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National team:

  • Technical University of Denmark, Department of Mechanical Engineering (represented by Wiebke Brix Markussen, Associate Professor)
  • Technical University of Denmark, The Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science (represented by Henrik Madsen, Head of section)
  • Energy Machines ApS (represented by Lasse Thomsen, R&D director)
  • Danish Technological Institute, Refrigeration and Heat Pump Technology (represented by Jonas Lundsted Poulsen, Senior Specialist)

Research work related to IoT and heat pumps:

Danish Technological Institute, Refrigeration and Heat Pump Technology

Danish Technological Institute (DTI) sees the field of digitalization and IoT for heat pumps as an emerging technology with the potential to leverage the entire heat pump market. The digitalization implies the potential for additional services, which decrease the cost of ownership for end-users. Therefore, DTI is strongly interested in this field and actively involved in different R&D projects such as the Digital Twin project, EnergyFlexLab, and OPSYS 2.0.

Technical University of Denmark, Department of Mechanical Engineering

The Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU Compute) conducts fundamental, advanced, strategic and applied research in the area of dynamical systems. An example of research work DTU Compute has actively been involved in regarding digitalization and heat pumps is the CITIES project, where data from the energy sector is analyzed and a cloud-based solution is developed that can integrate different energy sources and increase the share of renewable energy in the energy system by intelligent use of data – and achieve a significant CO2 reduction.

DTU Mechanical Engineering has a strategy that targets research topics related to digitalization and digital twins among others, and has as an example actively been involved in the project EnergyLab Nordhavn, which is a project that focuses on the cost-effective future smart energy system that integrates multiple energy infrastructures (electricity, thermal, transportation) and provides an intelligent control of subsystems and components – providing necessary energy flexibility for efficient utilization of renewable energy.

Energy Machines ApS is a company in the field of geothermal heat pumps, ventilation units, and systems for monitoring, control and data collection of heat pumps operation and performance. Energy Machines has a high focus on digitalization of their heat pump solutions, and has current activities within the fields of simulation, performance prediction of heat pumps, monitoring of performance, data collection and data analysis, and development of digital twins.

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Contact:

Jonas Lundsted Poulsen, Senior Specialist, Refrigeration and Heat Pump Technology, Danish Technological Institute, email: jlp@dti.dk