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  • Laumert new director at Centrum för Ny Energiteknik (CNETO)

    Björn Laumert in KTH Library
    Published Apr 27, 2023

    Björn 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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  • 3D printed parts in space no "rocket science"

    Rocketship launch at European Space Agency.
    Photo: © ESA
    Published Mar 15, 2023

    The 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

    Two men standing at a large concentrated solar power plant, with mirrors surrounding them.
    Where the radiation is good it might be suitable to capture heat from the sun is by mirrors angled so that they redirect the light to a point in a tower. The tower gets very hot and fluid takes up and storage the heat that is later used to drive a CO2 turbine. Salvatore Guccione and Rafael Guedez visited this tower in Spain.
    Published Feb 15, 2023

    Many 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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  • A summer event at EGI – in real life

    Brännboll players
    A brännboll session at Uggleviksparken where both faculty and students participated.
    Published Jun 20, 2022

    After 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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  • An EleFanT in the air

    Portrait of Nenad Glodic
    Researcher Nenad Glodic. Photo: Anna Gullers
    Published Feb 02, 2022

    In the near future, the first commercial electric aircraft will take off from our airports. Maybe they will be driven by an electric fan instead of the conventional propeller – at least if the researc...

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  • KTH develops the future aircraft engine

    Flygplan
    Foto: Artturi Jalli på Unsplash
    Published Aug 23, 2021

    KTH participates in a project that develops the future aircraft engine. "H2Jet" has received SEK 15 million from the Swedish Energy Agency to develop critical components for hydrogen propulsion with g...

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  • Average and Marginal CO2eq emission factors

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    Published Feb 22, 2021

    On Friday the 4th, a seminar/discussion about Marginal and Average CO2 eq emission factors took place online. It had been organized by EGI PhD students to try to get a better understanding of this top...

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