About the Department
The Deparment of Energy Technology is part of the School of Engineering and was established on January 1, 2017, within the framework of the structural reform of TalTech on the basis of the Deparment of Thermal Engineering and Chemical Engineering. The Department conducts teaching and research at the bachelor's, master's and doctoral levels.
The fields of activity are chemical engineering, environmental engineering, thermal engineering, thermal power equipment, thermal management, thermal energy and energy technologies.
Research is also being conducted on hydrogen, solar heat, heat storage, and renewable energy.
The research is divided into following main areas:
- District heating and cooling (electrification, optimisation and digitalisation);
- Energy system transition and decarbonisation metrics;
- Thermal energy storage and new energy carrier systems;
- Hydrogen storage and porous carbon materials;
- Thermochemical conversion of waste and fuels, and environmental impact;
- Environmental engineering and water quality in the context of energy systems;
- Oil shale technologies and waste valorisation.
The Department of Energy Technology provides services in four accredited testing activities: chemical analyses of fuels, ash, precipitation; measurement of air emissions, determination of the metal condition of pressurized equipment and thermal measurements.
The mission of the Department of Energy Technology is
- to be a competitive center for education, research and development in the fields of thermal, chemical and environmental engineering;
- to offer internationally competitive higher education at all levels and to conduct top-level basic and applied research.
Two of the professorships of engineering sciences at Tallinn University of Technology belong to the Department of Energy Technology:
- National Engineering Professorship of Chemical Engineering - Prof. Oliver Järvik
- National Engineering Professorship of Oil Shale Technologies - Prof. Alar Konist
Structure
- Research Group of Sustainable Energy and Fuels - Tenured Full Professor Alar Konist
- Research Group of Smart District Heating Systems and Integrated Assessment Analysis of Greenhouse Gases Emissions - Tenured Full Professor Anna Volkova
- Research Group of Environmental, Energy and Chemical Technology - Tenured Associate Professor Oliver Järvik
- Laboratory of Fuel and Air Emission Analysis
- Laboratory of Energy Technology
Council
- Alar Konist, Director, Tenured Full Professor;
- Anna Volkova, Tenured Full Professor;
- Oliver Järvik, Tenured Associate Professor;
- Hesham Ali, Early Stage Researcher;
- Andrei Dedov, Senior Lecturer;
- Inna Kamenev, Senior Lecturer;
- Igor Krupenski, Professor of Practice;
- Alejandro Lyons Cerón, Researcher;
- Dmitri Nešumajev, Senior Researcher;
- Kati Roosalu, Early Stage Researcher;
- Tõnu Pihu, Leading Researcher;
- Sreenath Sukumaran, Researcher;
- Hannela Artus, Early Stage Researcher.
The mandate of the council is valid until August 31, 2028.