Process and power
Process and Power
About Process and Power
Our specialist group works with power, processes, systems and components. We work with energy efficiency in all industrial processes, especially in the oil and gas, metal and food industry. The main activities are:
- Heating and cooling technology: Systems and components, energy analysis, process integration, refrigeration technology, heat pumping systems
- Hydro power
- Natural gas and multiphase transport, including low temperature processes (LNG)
- Natural gas technology
- Process integration and heat exchangers in industry: including metal industry, energy analyses
- Food engineering: dewatering and drying, cooling, freezing and thawing, fluidized systems
- Solar ovens
- Thermal power production
As a master or doctor degree student in our group, you become member of an international group with contacts all over the world, and can choose to specialize in several directions.
The Faculty of Engineering Science and Technology offer a PhD in Engineering where you can write a doctoral thesis connected to research and development carried out in our research group. The following master degree programmes has courses and projects related to our areas of research: Energy and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Sustainable Energy.
Selected projects
Current EU projects:
- CoolCern - CERN project (2019-2023) | Armin Hafner
- HCFC and high GWP HFCs in marine vessels project (2017-2018) | Armin Hafner
- HydroFlex - The goal of the project is to develop new technology permitting flexible operation of hydropower plants (2018-2022) | Ole Gunnar Dahlhaug
- MultiPACK - Demonstration of the next generation standardised integrated cooling and heating packages for commercial and public buildings based on environment-friendly carbon dioxide vapour compression cycles (2016-2019) | Armin Hafner
- TRI-HP - Trigeneration systems based on heat pumps with natural refrigerants and multiple renewable sources (2019-2023) | Armin Hafner
- UNET - University Network on PhD Programmes in Energy Technology (2021-2023 | Ole Jørgen Nydal
Current Norwegian research projects from the Research Council of Norway (NFR) and the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation:
- Action - Advanced Compressor Technology in Operation (2016-2018) | Lars Eirik Bakken
- Clean Tex project (2018-2021) | Trygve Eikevik
- COMPACTS - Compact Offshore Steam Bottoming Cycles (2015-2019) | Erling Næss
- Complete project (2017-2019) | Kristian M. Lien
- COPRO - Competitive power production from industrial surplus heat (2016-2020) | Lars O. Nord
- DeepGeo (2017-2020) | Erling Næss
- Dynamic analysis of wet gas compression systems (2015-2019) | Lars Eirik Bakken
- EDemoTeC - Enabling technology for the Development of moving bed Temperature swing adsorption process for post combustion CO2 capture (2017-2020) | Lars O. Nord
- Electrification and efficient energy supply of offshore oil platforms (2016-2018) | Lars O. Nord
- EnPe - Capacity Building in Renewable Energy, Education and Research (2014-2019) | Ole J. Nydal
- EnPe - MSc in Oil and Gas Technology | Ole J. Nydal
- HeliX-Tanks (2017-2020) | Trygve Eikevik
- HES-Off project (2018-2022) | Lars O. Nord
- Infastruktur HighEFF lab (2017-2027) | Trygve Eikevik
- KPN SuperSmartRack project (2016-2018) | Armin Hafner
- Mulige ENØK-tiltak Hitra Kommune (2018-2019) | Armin Hafner
- Ormel2 project (2018-2021) | Trygve Eikevik
- ReFood project (2017-2019) | Trygve Eikevik
- SIU - Sustainable energy in food production (2016-2019) | Trygve Eikevik
Selected research
Centres and initiatives
We contribute to the following centres and initiatives:
- EERA JP Hydropower
- HighEFF - Centre for an Energy Efficient and Competitive Industry for the future (2017-2024)
- RenewHydro - Norwegian Research centre for Renewal of Hydropower Technology (2025-2033)
- KIFEE - Kyoto International Forum for Environment and Agency
- LowEmission Research Centre (2019-2027)
Laboratories
- Dewatering Engineering lab | Trygve Eikevik
- Heat engineering | Erling Næss
- Heat-to-Power lab | Lars O. Nord
- HighEFF lab
- Refrigeration Engineering lab | Trygve Eikevik
- Separation and Heat Transfer lab
- Solar Simulator lab | Ole Jørgen Nydal
- Thermal two-phase flow lab
- Waterpower Laboratory | Torbjørn Kristian Nielsen
- Wet Gas Compressor and Multiphase Lab | Lars Eirik Bakken
PhD in Engineering
The Faculty of Engineering Science and Technology offer a PhD in Engineering where you can write a doctoral thesis connected to research and development carried out in our research group. Available PhD positions are posted on the NTNU vacancies page and JobbNorge.
All people - Process and Power
Partners
Research and business partners associated with the research group of Process and Power:
Research partners
- SINTEF
- Shanghai Jiao-Tong University
- Doshisha University, Japan
- IIT Kharagpur & Madras, India
- Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development
- University of Naples Federico II, Italy
- Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne
Business partners
- Alfa Laval
- Compania Industrial de Aplicaciones Termicas SA
- Danfoss Commercial Compressors, Denmark
- Enex SRL, Italy
- Equinor, Norway
- European Heat Pump Association
- GDF Suez
- Lundin Norway AS
- Marine Aluminium
- Mayekawa, Japan
- Officine Mario Dorin Spa, Italy
- Lu-Ve Spa, Italy