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PT & EET online master programmes – startup 2018:

Information about departement of Process,

Energy and Environmental Technology (PEM)

Increased competence New options

About USN

• HSN established Jan 1, 2016, in a merger between Telemark UniversityCollege and Buskerud and Vestfold University College

• Full university May 2018 USN

• Serves a region with 700 000 inhabitants

Key figures USN

Organization

Technology, natural sciences and maritime sciences

Technology programmes in Porsgrunn

Civil, Mechanical, Chemical, Power, Automation

Process

Technology

(PT)

Energy and

Environ-

mental

Technology

(EET)

Industrial

IT and

Automation

(IIA)

PhD

(3 yr)

Master

(2 yr)

Bachelor

(3 yr)

Process, Energy and

Automation Engineering

Qualifying programmes

Electrical

Power

Engineering

(EPE)

IIA, PT and EET are offered as online and campus programmes

Sustainable production- Low carbon footprint- Energy optimization- etc.

Low carbon economy- Energy systems- Closed material loops- etc.

PhD programme Process, Energy and Automation Engineering

Energy and CO2 Capture

- CO2 capture

- Alternative Fuels

- EnvironmentalBiotechnology

- Industrial Flow Processes

- Powder Science and Technology

- Applied Catalysis

Process Safety, Combustion and

Explosions

Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technologies

Hydro Power, Transmission and

DistributionTelemark Modelling and

Control Center

- Industrial Applications of Electromagnetics

- Industrial Automation Applications

- Industrial Automation Methods

Aqua-USNCommunity Health Care Services to Older People

2015PhD students: 38, Post Docs: 4

Academic staff: 27 (Prof, Assoc. Prof, Adj. Prof)

Norwegian Centre for Sustainable Bio-based Fuels and Energy

bio4fuels@nmbu.no

8/9/2018 EET3210 Energy Technology - Week 34 11

Process and energy technology onshore and offshore

TNM-PEM strategy

PEM research: 25 years of R&D, advanced labs, strong groups on modelling and simulations, close contact with SINTEF Tel-Tek (research institute)Strategy: Sustainable technology, close cooperation with the regional industry

Water treatment / Bio gas / Bio energy

Acid gas treating / CO2 capture

Gas explosions and technical safety

PEM R&D examples

Hydrogen Safety:

High speed film

5000 frames/sec

Environmental biotechnology

Process safety, combustion & explosions

Acid gas treating

CO2 capture and reduction from cement kilns – examples

~20 MW waste heat available

ARW can replace ammonia water

for de-NOx

Partnership agreement with Norcem

Benchmarking of CO2 capture technologies

CO2 activities at USN-TNM-PEMCO2-lab: Part of the R&D group «Energy

and Carbon Capture»

15 scientists

6 engineers

4 PhD students working on CO2

Close cooperation with Tel-Tek (SINTEF)

8 PhD dissertations

90 journal papers published

Several books and patents

Some CO2 projects:

• Mass transfer kinetics of carbon dioxide into concentrated aqueous solution of

monoethanolamine

• Minimization of absorbent degradation in CO2 absorption/desorption

• Removal of CO2 from exhaust gas

• CO2 Capture from Power Stations and Industry

• Fully Integrated Regenerative Calcium Cycling (FIRCC)

• Cutting Cost of CO2 Capture in Process Industy (Co2stCap)

Basis for implementation of full-scale CO2 capture in Norway:

- CO2 Capture Test Facility at Norcem Brevik, Project phase II Test Step 1 - Work

package: Benchmark Analysis, Work Package: Technology support

- Feasibility studies on fullscale CO2 capture in Norway: Norcem (Brevik), Yara

(Porsgrunn), Klemetsrud (Oslo)

- Concept studies for full-scale plants started by the Norwegian government in 2017;

investment decision gate in 2019, startup in 2022