scientific report as a result.

The schedule of the event is planned as follows:

• Kick-off meeting

• Regular consultations

• Interim presentations in the plenum on the progress of the project

• Final presentation and final report

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This year's topic

Heat Atlas for Germany
A bottom-up analysis of the German heat demand

The study project deals with a bottom-up analysis of possible heat sinks. For this
purpose, the object-specific heat demand is to be determined with a daily
resolution based on geo-information on buildings and facilities. The basis for this
is freely accessible infrastructure and weather data as well as temperature curves.
In a first step, necessary information and data on heat demand on building level
shall be collected and cataloged. This data set must be georeferenced and serves
as the basis for all further calculations. In the second step, possible different heat
consumers shall be identified and categorized. Using different assumptions and
information (e.g. type and age of the building, outdoor temperature, location, etc.)
from the previous step, the individual heat demand of each object shall be
determined using a scalable calculation method. This results in a temporal courseof the heat demand for Germany with a high granularity, which is to be used for further analyses in the third step. This involves the identification of special heat sinks, the geographic evaluation, but also the explicit derivation of strategies and options for action against the background of the heat transition and the associated goals and targets.