It all started as an invention within a master’s thesis at KTH and was the beginning of what later became the Division of Applied Thermodynamics and Refrigeration – today part of the Department of Ene...
KTH students have designed a smarter and more sustainable Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. Team Nyarugenge 3 came through as a winner in the annual competition.
Studying Energy Technology can be great fun! That is exactly what around 170 first-year students in the Mechanical Engineering programme experienced in May 2025, when they gathered to compete in the S...
KTH Royal Institute of Technology is currently hosting Associate Professor Massimo Cimmino, from Polytechnique Montréal (Canada), during his academic sabbatical. Prof. Cimmino is well known for his co...
IEA HPT Annex 64 concerns Safety when using flammable refrigerants like propane or isobutane. This is a hot topic as the synthetic HFC fluids mainly used today must be phased out as they are strong gr...
After nearly three decades of service, Peter Hill is stepping down from his role as Lab Responsible - leaving behind a legacy of technical expertise and collaboration.
Professor Björn Palm and Department Head Björn Laumert held the initial speech for the Polish energy actors.
Inspiring Polish energy actors
23 May 2025
On 22 May a group of highly ranked visitors from the Polish Energy sector visited the Department of Energy Technology at KTH. District heating and gas turbines without fossil fuels was on the agenda a...
We 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 ...
The 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.
We 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.
Hatef 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...
A 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...
This 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...
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...
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...
"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.
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
"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. ...
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...
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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