Green Science/Chemistry, USA

Executive summary:

This project will explore, create, and advance opportunities for more efficient and Karen Millen Colourblock environmental friendly energy systems. Research is divided into three main areas: 1) national / regional energy systems, 2) industrial energy systems and 3) building energy systems. These systems will comprehensively address issues from extraction, conversion, distribution to final usage. Results will help to align the EU’s energy industry with stated environmental targets.

Background:

  • Energy demand is rising internationally in both developed and developing countries.
  • Due to climate change and prospective resource depletion, long-term goals of significant reductions of fossil fuel-based energy use and resultant greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is widely recognized in the world.
  • The built environment, industries and transportation are sectors responsible for about one-third of the usage of world energy, respectively. Thus to tackle the problems of energy supply, energy usage and climate change it is necessary to be proactive and implement measures in all the above-mentioned sectors.

Purpose of Study: Explore the linkages between energy use and energy supply in all sectors of society as an essential prerequisite for a sustainable society.

Implications for Managers: The European Union has significant environmental and social ambitions stemming from energy and climate issues. When better methods for energy use and energy supply are identified, this ambition will be closer to reality. This project is connecting industry, and both public and private sector parties as a means to enhance knowledge sharing.
Implications for Researchers: For the researcher the research competence basis at the Division of Energy Systems provides knowledge in the following areas:

  • Customer energy systems analysis: Reducing energy costs and analyzing temporal patterns
  • Customer solutions: communicated load management, demand-side management in a systems perspective and the proactive end user
  • Local, regional (and larger) energy systems analysis and cooperation between end users (industry and building) and energy suppliers
  • Influence of deregulated energy markets on demand-side management and local generation
  • Influence of rules and regulations as well as policy issues on end users and energy suppliers
  • Local distribution, generation and end use; business perspectives, customer behavior in a “small scale” system, communication perspectives and environmental perspectives.
  • System-related issues: Energy users as alternative energy Karen Millen Floral suppliers through their own generation capacity or through their capability to reduce energy demand, competition between generation and energy end use measures.

Methods: The research is divided in three areas; national/regional energy systems, industrial energy systems and building energy systems. Issues addressed cover the entire field of extraction, conversion and distribution to final use of energy. To analyze complex issues system analysis, mathematical, numerical methods, optimization, and detailed measurements are utilized.

Contact:
Chairman of Division of Energy Systems Prof Bahram Moshfegh
[email protected], +46 13 28 11 58 and PhD Louise Trygg, [email protected], +46 13 28 44 91

Contributors: Energy companies, Large, medium size enterprises, Building companies, Private and Public sectors,

Publications:
Maria Danestig (2009) “Efficient heat supply and use from an energy-system and climate perspective”. LiU, Dissertations No 1242, 2009 ISBN/ISSN 9789173936941

Daniel Rundström (2008) “Numerical investigation of the turbulent flow and heat transfer around a heated cube cooled by and impinging jet in a cross-flow”. LiU. Disserations No 1227, 2008, ISBN/ISSN 9789173937405

Patrik Rohdin (2008) ” Energy efficiency and ventilation in Swedish industries”. LiU. Dissertations No 1223, 2008, ISBN/ISSN 9789173937672

Patrik Thollander (2008) “Towards increased energy efficiency in Swedish industry : barriers, driving forces & policies”. LiU, Dissertations No 1214, 2008, ISBN/ISSN 9789173937931

Sofia Klugman (2008) “Energy systems analysis of Swedish pulp and paper industries from a regional cooperation perspective: Case study modeling and optimization”. LIU, Dissertations No. 1194, 2008, ISBN/ISSN 9789173938747

Anna Wolf (2007) “Industrial symbiosis in the Swedish forest industry”. LIU, Dissertation No. 1065, 2006, ISBN 978-91-85895-86-1, ISSN 0345-7524

Fredrik Karlsson (2006) “Multi-dimensional approach used for energy and indoor climate evaluation applied to a low-energy building”. LIU, Dissertation No. 1065, 2006, ISBN 91-85643-21-1, ISSN 0345-7524

Kristina Holmgren (2006) “A system perspective on disctrict heating and waste incineration”. LIU, Dissertation No. 1053, 2006, ISBN 91-85643-61-0, ISSN 0345-752422)

Louise Trygg (2006) “Swedish industrial and energy supply measures in a European system perspective”. LIU, Dissertation No. 1049, 2006, ISBN 91-85643-70-X, ISSN 0345-7524

Peter Sandberg (2004) “Optimisation and co-operative perspectives on industrial energy systems”. LIU, Dissertation No. 913, 2004, ISBN 91-85295-95-7, ISSN 0345-7524

Gong, Mei (2004) “Using Exergy and Optimization Models to Improve Industrial Energy Systems Towards Sustainability”. LIU, Dissertation No. 868, 2004, ISBN 91-7373-933-2, ISSN 0345-7524

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