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Mohammad Khosravi (link) and Felix Bünning received the ETH medal for their doctoral theses at the doctoral ceremony on January 20. (Photo: ETH Zurich)
The ETH medal was awarded as part of the doctoral ceremony on January 20. At the same time, a prize of CHF 2,000 will be awarded with the award. The winners this year included two researchers who had written their doctoral theses on their research at Empa — Felix Bünning and Mohammad Khosravi.
Optimized energy management
Felix Bünning's work focused on the optimized control of buildings and how this can both save energy and increase the flexibility of the entire energy system — a highly relevant topic in times of energy scarcity. To optimize the heating and cooling of a building, Bünning combined the approach of ”Model Predictive Control” with “machine learning” approaches. This saves between 26 and 49 percent in heating or cooling energy. At the same time, buildings or entire districts can be used as temporary storage facilities, which can also make the stored energy available again when it is needed somewhere else. Bünning's work in Empa's “Urban Energy Systems Lab” also resulted in the spin-off “viboo”, which will now bring optimised control of buildings onto the market.
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