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Heat Process Integration: A strategy to improve the thermal energy efficiency

Nowadays, everyone is aware of how much energy costs have an impact on a company’s account. The opportunity to maximize useful outputs by consuming the least primary inputs possible is the goal when one is studying efficiency of energy systems. Friday, December 7, lectured by Henrique Matos, at 4PM, room V0.15.

 

07-12-2018
Sustainable Materials and Technologies

ELECTROWetting heat pipes for cooling Applications in Electric Vehicles

ELECTROWetting heat pipes for cooling Applications in Electric Vehicles is a project leaded by IST-ID in partnership with UT Austin and FEUP. Started on December 1 and lasting 12 months, the project consists of proving the concept of novel heat pipe technology for multiple, disruptive, energy-related applications (patent pending) and showing its suitability in cooling the batteries of electric vehicles.

André Gonçalves

06-12-2018

Assessing the potential impacts of alternative mobility solutions

The last years has seen a rising number of alternatives regarding vehicle technology and the promotion of the mobility-as-a-service concept. This seminar focuses on some of these solutions and explores how their adoption can be promoted, as well as what their energy and environmental impacts are expected to be.

 

23-11-2018
Urban Sustainability

Sharing Lisboa

Sharing Lisboa is a project developed under the European Sharing Cities Program, which unites municipalities, citizens and private companies, with the objective of improving the quality of life in cities, through the use of new technologies and the involvement of the citizens.

André Gonçalves

16-11-2018
Technology Management and Policy

Jobs for the Future - Portugal

Industry 4.0 is a key issue to address as the integration of digital technologies will profoundly change the production paradigm across the world, many of today's jobs will cease to exist in the future and many of the jobs of the future are yet to be designed.

André Gonçalves

16-11-2018

FIRST workshop at the Energy Day

The FIRST project has its first workshop during the ENERGY DAY conference, on November 15th 2018, organized by LNEG. The objective of this workshop is to discuss with academia, governmental agencies and industry the advantages of mapping urban energy systems and its features, in particular load flexibility.

 

15-11-2018

Renewing the approach to renewals: microfluidic solutions to enhance the energy conversion in solar panels

Friday, November 9, at 4 p.m., will take place in room V0.15, the seminar Renewing the approach to renewals: microfluidic solutions to enhance the energy conversion in solar panels, lectures by Ana Moita from IN+, under the series of Seminars on Sustainable Energy Systems.

 

09-11-2018

Opportunity

SMART Data Sprint

SMART Data Sprint is an intensive hands-on work, driven by online data and digital methods. During one week, participants will have the chance to attend to keynote lectures, short talks, and parallel sessions of practical labs. Afterwards, experts and scholars will invite participants to join projects and work in a collective problem.

André Gonçalves

09-11-2018
Opportunity

Young Engineer Innovation Award 2018

Applications are open for the 2018 edition of the Young Engineer Innovation Award. If you are a member of the Order of Engineers and are up to 35 years old, you can apply until December 28 to win up to 10,000 euros.

André Gonçalves

28-09-2018

About Us

Centre for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research

We are a cross-disciplinary research venue, acting to integrate scientific research in technology, innovation and public policy, striving to promote the sustainable application of science. Institutionally, IN+ operates at Técnico Lisboa and is a member of the associate laboratory LARSyS.

Our activities brings together researchers from various research areas, often called laboratories, who join efforts to achieve a sustainable society, by cooperating with industry and fostering a scientific culture in our spaces, fellows and communities.