PhD candidate Ailo Aasen was awarded the prize for best poster at the conference, Thermodynamics 2017, in Edinburgh, Scotland. This is impressive, as he started his PhD only eight months ago! In the poster, he presented some of our ongoing work to unravel the curvature dependence of the surface tension for multicomponent mixtures. He presented, for the first …
My thesis entitled Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium thermodynamics of planar and curved interfaces, has just been awarded with two prestigious international awards! The European Federation of Chemical Engineers (EFCE) awarded the thesis with the EFCE excellence prize in thermodynamics for 2017. The thesis was evaluated in terms of dissemination of knowledge, quality of publications and presentations, duration …
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Elisa Magnanelli, whom I have served as a co-supervised for together with Prof. Signe Kjelstrup (main supervisor) and Eivind Johannessen (co-supervisor), successfully defended her PhD entitled “Understanding and Reducing the Entropy Production in Membrane Systems”. The purpose of her thesis work was to understand how energy is dissipated in various systems, in order to find …
Our application for center of excellence, Porous Media Laboratory, was granted by the Norwegian Research Council!! The topic is fundamental knowledge on flow through porous media. Progress in the center will contribute to safer and more efficient extraction of oil and injection of carbon dioxide in subsea reservoirs, improved understanding of fuel-cells and catalyst materials and …
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Our paper entitled: Thermodynamic modeling with equations of state: present challenges with established methods has been accepted for publication in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. In the work, we review present challenges associated with established models, and give suggestions on how to overcome them in the future. The most accurate EoS available, multiparameter EoS, have a second …
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Our paper entitled: Thermodynamic models to accurately describe the PVTxy-behavior of water / carbon dioxide mixtures has been accepted for publication in Fluid Phase Equilibria. In the work, we present a comprehensive comparison of thermodynamic models for describing their PVTxy behavior, i.e. densities and phase compositions of mixtures with water and carbon dioxide. The most accurate experimental …
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Our paper entitled: Harnessing thermoelectric power from transient heat sources: Waste heat recovery from silicon production has been accepted for publication in Energy conversion and management. In the work, we investigate the response of a bismuth-telluride based TEG to the transient environment of a silicon production plant, where there is a periodic change in the average temperature …
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Ailo Aasen has started his PhD in the group. He has a solid background in mathematics (Msc. degree). In addition, he has more than two years of experience with thermodynamic modelling from his work at SINTEF Energy Research. He was awarded with the “Stubban Prize” in 2014 for promising young mathematicians. The aim of his …