Dipl.-Ing. Peter Thonhofer
Phone: +43 316 481300 14
Fax: +43 316 481300 4
Email: thonhofer@bios-bioenergy.at
| 1969 | Born in Mürzzuschlag (A) |
| 1984 - 1989 | Technical college in Pinkafeld – branch of study: mechanical engineering - installation, domestic technique and energy management |
| 1989-1995 | Universitiy study of chemical engineering – branch of study: “process engineering” at the Technical University of Graz |
| 1995 - 2000 | Project engineer at BIOS BIOENERGIESYSTEME GmbH |
| since 2001 | Shareholder at BIOS BIOENERGIESYSTEME GmbH |
| since 2001 | Project manager at BIOS BIOENERGIESYSTEME GmbH |
| since 2005 | Area manager engineering at BIOS BIOENERGIESYSTEME GmbH |
Working areas
- Area Management Engineering
- Project Management
- Participation in / lead of national and international R&D projects
- Heating plants and combined heat, power and chilling plants (CHPC plants)
- Small-scale combined heat and power plants
- District heating networks
- Heat recovery units and flue gas condensation units
- Wood pellet production plants
Key competences
- Preliminary design, detailed design and preparing of requests for bids
- Authorisation procedures including the preparation of permit applications
- Funding management and preparation of funding proposal (national and international)
- Construction oversight, start-up and commissioning
- Monitoring and optimisation (furnaces, control systems, hydronic)
- Revamping of plants and operation mode change
- Plant layout
- Integration of load management and storage concepts in energy centers
- Expertises regarding the optimisation of plants including required measures for troubleshooting
- Techno-economic assessment of decentralized biomass-fired combined heat and power plants
- Project manager of about 100 projects in the working areas mentioned above (national and international)
- Training courses in the working areas mentioned above