Biofuels and decision support a winner at KTH

SEK 12.8 million This is how much Gustav Amberg will receive for the research project "Energy Conversion of mixtures of biofuels and conventional fuels - Atomization, vaporization, mixing and combustion."

He is thereby the KTH researcher who has received the most money in this year's major call from the Research Council.

According to Gustav Amberg, Professor of fluid mechanics at KTH, his project is about energy-related basic research which at this stage will not be producing a practical solution. The fundamental question is how the current use of diesel will be replaced by biofuels such as rapeseed oil.

“Biofuel is a much more complex fuel than diesel, and it should be possible to use whatever you come over. Biofuels can therefore be of different quality and viscosity. It makes demands on the fuel, from the time it is placed in the fuel tank to the moment it becomes a gas which must be ignited in the engine. The research deals with, among other things, the liquid's viscosity, and how the droplets behave and work," says Gustav Amberg.

Another KTH researcher, James Nordström, belongs to the group that will be receiving the most money. SEK 5.5 million has been received for the research project "To decide blindly: when and how is it possible to safely describe data that we have not even had time to see".

Other exciting research projects that arouse curiosity and which are receiving research funding is Ramon Wyss’s "Theoretical models of exotic nuclei" (SEK 1.2 million), Gunnar Karlsson's "opportunistic mobile communication" (SEK 2.4 million) and György Dán’s "The price of selfishness in networked systems” (SEK 2.4 million).

For more information, contact Gustav Amberg at 08-790 75 34 or gustava@mech.kth.se.

Peter Larsson