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FisMat 2025, Venice
At this year’s FisMat conference, held in Venice, Italy, a special workshop on cooling of electronics and sensors took place.
PUBLICATIONS
TCCbuilder: an open-source tool for the analysis of thermal switches, thermal diodes, thermal regulators, and thermal control circuits
Researchers of the LAHDE laboratory of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, have developed an open-source tool for 1D modeling of thermal control circuits, TCCbuilder.
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Successful completion of ICR2023
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…
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A conceptual design of a thermal switch capacitor in a magnetocaloric device
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…
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The numerical study on performance evaluation of a thermal switch capacitor in a magnetocaloric cooling device
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…
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Protocol to evaluate a (magneto)caloric device with static thermal switches using a 1D numerical model
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…
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Cool BatMan project as a part of the M-ERA.NET tender
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…
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Ferrofluidic thermal switch in a magnetocaloric device
A paper on implementation of ferofluidic thermal switch in magnetocaloric device has been published in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Twente. The article was published in the journal iScience.
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LAHDE annual report: 2021
LAHDE Scientific annual report: Published papers MAIORINO, Angelo, DEL DUCA, Manuel Gesù, TOMC, Urban, TUŠEK, Jaka, KITANOVSKI, Andrej, APREA, Ciro. A numerical modelling of a multi-layer LaFeCoSi active magnetic regenerator by using artificial neural networks. Applied thermal engineering, ISSN 1359-4311. [Print ed.], Oct. 2021, vol. 197, str. 1-13, ilustr. https://www.sciencedirect. Read more…
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ARRS will (co-)finance TCCbuilder research project
The Public Research Agency of the Republic of Slovenia (ARRS) will finance a basic science project entitled TCCbuilder: An open-source simulation tool for thermal control circuits. The project was selected together with 12 other projects of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering UL.The project concerns the development of World’s first numerical Read more…
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Thermal rectification using multi-layered materials
A paper on increasing thermal rectification using multi-layered materials has been published in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Twente. The article was published in the journal iScience.
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CHC Caloric Heating and Cooling seminar, Twente 2020
Eurotherm CHC (Caloric Heating and Cooling) 2020 is another scientific seminar that was postponed from last year to 2021. It took place virtually between 13 and 15 July. The LAHDE laboratory participated in 4 conference papers and an invited lecture:Cool future: magnetocaloric devices based on static and rare earth free Read more…
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Thermag X, Ljubljana 2022 is cancelled
The 10th IIR International Conference on Caloric Cooling and Applications of Caloric Materials is CANCELLED. Dear colleagues, We hope your are healthy and safe. Peace, safety and health of the conference participants is our main concern, including of course the high quality of conference service to participants, which we want Read more…
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Thermag IX, 2021
After a one-year delay, the 9th International IIR Conference on Caloric Cooling and Use of Caloric Materials was held in June 2021. Although the conference was held in virtual format, many interesting research activities were presented. For more information on the conferences, please visit this website. Members of the LAHDE Read more…
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2021 Virtual Spring Meeting & Exhibit
Due to coronavirus epidemic, MRS ( Material Research Society ) Spring Meeting was again held virtually. Together with the research group from Twente Univeristy we presented thermal rectification with multilayer phase change materials: High Asymmetric Heat Transport in Multilayer Phase Change Materials. Apart from the lack of personal contact, pastries Read more…
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Fluidic and mechanical thermal control devices
An extensive review of thermal management with fluidic and mechanical thermal control devices has been published in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Twente (Dr. Miguel Muñoz Rojo and Timm Swoboda). A review article published in the journal Advanced electronic materials (published by Wiley) presents the second of two Read more…
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Solid-state thermal control devices
An extensive review of thermal management with thermal control devices based on solid-state physics phenomena has been published in collaboration with colleagues from the Universities of Twente (Dr. Miguel Muñoz Rojo and Timm Swoboda) and Stanford (Dr. Ananth Saran Yalamarthy). A review article published in the journal Advanced electronic materials Read more…
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Virtual Spring/Fall MRS 2020 meeting
The new coronavirus epidemic has caused most conferences to be canceled or postponed. The MRS ( Material Research Society ) usually organizes two researcher meetings a year – in the spring and in the fall. This year, both meetings were held in virtual form via a special platform at the Read more…
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Toward a solid-state thermal diode for room-temperature magnetocaloric energy conversion
The article was published in the Journal of Applied Physics and is available here.Thermal control elements, i.e., thermal diodes, switches, and regulators, can control the heat flow in an analogous way in how electronic devices control electrical currents. In particular, a thermal diode allows a larger heat flux in one Read more…
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Advanced Energy Materials: Energy Applications of Magnetocaloric Materials
Along with environmentally-friendly refrigerants, high energy efficiency of refrigeration systems and heat pumping will represent the foundation of future refrigeration, heating and air-conditioning systems. Recuperation and utilization of waste heat at various temperature levels will enable significantly lower energy consumption not only for heating and refrigeration, but also for generation Read more…