Mälardalen University , Sweden

Mälardalen University (abbreviated MDH) is one of Sweden’s large institutes of higher education. The University has over 14,000 students studying our 52 programmes and 1,000 courses, and almost 900 faculty and staff. MDH is characterized by close partnerships with businesses and the public sector in the region, making our University attractive to students - and our students attractive on the labor market. Qualified research within six major research areas is carried out at MDH: embedded systems, innovation and product realization, future energy, industrial economics and management, and health and welfare. Mälardalen University's (MDH) KKS research profile in energy engineering, called Future Energy, is to develop renewable energy systems in cooperation with five companies. Altogether the Knowledge Foundation, MDH and the companies are investing 83 million SEK in this research environment that includes over 50 researchers. The research profile will focus on meeting future changes in energy systems by increasing and streamlining the share of renewable energy in the form of biogas, solar energy and biowaste. The goal is to create an internationally competitive research environment with a focus on renewable energy, energy efficiency and minimisation of emissions. The participating companies are ABB, VAFAB Miljö, Eskilstuna Energi och Miljö, Mälarenergi and Aspholmen.

Prof. Jinyue Yan – See details under KTH partner description above

Dr. Anders Lundblad – See details under KTH partner description above

Dr. Hailong Li is Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor in the department of energy engineering and Future Energy Centre at Mälardalen University. He got my PhD degree in 2008 at the Division of Energy Processes, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden. Before he started working at Mälardalen University in 2010, he worked as a research scientist in SINTEF Energy Research, the biggest research institute in Norway. His research interests mainly lie in the mitigation of the climate change and the efficient conversion and utilization of energy, which are in line with the research profile of ‘Future Energy Center’. The research work covers the areas of modeling and simulation of energy conversion processes, with special focuses on biomass, biogas and PV, smart energy grid, smart metering and energy pricing, thermodynamic properties of fluids, technologies of CO2 capture and storage (CCS). Currently, he is serving as the Assistant Editor of Applied Energy (Impact factor: 5.261). He have been organizing the International Conference on Applied Energy (ICAE) since 2012.

Dr. Raza Naqvi is postdoctoral researcher within the Future Energy Center at the School of Business, Society and Engineering, Mälardalen University. He obtained his PhD in Chemical Engineering from KTH Royal Institute of Technology Sweden in 2012. His PhD dissertation was ‘Analysing performance of bio-refinery systems by integrating black liquor gasification with chemical pulp mills’. He has worked as an Assistant Professor at University of Gujrat.  Currently he is working as Assistant Editor of Applied Energy, an ELSEVIER journal (Impact factor = 5.261). He is also member of the organizing committee of International Conferences on Applied Energy (ICAE).

Dr. Pietro Elia Campana is postdoctoral researcher within the Future Energy Center at the School of Business, Society and Engineering, Mälardalen University. He obtained his PhD in Energy and Environmental Technology from Mälardalen University in 2015. He has served as research assistant at the International Institute for Applied System Analysis, Vienna. He has been visiting PhD student at the Chinese Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Institute of Water resources for Pastoral Areas, State Key Laboratory of Energy Clean Utilization (Zhejiang University), and Department of Building Services Engineering (Hong Kong Polytechnic University). He is registered as professional engineer in Italy. Currently he is working as Assistant Editor of Applied Energy, an ELSEVIER journal. He is also member of the organizing committee of International Conferences on Applied Energy (ICAE).

Completed and on-going projects

• Biogas Digestate for Safe Usage in Agriculture
• Carbon dioxide mixtures with impurities and their impacts on carbon capture and storage
• CONAN - control strategies for the anammox process
• COSSMICA-Co-digestion of Sewage sludge and Microalgae
• Heat pump with a high solar electricity fraction and high self-consumption of solar electricity
• Industrial Post-Graduate School Reesbe
• KKS research profile Future Energy
• Model Reduction for Online MultiDisciplinary Optimization (MR-OMDO)
• More Sense – Speciation and optimization of elements in algae biomass cultivation systems for safe s
• Planning for Energy Efficient Cities, PLEEC
• ROMEO – Recovery-robust optimization of energy production
• STREAM
• Sustainable Urban Development
• The Collaborative Research on the Upgrade of Cellulosic Ethanol-Biogas Industry
• The role of flexible consumers in a future renewable power system
• Thermodynamic Evaluation of Energy Consumption in Buildings
• ABOWE - Implementing Advanced Concepts for Biological Utilization of Waste
• Biogas cooperation with China
• BIOREX - Biological Remediation of Explosives
• Centre for Direct Gasification of Biomass
• Decision Support for Precise Maintenance
• Demonstration and Scale-Up of Photovoltaic Solar Water Pumping for the Conservation of Grassland and
• Design of a single family house with heat pump and PV-system with high solar fraction
• Enabling buildings as an active component in the future energy system?
• Evaluation of first MW PV plant in Sweden
• Increased consumer power in the Nordic electricity market
• Online-optimization of logistics and energy in process industry
• Optimization of reversible solar thermally driven heat pumps
• Pilot study - new combination of sludge treatment for hygienisation, reduced sludge production...
• Polluted Peace Mobility Programme
• Research and education consortium within wastewater and sludge management
• Sustainable Business for Future Energy
• Tactics and methods utilized in fire during ground
• Tomorrow's municipal wastewater - a production facility for utilities

Facilities
MDH has an energy laboratory for active buildings where distributed generation systems, such as solar and wind, controllable loads and appliances, battery and heat pump are tested to provide optimal integrated solutions, especially for households.