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  • A humanized electricity grid

    Lorenz Payonga, doctoral student at KTH’s Department of Energy Technology, is involved in the PARMEN
    Published May 31, 2024

    Can 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

    Saman Nimali Gunasekara explores how flexible sector coupling between thermal energy and electric po
    Published May 31, 2024

    50 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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  • Apply for Ebbe Lyth scholarship

    Published Mar 02, 2022

    Call for Ebbe Lyth scholarship is now open

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  • Second Young-researcher's best paper award

    Elena Malakhatka
    Published Dec 01, 2021

    Second 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
    Christofer Kronström
    Published Dec 01, 2021

    Christofer 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

    Jennie and Linnea
    Published Apr 30, 2021

    Jennie 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

    Illustration of Björn Palm surrounded by houses and greenery.
    Published Apr 07, 2021

    The 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

    Per Lundqvist, Professor, Vice Rector for Sustainability
    Published Mar 29, 2021

    Per 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

    NIBE heat pump. https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=3OEIq%2fnQ&id=DA00F4523081AE02
    Published Feb 23, 2021

    One 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, 2019

    When 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, 2018

    The 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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  • Natural refrigerants in focus of the Gustav Lorentzen conference

    Published Aug 14, 2018

    The conference focusing on natural refrigerants was recently held in Valencia, Spain. An indication of the growing interest in natural refrigerants is that the conference attracted record numbers of p...

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  • Research focused on safe use of combustible refrigerants

    Published Jul 11, 2018
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  • Highlights from the conference on cold chain and refrigeration exhibition in China

    Published Apr 30, 2018

    We have recently attended the international conference ICCC2018 on cold chain and annual refrigeration exhibition CRH2018 in China. In this article we share the main impressions with focus on refriger...

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  • The effects of the F-Gas Regulation concern the heat pump industry

    Published Apr 30, 2018

    High GWP refrigerants are replaced by lower GWP alternatives on the European market. This is due to the reduced quotas (measured in CO2 equivalents), and increased demand (measured in kg). While the c...

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  • New F-gas regulation quota is in place. Are we on track to meet it?

    Published Feb 08, 2018

    The amount of the fluoridated gases, including synthetic refrigerants, should be significantly reduced during this year. This is requirement of the F-gas regulation that is known for years already. Wi...

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  • This happened in refrigerant development during the past year

    Published Feb 07, 2018

    The Swedish refrigeration industry is in a transition phase to new refrigerants and refrigeration systems. In this article we will highlight the most relevant events that occurred in 2017, which will ...

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  • F-gases: do we know what they are?

    Published Feb 07, 2018

    You are certainly aware of the so called F-gas regulation and its effect it already has on refrigeration industry. In this article we review which F-gases are regulated by the F-gas regulation. But fo...

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