Valentin Crastan

Valentin Crastan (* 1932 in Genoa ) is a Swiss engineering scientist and retired university professor .

Life

Crastan is a descendant of Swiss emigrants who emigrated from Sent to Italy in the middle of the 19th century . Between 1942 and 1945 he attended elementary school in Sent. After leaving school, he studied electrical engineering and did his doctorate in Switzerland and Italy. From 1958 to 1963 he was with Brown, Boveri & Cie. employed, where he worked on the development of control systems in power engineering and managed the data center. Between 1963 and 1972 he was head of the energy studies group at Suiselectra . In 1972 he was appointed professor for energy technology and energy economics at what was then the Bern University of Applied Sciences, now the Bern University of Applied Sciences for Technology and Information Technology , where he stayed for 25 years, nine years of which (1983-1992) as dean of the electrical engineering department, until he retired in 1997 .

In addition, Crastan is the author of several specialist books , including the three-volume standard work Electrical Energy Supply , which first appeared in 1999. The 3rd revised edition followed in 2012. In 2010 the monograph Worldwide Energy Economics and Climate Protection 2009 was published , which was also published in an English-language edition in the same year under the title Global energy economics and climate protection report 2009 . Update of the German edition (2nd edition) 2016. Further monographs: in 2014 Global Energy Demand and 2-degree Target, Report 2014, which was updated in 2015 and published in French. In 2016 the German edition Weltweiter Energiebedarf und 2-Degree-Ziel and in 2017 the Springer "essential" appeared: climate-effective indicators for Europe and Eurasia.

Monographs (selection)

• Climate-impacting indicators for Europe and Eurasia. essential Springer Vieweg, 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-19514-4 , ISBN 978-3-658-19515-1 (eBook).
• Worldwide energy requirements and a 2-degree target. Springer Vieweg, 2016, ISBN 978-3-662-53420-5 , ISBN 978-3-662-53421-2 (eBook)
• Worldwide energy industry and climate protection. 2nd, updated edition, Berlin - Heidelberg 2016. ISBN 978-3-662-52654-5 .
• Electrical energy supply 1st 4th edition Berlin - Heidelberg, 2015, ISBN 978-3-662-45984-3
• Demande mondiale d'énergie et objectif 2 ° C, Report 2015, Cracon 2015. ISBN 978-2-9700650-5-0 .
• Global Energy Demand and 2-degree Target, Report 2014. Springer, Heidelberg, New York, London, 2014, ISBN 978-3-319-12309-7 .
• Electric energy supply. 3 vols. Berlin - Heidelberg, first edition 1999, 3rd edition 2012.
• Global Energy Demand and Climate Protection Report 2012. Cracon 2012, ISBN 978-2-9700650-4-3 .
• Global Energy Economics and Climate Protection Report 2009. Springer 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-11872-2 , ISBN 978-3-642-11873-9 (eBook)
• Worldwide energy industry and climate protection 2009. Berlin - Heidelberg 2010. ISBN 978-3-642-10786-3 .
• Energy policy in the field of tension between ecology and progress. Biel 1989, ISBN 3-906140-05-9 .

Web links

• Valentin Crastan's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Silvia Crastan . Website from Sent. Retrieved April 27, 2014.
2. ↑ Climate change - necessary climate policy measures . Brief description of CV. Retrieved April 27, 2014.