Research at Uppsala University

Research project from 2015-06-01 to 2017-06-30

District heating faces many challenges, such as lower heat demand in refurbished residential buildings from the million homes programme. How can present district-heating systems develop to fourth generation ...

Research project from 2008-02-11 to 2010-12-31

Genom grundläggande materialforskning av de i batteriet ingående materialen, i kombination med grundläggande elektrokemiska analyser, simulering och modellering samt testning av små och större battericeller ...

Research project from 2016-06-01 to 2018-12-31

This project aims at using scientific methods to improve the design of slow moving, permanent magnet generators for marine energy conversion. The goal is to develop generators that have better performance ...

Research project from 2015-09-01 to 2018-12-31

The project aims to: 1) evaluate the design and implementation of previous policies focusing on increased energy efficiency in existing buildings, 2) understand how the conservation movement has related ...

Research project from 2014-12-01 to 2017-06-30

In the project "battery-less sensors for energy-efficient buildings" we will use ambient backscatter to collect data from a huge amount of sensors. Ambient backscatter is a new paradigm-shifting technology ...

Research project from 2015-05-05 to 2017-04-01

Maintenance of wind farms can be systematically categorized as preventive, corrective, and condition based maintenance. Most of the major the O&M costs are dominated by corrective maintenance. To reduce ...

Research project from 2016-03-01 to 2018-02-28

The perovskite solar cell (PSC), dye solar cell (DSC) and quantum dot solar cell (QDSC) are emerging solar cell technologies, whose energy payback times could be considerably lower than that of silicon ...

Research project from 2014-12-01 to 2018-12-31

We intend to depolymerize and hydrophobize the lignin in different side-streams from the forest industry to monomeric hydrocarbons that can be utilized as a green gas oil derivative to refine into biofuels ...

Research project from 2015-04-01 to 2017-03-31

With large amounts of renewable power in power systems the need for balancing reserves on different time scales increases. If building-applied photovoltaic systems (BAPV) are integrated extensively in ...

Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2017-06-30

The project focuses on development of thin diamond-like carbon (DLC) based protective coatings on insulator surfaces and on fast, cost-effective process of their deposition. The project aims to prevent ...

Research project from 2015-07-01 to 2017-12-31

MexNext Phase III includes possibilities to analyze results from the recently performed wind tunnel tests on a model wind turbine in the largest wind tunnel in Europe, that are completing the wind tunnel ...

Research project from 2015-07-01 to 2017-12-31

The project is of large interest for Sweden since it results in collaboration between different international groups in the area. Phase I of the project has considered comparisons between the international ...

Research project from 2016-02-01 to 2019-03-31

Main objective of the project is to design and implement a hierarchical control system for a micro grid which has renewable energy sources, small scale DGs and controllable loads that can be levelized ...

Research project from 2015-07-01 to 2018-12-31

Within the pulp and paper industry, the most energy consuming process step is the refining of fibres. The processes involved are very complex and neither the mechanisms at the micro level nor their implications ...

Research project from 2015-07-01 to 2018-06-01

The aim is to increase knowledge of electricity consumers’ need for information and feedback when they become prosumers and to develop business models and IT services that make it easier to be active in ...

Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2016-12-31

Solar fuel is the target for the Consortium for Artificial Photosynthesis. The basic concept is simple: With solar energy water is split into oxygen and hydrogen. Hydrogen is one fuel but also other fuels ...

Research project from 2015-05-11 to 2016-10-11

Several recent reports from other countries show a deterioration in production from wind farms over time. The results range from a limited but significant reduction to a very severe ditto. In this project ...

Research project from 2015-10-01 to 2018-12-31

Development of new renewable energy conversion is necessary to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and ensure access to energy Wave power is one source of energy but like all energy sources with known ...

Research project from 2008-01-01 to 2010-12-31

Det föreslagna projektet adresserar förlust mekanismer i svänghjul och elektriska maskiner. Detta är av central betydelse för framtida tillämpningar. Inte bara för att öka verkningsgraden i system för ...

Research project from 2016-06-01 to 2018-12-31

This project proposal is a two-level study related to tides and point absorbing wave energy converters (WECs). The first part is a generic study relevant to many point absorbing WEC technologies (see Project ...

Research project from 2015-09-21 to 2018-12-31

The objective of this project is to develop a new type of system for indoor climate control in historic buildings. The project builds on previous research as the system integrates climate specifications ...

Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2019-12-31

Organometallic redox-catalysts of energy relevance, i.e. water and hydrogen oxidation, and proton and carbon dioxide reduction catalysts, will be incorporated into metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). The ...

Research project from 2015-07-01 to 2016-12-31

If the current trend for installed photovoltaic (PV) capacity continues in Sweden, connection of distributed PV systems to electricity distribution grids will increase. In countries where this has happened ...

Research project from 2008-01-01 to 2010-12-31

Projektet syftar till att få en fundamental förståelse för hur nya effektiva solceller kan konstrueras. I projektet studeras funktionen hos en sådan hybrid-solcell (bestående av hårda och mjuka fasta nanomaterial ...

Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2018-12-31

The project aim is to produce hydrocarbon in cyanobacteria with light and carbondioxid as the sole input. The project goal is to create a cyanobacteria throught genetic modification that has the capacity ...

Research project from 2015-10-20 to 2016-12-30

This project aims at a full scale test of a developed magnetic unloader for vertical hydropower units in order to build the most effective hydropower generator in the world. The magnetic unloader acts ...

Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2019-12-31

This proposal targets novel strategies for realisation of the Lithium-Sulfur (Li-S) battery system, which is of high importance for energy storage in the future energy system due to its advantages of high ...

Research project from 2014-10-01 to 2016-09-30

The energy consumption of an aerodynamically optimized aircraft may be lower than a ground vehicle, and this at much higher speeds. Study aims at 1) inventory of national and international activities ...

Research project from 2008-08-20 to 2008-12-31

The Swedish Energy Agency supports the project "Grätzel solar cells" during 2006-01-01 to 2008-12-31. The project aims to develop a technology for large scale production of Grätzel solar cells giving a ...

Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2016-12-31

Environmentalism is mainly presented as externally located opposition to the corporate world, with the assumption that ‘activism’ is something that takes place within the realms of civil society and not ...