The Slovenian Energy Association (SZE) successfully hosted the SZE 2024 International Conference from June 2 to June 4, 2024, at the Grand Hotel Bernardin in Portorož, Slovenia. This prestigious event was organized in collaboration with Kronoterm, the main sponsor.Our group presented the latest findings from the 3Diverse project, which focused Read more…
On Friday, April 19, 2024, we had an exceptional opportunity to expand our professional knowledge with students by visiting two leading companies in the industry. Students had the exclusive opportunity to learn about the internal operations and processes at the Hisense Gorenje corporation, which, among other things, is involved Read more…
Developed thermoelectric heat pump with high efficiency, compactness, silent operation, no vibrations and environmentally friendly refrigerants.
TU Delft leads HEAT4ENERGY, a European consortium, dedicated to develop thermomagnetic devices and novel materials to harvest heat from data centres, food, pulp and paper industries and convert this waste heat to electricity. This project ticks all the boxes: energy transition, decarbonising, low and high power devices for conversion of Read more…
LAHDE concluded an enlightening visit to the conference in Dresden, which took place on November 13-14. Our team members demonstrated their expertise with interesting contributions: Prof. Dr. Andrej Kitanovski took to the stage as an invited speaker Title of the lecture: Magnetocalorics and thermomagnetics: the past, the present and the Read more…
The visibility of our work continues – we celebrate our latest achievement!LAHDE members (Prof. Dr. Andrej Kitanovski, Dr. Katja Klinar, Katja Vozel) have once again received support from the Innovation Fund of University of Ljubljana, this year for the project TEcomfort: the compact unit for low-temperature heating and cooling systems.The Read more…
Researchers of Laboratory for Refrigeration and District Energy (LAHDE, process engineering) participated in a research on improving thermal comfort and energy efficiency in buildings using phase-change materials. The research was carried out in Laboratory for Heating, Sanitary, Solar and Air Conditioning Engineering (LOSK, process engineering), also by participation of researchers Read more…
Yesterday we were delighted to welcome the start of the new academic year and celebrate it with a special event – Open Lab Day! Our lab also opened its doors to give the new students a glimpse into the various exciting projects and experiments we are conducting. Some of the research Read more…
We are pleased to announce that the LAHDE team has successfully completed its active participation in the 26th International Congress on Refrigeration (ICR 2023) in stunning Paris! This unique and extremely important meeting takes place every 4 years, and perhaps this year was all the more special because it returned Read more…
Researchers at the Laboratory for Refrigeration and District Energy (LAHDE, Process Engineering), in collaboration with researcher from the Laboratory for Structure Evaluation (LAVEK), have conducted a comprehensive study of the design, numerical analyses and experimental validation of various electro-permanent magnetic structures that can be used in magnetocaloric refrigeration. The research Read more…
Researchers at the Laboratory for Refrigeration and District Energy (LAHDE, Process Engineering), in collaboration with researchers from the Laboratory for Tribology and interface nanotechnology (TINT), have conducted a comprehensive study of the thermal properties of thermal switch capacitors used in magnetocaloric devices. The research results were published in the Journal Read more…
We’re excited to share with you pleasant news that has us counting down the days with excitement. In August, our team will be flying to Paris to attend the highly anticipated 26th IIR International Congress of Refrigeration, organized by IIFIIR – International Institute of Refrigeration. This prestigious event, held every Read more…
The Slovenian Energy Association (SZE) organized the International Conference SZE 2023 in Portorož between June 4th and June 6th, 2023. The main theme of the conference was Energy efficiency and sustainable, secure, and accessible energy supply. We participated in the conference with the following contribution:Developments on thermoelectric heat pump booster Read more…
LAHDE members presented the latest research results at the MRS 2023 meeting.
Within the ERC project SUPERCOOL we have investigated buckling stability of elastocaloric tubes and define the buckling phase diagrams, based on which functionally stable tubes to be used in elastocaloric devices can be selected. The results are published in International Journal of Solid and Structures.The paper is available here Read more…
We are pleased to announce that members of our Laboratory (dr. Luka Lorbek, dr. Luka Porenta, prof. dr. Andrej Kitanovski) were chosen as one of this year’s recipients of the University of Ljubljana Innovation Fund. A grant of 25.000€ was obtained to develop a prototype cooling system (EASE) and demonstrate Read more…
In the article The numerical study on performance evaluation of a thermal switch capacitor in a magnetocaloric cooling device, published in the journal iScience (IF 6.107), researchers from the Laboratory of Refrigeration and District Energy at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering numerically analyze the performance of a thermal control element Read more…
Within the ERC project SUPERCOOL we have developed fatigue-resistant elastocaloric regenerator with record cooling and heat-pumping performance. The results are published in prestigious journal Joule.
We were invited to publish a protocol on the use of the numerical model for the simulation of (magneto)caloric devices with thermal switches.The protocol is available here: link.The numerical model is available here: Zenodo in Github This protocol describes the use of a simple 1D numerical model to evaluate a Read more…
The Laboratory for Refrigeration and District Energy (LAHDE) won the three-year Cool BatMan project as a part of the M-ERA.NET tender entitled Battery Thermal Management System Based on High Power Density Digital Microfluidic Magnetocaloric Cooling (Cool BatMan). It is a consortium of 4 quality institutions where LAHDE acts as Read more…