There are many different elements to the heat transition, ranging from understanding and insight in to the heat resources, smart availability of heat throughout different seasons, related heat storage and conversion, heat distribution networks and concepts, to the social acceptance for any subsurface exploitation activity.
At UT, we focus on several key points
- Heat conversion & storage: Fundamental and applied investigations into multiphase transport phenomena spanning various length scales. Applied research specifically targets the utilization of thermal and thermochemical energy conversion and storage technologies, with a focus on applications such as industrial process heat, urban environments, and agriculture.
- Geothermal, heat networks, district heating: Our main emphasis is on further enhancing our understanding of the geothermal motor under different subsurface conditions, in different geographical and geological settings. This requires improved understanding of the physical and dynamical state of the subsurface, its composition and physical parameters, and surface geothermal expressions. The distribution infrastructure is undergoing rapid change and our research is focusing on assisting by improving the replacement of subsurface infrastructure, 3D registration of new infrastructure, and innovative heat network design.
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