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  • KTH improves power generation

    Two men standing at a large concentrated solar power plant, with mirrors surrounding them.
    Where the radiation is good it might be suitable to capture heat from the sun is by mirrors angled so that they redirect the light to a point in a tower. The tower gets very hot and fluid takes up and storage the heat that is later used to drive a CO2 turbine. Salvatore Guccione and Rafael Guedez visited this tower in Spain.
    Published Feb 15, 2023

    Many of today's power plants are powered by turbines run by steam. In recent years, turbines driven by a special form of CO2 show exciting potential. There is still research needed to make the technol...

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  • New project on digital solutions for value recovery in manufacturing

    Person in manufacturing
    Photo: This is engineering, Unsplash.
    Published Feb 07, 2023

    A four-year research project involving KTH and partners from 9 countries kicked-off in January 2023. The project will focus on the development of an open access platform for lifecycle information mana...

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  • PSSST releases final report

    Cars at a traffic light.
    Photo by Nabeel Syed on Unsplash.
    Published Jan 31, 2023

    The project PSSST (Policies for sustainable, shared self-driving transportation) has ended and the final report is now available. Some of the findings were the importance of mixing different kinds of ...

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  • INDEK researcher granted 5.1 million SEK for project about CO2 emissions

    Published Jan 24, 2023

    New grant worth SEK 5.1 million by Marianne and Marcus Wallenbergs Stiftelse for the project"Impact of the EU Emissions Trading System on firm behavior and CO2 emissions".

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  • INDEK researcher has been appointed as member of an expert group in European Union DG CLIMA

    Published Jan 19, 2023
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  • Financial Times praises article by Christian Thomann at INDEK

    Published Jan 18, 2023
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  • Replacing wood and charcoal stoves in Africa could save half a million lives every year

    Two people hauling bundles of chopped wood on their shoulders on a rural road.
    A new study assigns actual value to the negative aspects of traditional cooking methods in the developing world, including lost time due to collecting wood or other burnable biomass. Pictured, women carry firewood for cooking at home in Kenya. (Photo: Youssef Boulkaid)
    Published Jan 12, 2023

    Half a million lives could be saved each year in sub-Saharan Africa by taking action to reduce reliance on traditional wood- and charcoal-burning stoves, a new study shows.

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  • Interview with Henrik Uggla from INDEK at Sweden's Marketing Association

    Published Jan 12, 2023

    Brand expert Henrik Uggla at INDEK, where he has the courses Brand Portfolio Management and Strategy and industrial marketing, has been interviewed by the Swedish Marketing Association

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  • Nanoparticles in emissions on researcher’s radar

    Published Jan 05, 2023

    Nanoparticles are everywhere, but we don't know how many or how toxic they are to humans and nature. The nPETS project involves researchers from all over Europe who visit road tunnels and airports to ...

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  • ScAIEM Winter School

    Winter PhD School
    Published Dec 14, 2022

    The ScAIEM Winter School “Sustainable Energy Transitions – Technology and Management Perspectives” (5 ECTS) is an interdisciplinary PhD course package that offers doctoral students a training in innov...

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  • They won the Ebbe Lyths scholarship 2022

    The winners
    Published Dec 13, 2022

    Two students at the Energy Technology department, Julia Almebäck and Rebecka Magnius, have received a scholarship from Kylbranschens samarbetsstiftelse for their MSc thesis work.

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  • Course takes a critical look at assumptions about sustainability

    Picture of Emrah Karakaya
    "The sustainability discourse both in research and the public domain is usually dogmatic, often picturing sustainability as a black-and-white issue,” says Emrah Karakaya.
    Published Dec 12, 2022

    A new PhD course examined how common assumptions about sustainability feed into research and what can be done about it.

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  • The overqualified taxi driver

    Portrait of Munir Al-Saadi.
    Published Dec 06, 2022

    How would life have turned out for Munir Al-Saadi if Sandvik's Olle Wijk had not gotten into his taxi that December night 15 years ago? Most likely, he had not been receiving a doctoral diploma in the...

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  • Impact on biodiversity often neglected in autonomous vehicle research

    Description of the explored dimensions and the three scenarios.
    Description of the explored dimensions and the three scenarios.
    Published Nov 28, 2022

    The impact on important issues such as biodiversity and cybersecurity are often neglected in autonomous vehicle research frameworks, according to a new ITRL study.

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  • Researchers at INDEK have been awarded funding for a doctoral winter school

    Published Nov 21, 2022

    Frauke Urban from INDEK and Nimali Gunasekara from Energy Technology at KTH have received funding from the Scandinavian Academy of Industrial Engineering and Management (ScAIEM) for a winter school fo...

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  • Arnold Pears nominated as President-Elect for the IEEE Education Society

    IEEE Education Society logo
    Published Nov 16, 2022

    Congratulations to Arnold Pears in the IEEE Education Society election for 2023-2024.

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  • New report out - Crisis and catalyst by Dr Ruth Graham

    Book cover of Crisis and catalyst
    Published Oct 27, 2022

    Dr Graham brings 20 years of professional experience in academic research and higher education reform, working with universities, professional bodies, industry and governments from across the world. H...

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  • Sri Lankan partners visit at EGI

    Visitors from Sri Lanka
    Published Oct 25, 2022

    During the first week of October the Sri Lankan university partners in the EUSL project were visiting KTH. The Department of Energy Technology offered the long distance guests a packed program.

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  • Environmental taxes make companies invest in research

    Portrait of Christian Thomann
    Christian Thomann, associate professor and one of the researchers behind the study.
    Published Oct 24, 2022

    Companies with emissions affected by environmental taxes invest more in research and development. This is shown in a new international study by two Indek researchers.

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  • Six tons of batteries in experimental student residence

    Truck with batteries
    Unloading the batteries outside KTH Live-In Lab. Photo: Einar Mattsson
    Published Oct 12, 2022

    A large group of batteries has been installed for a research project in KTH Live-In Lab, an experimental student residence where KTH, Northvolt and Einar Mattsson conduct research together. They’re te...

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