Education

Developing knowledge and expertise at various levels is a main objective and major task in HighEFF. The focus is on energy efficiency in industrial processes, and the education activity takes place at different levels: Master students having theses related to HighEFF; PhDs and Postdocs with research and publications related to energy efficiency in industry; and employees from user partners taking tailormade intensive courses to become energy efficiency experts in their companies.

Selected PhDs completed in 2022

Industrial energy transition: Optimization-based framework for sustainable design of utility systems

Industrial surplus heat-to-power conversion – opportunities and challenges

Energy efficiency-ing. How an energy-efficient world is produced through practices, objects, rhetoric, and politics

Performance Improvements of Standalone Liquid Air Energy Storage

Development of cold thermal energy storage for industrial applications

Selected PhDs completed in 2021

Investigation of Hydrocarbon Two- phase Flow for Charge Reduction in Heat Exchangers

Mathematical Modelling & Optimisation of Heat Exchanger Design

Robust Model Predictive Control in Energy Systems: Dealing with Uncertainty

Integrated CO₂ Heat Pumping Systems for Hotels

Designing Robust Energy Systems Under Uncertainty

Automated Design of Turbomachinery Components

Selected PhDs from 2020

She completed her PhD with HighEFF – Now she’s using the results in new projects

Trine Larssen was one of the first HighEFF research fellows to defend a PhD on December 17th, 2020, with her topic related to more environmental metal production.

Reusing waste heat: a practical example

Martin Grimstad, a 26 year old process engineer,got to experiment with waste heat reuse in a veryhands-on way at the Alcoa aluminium smelter inMosjøen.