Researcher Profile

Field: Smart Spatial Planning Systems

Main Research: Efficient industrial processes, High temperature heat pumps

Experience:

• 2014-: Research Engineer
  AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH / Austria
• 2013-2014: Post-Doc
  Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Chemical, Environmental and Bioscience Engineering / Austria
• 2010-2013: Project Assistant
  Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Chemical, Environmental and Bioscience Engineering / Austria
• 2009-2014: Researcher
  Bioenergy2020+ GmbH / Austria

• since 2018: Member of the guideline committee VDI 4646 "Applications of large heat pumps"
• since 2017: Member of the ICHP working group on Industrial and Commercial Heat Pumps of the European Heat Pump Association EHPA

• 2016: Best Poster Award, Gleisdorf Solar 2016
• 2014: Promotion prize of the Vienna Municipal Department for Environmental Matters
• 2014: Science Award Lions Club Wien St. Stephan
• 2014: Scholarship for participation in the European Forum Alpbach
• 2009: Participation in „TUtheTOP – Das HighPotential Programm der TU Wien“
• 2007: Participation in „TUtheTOP – Das HighPotential Programm der TU Wien“
• 2008: Performance Scholarship of the Faculty of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Vienna University of Technology
• 2007: Performance Scholarship of the Faculty of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Vienna University of Technology
• 2006: Performance Scholarship of the Faculty of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Vienna University of Technology

• Analysis of optimization potential in commercial biomass gasification plants using process simulation
  Author(s): V. Wilk, H. Hofbauer
  Journal: Fuel Processing Technology, 141 (2016) ; 138 - 147

• Planungsleitfaden: EnPro - Erneuerbare Prozesswärme;
  Integration von Solarthermie und Wärmepumpen in industrielle Prozesse
  Author(s): V. Wilk, B. Windholz, M. Hartl, T. Fleckl, J. Fluch, A. Grubbauer, C. Brunner, D. Lange, D. Wertz, K. Ponweiser
  Publisher: ; Vienna; 2017
  Series: Klima- und Energiefonds
• Thermo-chemische Umwandlungsprozesse (Kap. 11.2);
  Energie aus Biomasse
  Author(s): V. Wilk, H. Hofbauer, M. Kaltschmitt
  Publisher: Springer Vieweg; Berlin; 2016; 646 - 683; 978-3-662-47437-2
  Series: M. Kaltschmitt, H. Hartmann, H. Hofbauer; 3

• Industriewärmepumpen in Österreich: Status Quo und Potentiale
  Author(s): V. Wilk, T. Fleckl, A. Arnitz, R. Rieberer
  Conference 11. Internationale Energiewirtschaftstagung an der TU Wien, Vienna
• Design zweier Wärmepumpen-Demoanlagen für die industrielle Trocknung
  Author(s): V. Wilk, M. Lauermann, F. Helminger
  Conference Deutsche Kälte- und Klimatagung 2018 (DKV), Aachen
• Techno-ökonomische Analyse von Wärmepumpen für die industrielle Trocknung mit Monte-Carlo-Simulationen
  Author(s): V. Wilk, M. Lauermann, M. Hartl, R. Priesner, S. Puskas
  Conference 15. Symposium Energieinnovation, Graz
  Proceedings Institut für Elektrizitätswirtschaft und Energieinnovation; Tagungsband des 15. Symposium Energieinnovation
• Valorization of Industrial Waste Heat by Heat Pumps based on Case Studies of Project ENPRO
  Author(s): V. Wilk, B. Windholz, R. Jentsch, T. Fleckl, J. Fluch, A. Grubbauer, C. Brunner, D. Lange, D. Wertz, K. Ponweiser
  Conference 12th IEA Heat Pump Conference, Rotterdam
• Hochtemperatur-Wärmepumpe für Industrieanwendungen: Prüfstandsmessungen und Systemsimulation
  Author(s): V. Wilk, M. Hartl, T. Fleckl, E. Widhalm, F. Ramler, G. Adelberger, T. Ciepiela, K. Ochsner sen.
  Conference Tagungsband Deutsche Kälte- und Klimatagung 2016, Kassel

• Project homepage DryFiciency
• Project homepage EnPro
• Publications AIT publications database