EPT Day 2024

EPT Day 2024 on Tuesday 19th November is a one-day seminar on future-focused research, education and career paths at the Department of Energy and Process Engineering (EPT), NTNU. As a former student / employee you will receive an invitation if you are a member of NTNU alumni. EPT employees and students will receive a personal invitation. 

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• When: 19th November, 09.00-15.00 
• Where: KJ2 Kjelhuset, Gløshaugen, NTNU
• For: All, with a special invitation to students, alumni, industry and employees
• Cost: Free
• Lunch is served to pre-registered guests (first come, first served)

PROGRAM

08.45 – 09.00 Registration

09:00 – 11.10 Future-focused research at EPT

09:00-10:05

• Welcome and intro: How is EPT contributing to the green transition by Terese Løvås (chair), Professor and Head of Department
• Challenge of Ferrofluid Hydrogen Production for Space Engineering by Yuhiro Iwamoto, Associate Professor at Nagoya Institute of Technology in Japan 
• Hydrogen under pressure by James R. Dawson, Professor
• How to spend the next trillion dollars to fight climate change by Thomas Alan Adams II, Professor

10.05 - 10.20 Break

10.20 –11.10

• Introduction by Francesca Verones (chair), Professor
• Smart control for energy flexible buildings by Laurent Georges, Associate Professor 
• Exploring the Potential of Terrestrial and Oceanic Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) Using Earth System Models by Anusha Sathyanadh, Postdoctoral Fellow
• Dancing plastics in the ocean: how we planned for the EU Science Fair in Brussel by Yi Hui Tee, Postdoctoral Fellow

11.10-12 Lunch 

12 – 12.50 Lab tour

• Waterpower lab by Erik Langørgen, Senior Engineer
• Fluid Mechanics (wind tunnel and water channel) by Srikar Yadala V, Researcher
• Thermal Energy Lab 1: Cooling and heating (heat pump processes) by Ignat Tolstorebrov, Ass. Professor
• Thermal Energy Lab 2: Batteries by Steven Boles, Professor
• Thermal Energy Lab 3: Indoor environment and climate control of buildings (including C02 heat pumps for building heating and the operating room of the future) by Laurent Georges, Professor
• Thermal Energy Lab 4: Combustion and carbon-free fuels (ammonia, hydrogen) by Håkon Tormodsen Nygård, Researcher

12.50-13.00 Break

13 – 15.00 Green career paths, stories from EPT alumni 

13.00 – 13.50 

• Welcome and intro: Student life and work life at EPT by Ignat Tolstorebrov (chair), Ass. Professor
• From theory to rocket launch at Propulse NTNU by Joachim Schmidt, Student, NTNU Propulse
• What EPT taugth us and what we plan to do with it by Marte Vestvik, and Eline Klevjer, Students
• Gender Equality at EPT - the story of EPT Women in Science by Francesca Verones, Professor

Break 13.42 – 14.00

14.00-14.50

• Welcome and introduction: PhD study after EPT by Bjørn Austbø, Ass. Professor
• Carbon capture and storage (CCS): from research to large scale projects by Anna Knutsen, Equinor
• Green HVAC: Hybrid Ventilation Systems for Reduced Lifetime Emissions in Cold Climates (video) by Mehrdad Rabani, Associate Professor OsloMet and Indoor Climate and Energy Consultant at MultiConsult
• Life in academia after EPT (video) by Shareq Nazir, Ass. Professor, KTH

Summing up by Terese Løvås, Professor and Head of Department

Welcome!

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