Miguel García-Monge Rábanos has received this year's award for Best Master's Thesis (TFM) from the Mariano López Navarro Chair of the University of Zaragoza, for his work “Characterization of thermal inertia and analysis of indoor air quality data in buildings in the tertiary sector”.
A student at the University of Zaragoza, he is a member of the Thermal Engineering and Energy Systems research group (GITSE). He had a TFM grant from the Green Office and, previously, a grant from the I3A to carry out his Final Degree Project.
His TFM is framed in the research line of experimentation in buildings through data analysis, which allows to evaluate the performance of buildings in terms of energy efficiency and environmental quality. In addition, “it can facilitate data-driven decision making by university infrastructure managers,” explains García-Monge.
He summarizes his work in two main chapters. The first focuses on the characterization of the thermal inertia of the buildings and air conditioning installations of the buildings of the University of Zaragoza, based on temperature records from multiple sensors. The objective is to improve the management of air conditioning schedules ensuring comfort and energy efficiency. In the second chapter, he studied the indoor air quality in several spaces of the new Faculty of Philosophy and Letters.
This award from the Mariano López Navarro Chair, “is a recognition of the effort and dedication to this TFM and acts as an impetus to continue deepening in this line of research”. He is now in the first year of the PhD program in Mechanical Engineering, in collaboration with the Maintenance Service and the Technical Unit of Constructions and Energy. He has a predoctoral contract from the DGA. He studied at the School of Engineering and Architecture the Degree in Electrical Engineering and the Master in Industrial Engineering.
He is part of the GITSE research group. "An experience that is being very positive. It all started with the internship for the development of my TFG at the Engineering Research Institute of Aragon, which allowed me to get into this line of research that I have continued with the TFM with the Green Office of Unizar and, now, with the doctoral thesis with Belén Zalba and Silvia Guillén. Also, I have been able to present my work and participate as a member of the organizing committee in the 14th National and 5th International Conference in Engineering Thermodynamics". This week, in addition, I received one of the awards given by the I3A at the Jornada de Jóvenes Investigadores e Investigadoras.
The Mariano López Navarro Chair also awarded a runner-up prize to the Master's thesis of Cristian Barón, from the Energy and CO2 (ECO2) group, for his TFM “Modeling of a Calcium-Looping plant: techno-economic comparison with other technologies in the steel industry”, and a runner-up prize to the Bachelor's thesis of Irene de Diego, who was part of the Thermochemical Processes group (GPT), entitled “Study of the combustion of ammonia/methanol mixtures”.
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