Thermal Systems and Heat Transfer Lab
The Thermal Systems and Heat Transfer Laboratory focuses on a wide range of activities related to heat transfer components and thermal system performance, with particular emphasis on real-world applications and innovative engineering solutions.
The lab is equipped with facilities capable of supporting both small- and large-scale experimental projects.
Available equipment:
- A segmented gasketed plate heat exchanger test rig designed for high-resolution experimental analysis of local boiling heat transfer with low-global warming potential refrigerants.
- A Booster heat pump test rig designed to evaluate the performance of drop-in zeotropic refrigerant mixtures under ultra-low temperature district heating conditions.
- A custom-built CO₂-based transcritical air-to-air heat pump dryer with integrated heat recovery and IoT-enabled control, designed for energy-efficient food drying applications.
- A custom-built test rig integrated compression-condensation and refrigerant injection for a novel vapor compression heat pump cycle, to evaluate the effect on outlet temperature and system performance.
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An ionic liquid piston compressor integrating custom pneumatic-hydraulic systems for high-pressure gas compression up to 300 bar, designed to investigate heat transfer phenomena within the compression chamber and evaluate system performance and efficiency.
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Fredrik Haglind Professor Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering fhag@dtu.dk
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Wiebke Meesenburg Assistant Professor Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering wmeese@dtu.dk
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Jonas Kjær Jensen Associate Professor Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering jkjje@dtu.dk
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Nasrin Arjomand Kermani Senior Researcher Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering nasker@dtu.dk