PhD Program in Process, Energy and Automation Engineering
DURATION
6 Semesters
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
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STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
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Introduction
About the programme
The aim of the PhD programme is to educate candidates with knowledge and skills that make them competent to improve production processes and reduce environmental impacts of such processes. This may be achieved through new or modified equipment and procedures, and through improved process control. The ultimate goal is to increase the industrial sustainability.
The successful candidate will typically find employment in companies, universities or research institutes working on design, operation, control and measurements of industrial processes.
Research groups
PhD students enrolled in the program are involved in one of the following research groups:
- Energy and CO2 capture (ECC)
- Hydro Power, Transmission and Distribution
- Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technologies (SMART)
- Telemark Modeling and Control Centre (TMCC)
- Telemark Process Safety, Combustion and Explosion Laboratory (TPSCEL)
Examples of research areas are (in alphabetic order):
- Alternative fuels
- Catalysis
- Biogas production
- Chemometrics
- CO2 capture
- Gasification
- High-voltage power systems
- Hydrogen safety
- Hydro power
- Multiphase flow processes
- Process control
- Sensor technology
- Smart houses
The faculty research groups cooperate with many international partners, mainly through joint research projects.