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Energy Technology

Fundamental and applied research in energy technology is conducted within two areas at the Department of Applied Physics and Electronics - Energy efficiency in buildings and Energy conversion in thermochemical processes.

Energy technology concerns the supply, conversion, distribution, storage, and use of energy. Research questions within the field typically focus on resource and energy efficiency, operational availability, environmental impact, and sustainability. These are strongly connected to several of the global challenges described by the sustainable development goals, not least the development of renewable, efficient and sustainable supply and use of energy. In all these areas there are opportunities to improve existing technologies and find new solutions. The energy technology research conducted at the Department of Applied Physics and Electronics aims to develop new knowledge in the areas of Energy efficiency in buildings and Energy conversion in thermochemical processes.

The Energy efficiency research aims to improve the sustainability in the built environment, and the activities range from buildings’ embodied energy to operational energy use. The ongoing research investigates energy flows concerning construction supply chain, energy supply chain, energy utilization in buildings, occupants’ behavior, indoor thermal comfort, building information modeling, and AI for a digitalized and sustainable built environment. The research includes state-of-the-art monitoring and analytical techniques, which often involve working closely with various stakeholders.

The research in Energy conversion in thermochemical processes is focused on physical and chemical phenomena in high temperature energy conversion processes. The research spans various areas such as resource and process efficiency, fuel selection, operational availability, emission reduction, reactor design and material aspects. The systems studied range from small household appliances and to industrial scale power plants. This requires the use and development of novel modelling tools as well as experimental resources in terms of advanced diagnostic and analytical techniques. The research utilizes infrastructure available in-house or via collaborations, as well as advanced national and international research infrastructures.

Our team

Docents

Staffan Andersson
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Gireesh Nair
Associate professor
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Nils Skoglund
Associate professor
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Associate professors

Anders Åstrand
Associate professor
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Christoffer Boman
Associate professor
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Per Holmgren
Associate professor
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Gireesh Nair
Associate professor
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Ronny Östin
Other position
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Anna Strandberg
Associate professor
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Jimmy Vesterberg
Associate professor
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Lecturer

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Hongxia Zhou
Postdoctoral position
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Ph D Students

José Aguirre Castillo
Doctoral student
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Katarzyna Cwik
Doctoral student
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Sana Elbashir
Doctoral student
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Ange Sabine Ingabire
Research student
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Karin Sandström
Staff scientist
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Emil Thorin
Staff scientist
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Erik Viggh
Senior research engineer
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Amanda Vikström
Doctoral student (on leave)
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Research engineers

Markus Carlborg
Staff scientist
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Matias Eriksson
Adjunct associate professor
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Natxo Garcia Lopez
Doctoral student
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Charlie Ma
Staff scientist
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Anders Rebbling
Associate professor
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Our research groups

Anna Strandberg lab
The research is focusing on material characterization with X-ray tomography and other advanced techniques.
Applied Optics
Combustion diagnostics, exhaled breath gas analysis and chemical imaging.
Bio4Energy
The research environment Bio4Energy aims to create efficient and environmentally sound biorefinery processes
Energy Efficiency
The goal for this group is increasingly effective use of our limited resources required for sustainable development, both locally and globally.
Intelligent Human-Buildings Interaction Lab
Intelligent Human-Buildings Interactions lab (IHBI) at Department of Applied Physics and Electronics, Umeå University, aims to explore the...
Markus Broström lab
Inorganic products, materials and byproducts from industrial high temperature processes
Markus Carlborg lab
Material transformation in high temperature processes using materialography and structure identification.
Materials Engineering
Material development and characterization regarding composition and performance.
Nils Skoglund lab
Interaction of elements at high temperatures. Integrate resource recycling in a sustainable energy system.
Thermochemical Energy Conversion Laboratory (TEC-Lab)
The research area is within thermochemical energy conversion, mainly focusing on biomass but also on other solid and liquid fuels. The fundamental...
Research area: Energy engineering

