For its task Structured Heat Exchange for Optimized Water Energy Recovery (SHOWER), Dr. Fischer’s group got the award in the Research classification. As the acronym recommends, the task concentrates on bathing and hot water generation. Showers are the second-largest energy customer in families, while waste heat stays the best untapped energy source. To harness this capacity, Dr. Michael-David Fischer, Simon Baier, Laura Jakobsen-Urwald, Luis Ohm, Andre Grütering, and Solvejg Höller are developing maintenance-free heat exchangers. Their innovation could conserve majority of the energy required for hot water production– such as for bathing. In Germany alone, this would make it possible to minimize annual carbon dioxide emissions by up to 10 million tonnes. The group works in close cooperation with business and market partners to advance this advancement.
A jury of professionals from academic community and practice chose the recipients from 28 submissions. In the Teaching category, a project from Ruhr University Bochum was recognized, while in the Transfer category, a job from the German Sport University Cologne got the award. “This year’s submissions as soon as again demonstrate how varied, creative, and practice-oriented the responses from NRW’s clinical neighborhood are to the obstacles of the sustainability transition,” stressed jury chair Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Lambert T. Koch. “The Humboldtⁿ Award makes a crucial contribution by raising awareness of these options, supporting their implementation, and motivating new ideas.” The Future Conference at the University of Duisburg-Essen brought together agents from universities and non-university research study organizations in NRW with policymakers from the state government.
About Humboldtⁿ
In 2021, the 16 universities of North Rhine-Westphalia signed up with forces with the Wuppertal Institute for Environment, Environment, Energy to launch the Humboldtⁿ effort, with the objective of actively promoting sustainability within higher education. Considering that 2023, the Humboldtⁿ Award has existed biennially to give greater presence to sustainable research study.