Dr. Joachim Wünning

Laureate

Joachim Wünning
Organisation
WS Wärmeprozesstechnik GmbH
Function
General manager
Country
Germany
Field of work
General interest in environmental issues, Sustainable Energy
Awards
German Environmental Prize, 2011
Project
Clean efficient combustion
Reducing Waste from Hotel Breakfast
Green Hydrogen from Biogas

Joachim Wünning is an entrepreneur from the Stuttgart area. His company is developing, producing and selling low pollutant and highly efficient gas burners for heating high temperature industrial furnaces. Besides running the company, the engineer is involved in combustion research and actively participates in several national and international research projects regarding clean and efficient combustion. Together with his father, Wünning received the Deutsche Umweltpreis in 2011 for developing flameless oxidation - FLOX, a breakthrough for low NOx combustion.