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Efficient heat exchanger ready for testing
Published Jun 07, 2023A 3D-printed heat exchanger in aluminum filled with phase change material – that is what Professor Viktoria Martin and colleagues from KTH have experimented within a laboratory environment. The result...
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Björn Palm receives prestigious medal
Published May 10, 2023By being ahead of his time he and his research team have contributed to reshaping an entire industry. For that, Björn Palm, professor at the Department of Energy Technology, receives the Medal of Scie...
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Laumert new director at Centrum för Ny Energiteknik (CNETO)
Published Apr 27, 2023Björn Laumert, head of the Department of Energy Technology, is new director at the Centrum för Ny Energiteknik (CNETO) in Oskarshamn. CNETO is a collaboration platform between the public sector, acade...
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KTH researcher is a lead author in the GEO-7 report
Published Mar 23, 2023In March 2023, hundreds of environmental experts gathered in Bangkok, Thailand, for the first authors' meeting of the Seventh Edition of the Global Environment Outlook (GEO-7) of the UN Environment Pr...
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Interdisciplinary PhD school discussed sustainable energy transitions
Published Mar 17, 2023Frauke Urban (INDEK) and Saman Nimali Gunasekara (EGI) organised a PhD Winter School on “Sustainable Energy Transitions – Technology and Management Perspectives” on 13 – 15 March 2023 at KTH.
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KTH researchers supporting hydrocarbons as refrigerants in heat pumps
Published Mar 16, 2023KTH researchers take the lead on Position Paper supporting hydrocarbons as refrigerants in heat pumps
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3D printed parts in space no "rocket science"
Published Mar 15, 2023The competitive space industry is now into recycling and cost hunting. By reusing rocket engines and 3D print engine parts cost can be lowered, but how will the 3D parts affect the engines? Researcher...
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KTH improves power generation
Published Feb 15, 2023Many of today's power plants are powered by turbines run by steam. In recent years, turbines driven by a special form of CO2 show exciting potential. There is still research needed to make the technol...
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Replacing wood and charcoal stoves in Africa could save half a million lives every year
Published Jan 12, 2023Half a million lives could be saved each year in sub-Saharan Africa by taking action to reduce reliance on traditional wood- and charcoal-burning stoves, a new study shows.
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ScAIEM Winter School
Published Dec 14, 2022The ScAIEM Winter School “Sustainable Energy Transitions – Technology and Management Perspectives” (5 ECTS) is an interdisciplinary PhD course package that offers doctoral students a training in innov...
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They won the Ebbe Lyths scholarship 2022
Published Dec 13, 2022Two students at the Energy Technology department, Julia Almebäck and Rebecka Magnius, have received a scholarship from Kylbranschens samarbetsstiftelse for their MSc thesis work.
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Sri Lankan partners visit at EGI
Published Oct 25, 2022During the first week of October the Sri Lankan university partners in the EUSL project were visiting KTH. The Department of Energy Technology offered the long distance guests a packed program.
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KTH provides Valencia with sustainable energy plan
Published Sep 29, 2022Bio waste that generates biogas for public transport was one of the suggestions from the winning team that charmed the jury when master students from EGI competed about best proposal for a sustainable...
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A “power bank” for renewables
Published Sep 28, 2022Imagine a factory with a giant "power bank" charged with renewable energy when the availability is good and electricity prices low. To be discharged as heat when sun and wind are scarce and prices hig...
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Trust is essential to this year’s ‘Supervisor of the Year’
Published Aug 19, 2022This year’s ‘Supervisor of the Year 2021/2022’ award goes to Rafael Eduardo Guedez Mata, a researcher at the EKV Heat and Power Technology division at the ITM School. This is the second year the Ph.D....
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A summer event at EGI – in real life
Published Jun 20, 2022After two years of pandemic and Zoom happenings, the Sustainable Energy Engineering program was finally able to make the SEE summer event a reality. On June 3, the master students could enjoy brännb...
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Energy research helps boost heat pumps in the U.S.
Published Jun 07, 2022Researcher Nelson Sommerfeldt is spreading the impact of Swedish energy research. With the U.S. University Michigan Tech, KTH now helps decarbonize home heating on a new continent.
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Refreshing visit from a bold new French master program at EGI
Published Apr 04, 2022More than 30 students and program directors of the Master program in Energy Transition Management (ETM) , which is jointly offered by Emlyon Business school (among the top 5 of Business schools in Fra...
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We know what we should be doing to solve the climate crisis, why are we not doing it?
Published Apr 04, 2022Today, April 4, IPCC Working Group III has released its long-awaited Sixth Assessment Report. The report urges for system-level climate action and focuses on the transformative changes needed to achie...
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