Leonardo Goncalo Melo, Project engineer

Leonardo Goncalo Melo

Project engineer

Emerson Climate Technologies

Lieu
Allemagne
Éducation
Master, Sustainable energy - Thermal energy
Expérience
14 years, 0 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :14 years, 0 Mois

Project engineer à Emerson Climate Technologies
  • Belgique
  • Je travaille ici depuis août 2013

Project engineer at the #1 compressor manufacturer in Europe. Responsible for the development of a new 46 kW R410A scroll compressor. This compressor will serve the high temperature commercial comfort market (heat pumps). The development of this new product includes supervision in the design (engineering calculations), lab testing, troubleshooting and certifications. Tasks also include management of a small lab workforce of technicians. Make sure they are always busy and that ongoing tests are successful.

Project manager à Groupe-E
  • Suisse
  • août 2011 à juillet 2013

Management/commissioning of new district heating networks based on biomass wood boilers. The job included planning, budget analysis, tendering processes, supplier negotiation, sizing and commissioning. Budgets ranged from 2 MCHF to 8 MCHF. As part of the job, a lot of field work was carried on, mainly managing teams of welders and workers building the heating distribution systems, coordinate turnkey solutions, attend meetings and mainly make sure the project respects high efficiency standards.

Junior engineer à Groupe-E
  • Suisse
  • janvier 2011 à août 2011

Elaboration of my master thesis “(Solar) heat pump integration into urban energy systems”. The project consisted in modelling of different energy conversion technologies and their respective economic and energy/exergy efficiencies when applied on a specific yearly heat demand profile compiled by a GIS database. (http://etd.dtu.dk/thesis/314413/). Parallel to this, there was already some involvement in project management tasks for the project related to my thesis.

Solar panel tester - Volunteer à LNEG
  • Portugal
  • juillet 2010 à août 2010

LNEG is one of the few laboratories in Europe that issues the Solar Keymark certification. My internship’s goals were to get more deeply acquainted to solar panel technology/testing and to spend my summer doing something interesting. This internship was non-paid.

Junior engineer à Groupe-E
  • Suisse
  • juillet 2008 à septembre 2008

Assistant to project managers in the design of district heating networks.

Maintenance engineer - Trainee à The lake resort
  • Portugal
  • juillet 2007 à septembre 2007

Assistant to the chief maintenance engineer.

Éducation

Master, Sustainable energy - Thermal energy
  • à Technical University of Denmark
  • juillet 2011

Sustainable energy program with focus on thermal systems such as solar energy, power plants, refrigeration cycles and general thermal processes. Modelling, integration and sustainability analysis of multi-energy based scenarios 100% renewable energy scenarios) based on the Danish 2020 zero carbon society. Insight into renewable energy policy and the barriers to its implementation.

Baccalauréat, Mechanical engineerging
  • à University of the Algarve
  • juin 2009

General diploma in mechanical engineering basics focused on thermal energy, HVAC studies, ASHRAE standards in calculations.

Specialties & Skills

Sustainable Energy
Thermodynamics
Problem Solving
Project Management
MS office

Langues

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