News within Thermodynamics and Refrigeration
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A Unique Opportunity: PhD position on “Energy Management in Sport Facilities”
Image by Bangyu Wang on unsplash.com Published May 15, 2025We invite applications for a PhD position at KTH Royal Institute of Technology focusing on Energy Management in Sport Facilities. This unique, collaborative research initiative brings together Energy ...
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Björn Palm signed an opinion paper to the Swedish government
Published May 06, 2025The authors of this position paper, more than a 1000 researchers from the different institutions, argue that politicians must listen to the research when making decisions.
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ASHRAE visit to the Division of Applied Thermodynamics and Refrigeration
Published Apr 25, 2025We are excited to report some very important ASHRAE visits in November 2024 and February 2025 to KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Energy Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Hatef Madani becomes Principal Scientist at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
Hatef Madani (to the left) will keep his position at KTH, but will also spend time in the supervision team at AIT, supervising students at KTH in Stockholm and in Vienna. Published Apr 15, 2025Hatef Madani is researching the development of the next generation of sustainable heating systems for use in European urban areas at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology and KTH. In a part-time po...
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KTH Researchers Take Leading Roles in the International Solar Energy Society
Published Apr 14, 2025A strong delegation from the Department of Energy Technology at KTH is helping shape the global solar energy agenda through active leadership roles in the International Solar Energy Society (ISES) – a...
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A group of representatives of Polish Energy sector visit KTH
Published Apr 10, 2025This visit is a part of a larger two-days program "NAVIGATING ENERGY SECURITY IN A DECARBONIZED FUTURE", where the leading Swedish energy actors will meet their Polish colleagues for a knowledge excha...
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100 years of the Division of Thermodynamics and Refrigeration
Published Apr 07, 2025The Division of Thermodynamics and Refrigeration, which is a part of the Energy Technology Department at KTH, has a centenary-old history.
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A humanized electricity grid
Published May 31, 2024Can you combine the requirements from the electricity grid and the needs from the consumers? Researchers at KTH will combine multiple energy storage technologies with insights from human behavior, the...
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Saman wants to save the climate – with flexible energy storage
Published May 31, 202450 percent of the world's final energy is used in cooling and heating. Yet little attention is paid to the technologies behind it, the role thermal energy storage plays in it, and its connection to el...
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Second Young-researcher's best paper award
Published Dec 01, 2021Second Young Researcher’s Best Paper Award at the conference PRO-VE Smart and Sustainable Collaborative Networks goes to Elena Malakhatka
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The winner of Ebbe Lyths Scholarship 2021
Christofer Kronström Published Dec 01, 2021Christofer Kronström, student at KTH, has been awarded Ebbe Lyths scholarship 2021
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KTH Live-in Lab's presents its annual report for 2020
Published May 07, 2021"2020 has once again been a very exciting year for KTH Live-In Lab as a research center", writes CEO Jonas Anund Vogel in the newly released annual report.
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Energy students present their work at the Legionella information day
Published Apr 30, 2021Jennie Lindblom and Linnea Persson, our 2020 KEX Students, have presented their work at Legionella information day hosted by Säker Vatten (an organization with focus on safe water installations in bui...
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Being relevant is key to dissemination
Published Apr 07, 2021The energy field can make large contributions to a sustainable future – which is the reason why Björn Palm from Department of Energy Technology goes to work every morning. Being relevant to the indust...
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Per Lundqvist - new Vice President for Sustainability
Published Mar 29, 2021Per Lundqvist from EGI has become the new Vice President for Sustainable Development at KTH
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Open position as Industrial PhD student at NIBE
Published Feb 23, 2021One of Europe’s leading manufacturers of heat pumps, NIBE, together with Electricité de France (EDF) is looking for an industrial ph.d. student, to be supervised from the French university Mines Paris...
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Developments on the refrigerant front during the past year
Published Jan 03, 2019When we come to the last publication of the year, we usually look back on what has happened during the year, with a focus on the transition to new environmentally friendly refrigerants. The following ...
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Low GWP refrigerants: previous and ongoing projects
Published Dec 03, 2018"Refrigerants with low Global Warming Potential" is the title of the project carried out within Effsys Expand research program and supported by the Energy Agency together with a number of companies. ...
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Environmentally friendly refrigeration systems are needed to mitigate the climate change
Published Sep 28, 2018The current EU regulations already address the environmental impact of refrigeration systems by replacing high GWP refrigerants with low-to-zero GWP refrigerants. Recent studies, however, show that th...
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