Publications

ISEC 2024: 3rd International Sustainable Energy Conference
Fogelström, Frej; Danielski, Itai; Truong, Nguyen Le; et al.
ICCREM 2023: the human-centered construction transformation - proceedings of the international conference on construction and real estate management 2023, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 2023 : 592-604
Hu, Siying; Qiu, Shaowei; Feng, Kailun; et al.
SBE23-Thessaloniki: Sustainable built environments: Paving the way for achieving the targets of 2030 and beyond
Penaka, Santhan Reddy; Feng, Kailun; Rebbling, Anders; et al.
Journal of Building Engineering, Elsevier 2023, Vol. 64
Lu, Chujie; Li, Sihui; Gu, Junhua; et al.
Wikman, Tobias; Olofsson, Thomas; Nair, Gireesh
Energies, MDPI 2022, Vol. 15, (20)
Nair, Gireesh; Verde, Leo; Olofsson, Thomas
IEEE transactions on intelligent transportation systems (Print), IEEE 2022, Vol. 23, (12) : 23278-23294
Yan, Yongsheng; Bajaj, Ian; Rabiee, Ramtin; et al.
ESPC4 & PERM5 2022 – Book of Abstracts
Pérez, Carla; Boily, Jean-Francois; Jansson, Stina; et al.
Particle and Fibre Toxicology, BioMed Central (BMC) 2021, Vol. 18, (1)
Unosson, Jon; Kabele, Mikael; Boman, Christoffer; et al.
Energies, MDPI 2020, Vol. 13, (23)
Puttige, Anjan Rao; Andersson, Staffan; Östin, Ronny; et al.
Applied Sciences: APPS, Switzerland: MDPI 2019, Vol. 9, (7)
Cheng, Xiaogang; Yang, Bin; Tan, Kaige; et al.
Energy and Buildings, Elsevier 2019, Vol. 202
Yang, Bin; Melikov, A. K.; Kabanshi, A.; et al.
Building and Environment, Pergamon Press 2018, Vol. 143 : 1-14
Raj, Uday; Li, Ziqi; Ke, Ying; et al.
Sensors, MDPI 2018, Vol. 18, (2)
Cheng, Xiaogang; Yang, Bin; Liu, Guoqing; et al.
Sustainable cities and society, Vol. 39 : 215-224
Cheng, Xiaogang; Yang, Bin; Liu, Guoqing; et al.
Energy Procedia, Elsevier 2017, Vol. 132 : 994-999
Nair, Gireesh; Azizi, Shoaib; Olofsson, Thomas
Building and Environment, Elsevier 2017, Vol. 121 : 1-10
Cheng, Xiaogang; Yang, Bin; Olofsson, Thomas; et al.
Indoor + Built Environment, Sage Publications 2017, Vol. 26, (1) : 21-31
Yang, Bin; Olofsson, Thomas
2017 IEEE 37TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEMS (ICDCS 2017), IEEE Computer Society 2017 : 1836-1845
Goumas, Georgios; Nikas, Konstantinos; Lakew, Ewnetu Bayuh; et al.
Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Vol. 23, (8) : 8141-8159
Weidemann, Eva; Andersson, Patrik L.; Bidleman, Terry; et al.
International Research Conference for the Management & Business Disciplines, Las Vegas, NV, USA, March 24-26, 2016
Lindbergh, Lars; Olofsson, Thomas; Wilson, Timothy
Energy and Buildings, Vol. 122 : 185-191
Vesterberg, Jimmy; Andersson, Staffan; Olofsson, Thomas
Energy and Buildings, Vol. 117 : 83-90
Ohlsson, Anders K. E.; Östin, Ronny; Olofsson, Thomas
Allard, Ingrid; Olofsson, Thomas; Östin, Ronny
Healthy Buildings Europe 2015, May 18-20th 2015 – Eindhoven – The Netherlands
Yang, Bin; Olofsson, Thomas
Particle and Fibre Toxicology, Vol. 12
Muala, Ala; Rankin, Gregory; Sehlstedt, Maria; et al.
NSB 2014 10th Nordic Symposium on Building Physics 15-19 June 2014 Lund, Sweden: FULL PAPERS
Olofsson, Thomas; Allard, Ingrid
Umeå: Umeå universitet 2014
Vesterberg, Jimmy
European Aerosol Conference, EAC 2013. Prague, Czech Republic. September 1-6 2013
Nyström, Robin; Nordin, EZ; Blomberg, Anders; et al.
the 2nd International Conference on Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development (EESD 2012), February 27-29, 2012
Yang, Hua; Wan, Qianzhao; Yang, Bin; et al.
15TH NORDIC-BALTIC CONFERENCE ON BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING AND MEDICAL PHYSICS (NBC 2011), Aalborg: Springer 2011 : 21-24
Åstrand, Anders P.; Jalkanen, Ville; Andersson, Britt M.; et al.
The Open Construction and Building Technology Journal, Bentham Open 2011, Vol. 5 : 105-112
Nordwall, Ulf; Olofsson, Thomas
Crystal Growth & Design, American Chemical Society 2010, Vol. 10, (11) : 4847-4855
Alhalaweh, Amjad; George, Sumod; Boström, Dan; et al.
Journal of Optics, Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP) 2009, Vol. 12, (1)
Yu, Xia; Zhang, Ying; Pan, Shanshan; et al.
Zement, Kalk, Gips International: ZKG international, Gutersloh, Germany: Bauverlag BV 2008, Vol. 61, (7) : 60-70
Hökfors Wilhelmsson, Bodil; Viggh, Erik O.; Backman, Rainer
Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, International Union of Crystallography 2007, Vol. 63, (11) : o4281-
Lou, Benyong; Boström, Dan; Velaga, Sitaram P
Umeå: Handelshögskolan vid Umeå universitet 2007
Zhang, Ying; Wu, Hailun
Bengtsson, Åsa; Persson, Per; Shchukarev, Andrey; et al.
Energy and Buildings, Elsevier 1998, Vol. 28, (1) : 101-108
Olofsson, Thomas; Andersson, Staffan; Östin, Ronny
Wallner, Fredrik K.; Spjut, Sara; Boström, Dan; et al.
Kumar Wagri, Naresh; Carlborg, Markus; Eriksson, Matias; et al.

 

 

Latest update: 2022-02-16