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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Miguel Gonzalez-Salazar
Faculty of Business and Engineering
97421 Schweinfurt
Office hours: Wednesdays from 2:45 p.m. to 3:45 p.m
My name is Miguel Gonzalez-Salazar, I am since April 2023 research professor for strategies and technologies for climate change mitigation at the Faculty of Industrial Engineering at the Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt (THWS). I am passionate for exploring novel solutions to some of the most pressing challenges we face now, climate change and energy supply. My mission is to inspire students to discover and achieve more than they could have imagined, to learn from them and together with them. My superpowers are empathy and curiosity, I love to learn. I also love to teach. I am humbled to have spent several years in the energy industry and have had the fortune to live in different countries and work together with great minds. Sharing this experience is the meaning of what I do. My research covers three areas, namely low carbon strategies and solutions, analysis of energy systems at a power plant and network levels, and life cycle assessment (LCA). You find more info about my research in the links below.
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Research areas
My professorship focuses on three main research areas:
1. Low carbon strategies and technologies. This relates to the evaluation and optimization of strategies to reduce emissions associated to different sectors including energy, mobility, buildings and agriculture. Methods employed for the evaluation include Integrated Assessment Models (IAM), Uncertainty Quantification, and techno-economic and environmental optimization.
2. Analysis of energy systems at a power plant and network levels. This relates to the conceptual design and optimization of:
• Innovative technologies for energy conversion at a power plant level, for example gas turbines, combined heat and power technologies, waste heat recovery, energy storage (compressed air energy storage, electric batteries, heat storage), carbon capture, bioenergy conversion routes, etc. This involves mainly process engineering, thermodynamics, thermal science, etc.
• Combination of multiple energy conversion technologies in a network energy system, for example a power grid, a district heating network or a gas distribution grid. This involves state-of-the-art optimization tools and IAMs.
3. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). This relates to the evaluation of the environmental impacts of products or services using the widely known methodology of life cycle assessment. This includes the collection of data used as inputs, the development of LCA models, the generation and interpretation of results, as well as benchmarking results against other LCA studies.