Submit your candidature for IEA’s 2011 Rittinger award

By Sabine Lobnig, Jan 25, 2011, 14:20 2 minute reading

hydrocarbons21.com is calling on the hydrocarbon industry to submit entries for the ‘Peter Ritter von Rittinger award 2011’ announced by the IEA Heat Pumping Technologies Programme.

The awards recognise deserving individuals or teams that have distinguished themselves in the advancement of heat pump technologies applications, market development and related dissemination activities with lasting international impact. They will be presented at the International Heat Pump Conference 2011, which will be held in Tokyo, Japan in May 2011.

Criteria for the award
  • An award may be given to a team or group as well as to an individual
  • The contribution(s) shall have been made in heat pump market development, technology advancement or applications, or administration/organization of heat pumping activities with international involvement or impact.
  • That the contribution(s) of the candidate(s) are truly significant (having made a significant and lasting difference) and are widely recognized as such.
  • That the candidate(s) in fact played a key role in the contribution or achievement.
  • That the candidate(s) persevered to achieve a significant contribution despite difficulties or opposition or lack of support.

Previous winners

Previous award editions (2005 and 2008), have recognised teams and individuals, including on their work with natural refrigerants. For example:
  • Professor Predrag S. Hrnjak from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was awarded the 2008 Rittinger Medal, in recognition among other issues of his work in leading a multi-year programme that produced the first widely accepted comparison between conventional HFC systems, transcritical carbon dioxide systems and hydrocarbons systems with secondary loops.
  • Research Team GEMINI – Center Applied Refrigeration in Norway, who combined talents of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and SINTEF Energy Research to advance and promote CO2 heat pump technology, was awarded in 2005.

Background

The award was for the first time presented at the IEA International Heat Pump Conference in 2005 and is named after Peter Ritter von Rittinger, an Austrian engineer who is credited with design and installation of the first practical heat pump system at a salt works in Upper Austria in 1856. 

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By Sabine Lobnig

Jan 25, 2011, 14:20




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