Requirements for exchange students
To be accepted for the 5th (Fall) or 6th (Spring) semester, you must have passed 2 years of a relevant Bachelor's programme.
The skills you require
The efficient use of waste heat and utilisation of low temperature heat reservoirs through heat pumps is required to balance the increasing intermittent power production from for instance wind and solar power. Heat storage at low or high temperature serves as a cost efficient way of storing surplus electricity. Furthermore, the technologies enable us to match the future heat demand in case of urban densification and introduction of low energy buildings.
The efficient use of the limited biomass resources is another area where thermal energy systems will play a major role. The proper heat integration of for instance power-to-fuel-systems or systems intended to produce renewable chemicals through electrolysis and biomass, is a requirement.
Several industrial processes involve thermal conversion technologies. We need advanced heat integration technologies in order to save energy in these processes.
There is a need for thermal energy engineers experienced in:
- Environmentally friendly heating, cooling and refrigeration systems
- Integrating renewable energy sources like wind and solar energy with thermal storages and the required complex thermal conversion technologies
- Developing energy efficient and heat integrated power-to-fuel or power-to-x systems
- Identifying and realizing energy savings in industrial thermal conversion processes
- Maintaining Denmark’s leading position within the area of thermal energy systems where we currently have a world-leading position in industry and a unique knowledge
5th semester: Design of energy systems
The semester should give students competencies within the numerical modeling and optimisation of thermal systems operated in steady state mode. The system to be modelled can include any kind of thermal multi-component system or thermal cycle. This could be a power plant, an industrial energy system, a chemical processing plant etc.
Project examples:
- Modelling and optimisation of hybrid low energy air-conditioning systems
- Analysis, modelling, and optimisation of a combined heat and power plants
- Optimisation of the utilisation of exhaust gas from ships in organic Rankine cycles
- Modelling and heat integration of electrolysis based power to fuel production systems
- Modelling of complex fuel cell systems
5th Semester Modules
6th semester: Thermo mechanical energy systems
The 6th semester is also the semester, where the students write their Bachelor of Science (BSc) Thesis. The objective of this semester is to provide knowledge about the construction of flow machines and components used in thermal energy systems. As a result of overall analysis, limitations due to the dynamic interactions on these systems are to be outlined. Environmental issues in relation to the thermal systems are to be considered. A typical project on this semester will also include experimental test to verify mathematical models.
Project examples:
- Design, modelling and test of a vertical axis wind turbine
- Investigation of clogging in wastewater pumps in part load
- PIV analysis of the flow field around the tongue in a wastewater pump
- Modelling and experimental investigations of gasturbines
- Design and optimisation of impellers for centrifugal pumps
- Development and test of advanced propellers for drones
6th Semester Modules
Continue on a master of science (MSc) programme
The Bachelor of Science (BSc) programme in Energy Engineering with specialisation in Thermal Energy Engineering gives access to the following MSc specialisations in Energy Engineering (Aalborg) and Sustainable Energy Engineering (Esbjerg):