International energy prize to KTH Professor
Professor emeritus Eric Granryd, Department of Energy Technology at KTH, has been awarded the Peter Ritter von Rittinger International Heat Pump Award. Professor Granryd accepted the medal at a ceremony held in Zurich on 21 May.
This medal is presented every three years by IEA, the International Energy Agency, to individuals who have made a valuable contribution to research into, and development of, efficient heat pumps.
The KTH Applied Thermodynamics and Refrigeration Division, initiated and built up by Eric Granryd at the beginning of the 1980s, is currently one of the world’s leading research institutions as concerns refrigeration and heat pump technology.
Peter Ritter von Rittinger was an Austrian engineer who constructed and, in 1855, installed the world’s first heat pump in the village of Ebensee in Austria.
Olle Blomqvist