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From the 1st of August 2021, I start to work full time as a Professor at the Department of Chemistry at NTNU. The position is within equilibrium and non-equilibrium thermodynamics, and was formally announced more than one year ago. There were many excellent ...

The EFCE Excellence award in Thermodynamics and Transport properties is awarded every second year to an excellent PhD thesis. In 2021, it was awarded to my former PhD student and present collaborator, Dr. Ailo Aasen. The judging committee of EFCE’s Thermodynamics and Transport Properties ...

The paper entitled Theory and simulation of shock waves: Entropy production and energy conversion has been published in Phys. Rev. E. In the paper, we have investigated shock waves by use of nonequilibrium thermodynamics and nonequilibrium molecular dynamics (NEMD) simulations. We have also considered ...

The paper entitled Chemical Potential Differences in the Macroscopic Limit from Fluctuations in Small Systems has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. The paper is the first in the PhD of Vilde Bråten, and written also together with Ass. ...

The paper entitled A combined fluid-dynamic and thermodynamic model to predict the onset of rapid phase transitions in LNG spills has just been accepted for publication in the Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries. Transport of liquefied natural gas (LNG) by ship ...

Magnus Aa. Gjennestad successfully defends his PhD Tuesday, the 24th of November, Magnus Aashammer Gjennestad successfully defends his PhD, entitled: “Modelling of two-phase equilibrium, stability and steady-state flow in porous media”. The opponents of the defence were Prof. Professor Rainer Helmig from the Universität ...

The paper entitled Dissecting the exergy balance of a hydrogen liquefier: Analysis of a scaled-up claude hydrogen liquefier with mixed refrigerant pre-cooling has just been accepted for publication in International Journal of Hydrogen energy. In the paper, we analyze in detail a hydrogen liquefier ...

Vilde Bråten (PhD candidate) placed second in the national finale in the Norwegian Research Grand Prix, where researchers from universities all over the country presented their research in a way where it becomes possible to understand for the general population. Vilde did an ...

Our paper entitled The influence of interfacial transfer and film coupling in the modeling of distillation columns to separate nitrogen and oxygen mixtures has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Chemical Engineering Science X (the open access version of J. Chem. Eng. ...