In the scope of the project "Start Up Factory Kumasi - Paderborn" funded by the DAAD, the research assistant Mark Piper and the student Björn Klusmann from the Chair of Fluid Process Engineering (FVT), traveled from the 06/11/-14/11/2015 along with nine further staff and students from the University of Paderborn as well as two students from the Erfurt University of Applied Sciences, to Ghana. The seven students from the University of Paderborn come from diverse backgrounds as economics, industrial engineering, mechanical engineering and electrical engineering. They were accompanied by four research assistants from the chairs Electrical Energy Technology – Sustainable Energy Concepts (NEK) with the overall project leader Tobias Klaus, and from International Business and FVT.
Through the project, a young entrepreneur in Ghana is supported in the realization of a tropical passive house. A further focus is the cooperation between universities and companies. Fourteen students from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi work together with the German students on tasks involving architecture, climate control, business planning, photovoltaic and energy management.
At the FVT, a thermal analysis study for the passive house is being conducted within the scope of a bachelor thesis.
