Address: RWTH Aachen Uni­ver­si­ty
Depart­ment for Indus­tri­al Fur­naces and Heat Engi­nee­ring
Koper­ni­kus­str. 10
52074 Aachen
Pho­ne: +49 (0) 241–80 26068
E‑Mail: schwotzer@iob.rwth-aachen.de
Room: 01–204

Group Mana­ger Rene­wa­ble ener­gy and low CO2 pro­cess heating

Research

The main rese­arch inte­rest of Chris­ti­an Schwot­zer is the use of rene­wa­ble ener­gy in indus­tri­al fur­naces to redu­ce CO2 emis­si­ons in ther­mopro­ces­ses as part of the decar­bo­ni­sa­ti­on of the iron and steel, non-fer­rous, cera­mic and glas indus­try with a spe­cial focus on the com­bi­ned ana­ly­sis of tech­ni­cal, eco­lo­gi­cal and eco­no­mic aspects. He is the lea­der of the inno­va­ti­on net­work hybrid-hea­ting and has aut­ho­red or co-aut­ho­red 50 con­tri­bu­ti­ons to jour­nals, con­fe­rence pro­cee­dings or books as well as num­e­rous pos­ters and presentations.

Fields of activity

  • Reduc­tion of CO2 pro­cess emis­si­ons by sub­sti­tu­ti­on of fos­sil fuels with green ener­gy sources
  • Hybrid and fle­xi­ble hea­ting con­cepts (e.g. fos­sil fuels/electricity)
  • Tech­no-eco­no­mic eva­lua­tions and fea­si­bi­li­ty studies
  • Car­bon foot­print of indus­tri­al fur­naces and ther­mopro­cess technology

Projects und commitment

  • CO2-neu­tral pro­cess heat gene­ra­ti­on (Stu­dy for the Ger­man Envi­ron­ment Agen­cy, Umwelt­bun­des­amt – UBA)
  • Inno­va­ti­on Net­work Hybrid-Heating
  • Mem­ber of the advi­so­ry board of the clus­ter „uti­liza­ti­on“ of the Rese­arch Net­work Hydro­gen which is part of the Ener­gy Rese­arch Networks
  • Mem­ber of the sci­en­ti­fic advi­so­ry board of the VDMA pro­ject: “Cal­cu­la­ti­on of the pro­duct car­bon foot­print in mecha­ni­cal and plant engineering”
  • Mem­ber of the stee­ring com­mit­tee of the pro­ject “H2-dezen­tral”

Publi­ca­ti­ons

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