Werner Mühlbauer

Werner Mühlbauer (born April 11, 1941 in Geislingen ) is a German engineer and agricultural scientist, particularly in agricultural engineering, he was professor of agricultural engineering in the tropics and subtropics at the Institute for Agricultural Engineering at the University of Hohenheim .

Live and act

Mühlbauer obtained his Abitur in Stuttgart in 1963, where he also completed his mechanical engineering studies at the University of Stuttgart and graduated in 1968 with a mechanical engineering degree. From 1969 he was a research associate at the Institute for Agricultural Engineering at the University of Hohenheim and after receiving his doctorate as a Dr. Ing. In Stuttgart as chief engineer of this institute in Hohenheim. At the Chair of Agricultural Engineering at the University of Hohenheim, Mühlbauer completed his habilitation in the field of agricultural engineering in 1986. First he became professor for energy technology at the Institute for Agricultural Engineering and from 1989 professor for agricultural engineering in the tropics and subtropics at the University of Hohenheim until he retired in 2004

Main research areas

• Solar energy, use in agriculture; Post-harvest technology of tropical products; Drying and storage of grain; Mathematical modeling and simulation of drying processes

Self-management functions

GD of the Institute for Agricultural Engineering in the Tropics and Subtropics; Head of the Tropical Center

Memberships and honors

• Association of German Engineers; International Society of Solar Engineering; Asian Association of
• Agriculture Engineers; American Society of Agriculture Engineers

Publications (selection)

• Technologies for energy saving in agriculture: status report 1984; solar drying, use of biomass, integrated energy concepts, greenhouse horticulture , Federal Ministry for Research u. Technology. (Ed .: Inst. For Agricultural Engineering at the University of Hohenheim on behalf of the Federal Minister for Research and Technology and Project Management for Energy Research Jülich), 284 pages, Hohenheim 1984
• Grain drying manual: Basics and procedures 523 pages, Verlag Clenze Agrimedia 2009, ISBN 978-3-86037-981-3

literature

• Ulrich Fellmeth : The academic teachers at the University of Hohenheim Stuttgart 2008 (Hohenheimer topics, special volume, 15th / 16th year) Werner Mühlbauer pages 302, 303.
• Documentation for the celebratory colloquium on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. hc Alfred Stroppel on September 10, 2004. Self-published by Dettingen / Teck, 2005