
Ao.Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Karl PONWEISER
Getreidemarkt 9/302 , A-1060 Vienna
Raum: BA04 A11
Tel.: +43-1-58801-302310
Tel.: +43-1-58801-70210
Fax: +43-1-58801-302399
karl.ponweiser@tuwien.ac.at
Research & Working areas
- Thermodynamics of regenerative and industrial energy systems
- Grids for thermal energy
Member in scientific societies
- ProcessNet - an Initiative of DECHEMA (Society for chemical Engineering and Biotechnology) and VDI-GVC (the Association of German Engineers- Society for Chemical and Process Engineering)
- EUROTHERM (European Committee for the Advancement of Thermal Sciences and Heat Transfer)
Rewiewings for
- Journal of Power and Energy
- Applied Thermal Engineering
- International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer
Courses
The courses can be retrieved by the following link:
Actual projects
- Solarthermal Systems
- Geothermal Systems
- ASPeCT, Adaptive Smoothed Production
- SANBA, Developing a simulation algorithm for a low-temperature heating/cooling grid for the future Smart Anergy Quarter Baden
- CORES, Integration of combined, renewable energy systems into industry
Finished projects
- DryPump, Efficient drying with compression heat pumps
- heat_portfolio, Technical basis for integration of decentralized available alternative heat sources in heating networks
- P2H-POT, Potentials for Power-to-Heat (P2H)
- CI-NERGY, Smart cities with sustainable energy systems
- DEGENT-NET, Decentralized geothermal low temperature district heating Networks in urban Areas
- EnPro, Integration of solar thermal energy and heat pumps into industrial processes
- SteamUp, Heat pump systems up to 200°C with working fluid water, integration in industrial processes
- GeoHeat.at, upgrading of conventional heating supply and industrial plants with use of deep geothermy and seasonal storage
- Co Opt, coordinated optimisation of renewable energy with planning and in operation of buildings
- INFO, interdisciplinary research for energy optimisation in production facilities
- Energy Balance of a Walking Beam Furnace
- Drafting of an Expert's Eeport on Energy and Industrial Waste Heat for a Steel Works (ESA-L6)
- Study of Heat Transfer Enhancement at Tubes
- Heat Transfer Enhancement due to Turbulence Promoters
- Drafting of an expert's report about the abilities to meet the future demands on the cooling centre II of AKH-Wien
- Furnace water/steam side stability analysis
- Drafting of an expert's report on energy and industrial waste heat for a steel works (ESA-05)
- Thoroughly check of the thermal calculation of steam boiler
- Investigation of the thermal behaviour of district heating coupled drinking water heating systems
- Calculation of the water distribution in a cooling stack
- CFD analysis of flue gas flow in the channel between the gas turbine and the boiler of a heat recovery steam generator with horizontal gas duct
- Optimization of the ribs of a drying cylinder which is working in supercritical operation
- Investigation of heat and mass transfer between paper, sieve, and environment at the BOOST DRYER process
- Investigation of the thermal behaviour of a DVS embedded systems
- CFD simulation of the flow field in the oil basin of a tempering kiln