Rahmatollah Khodabandeh

Professor in Energy Technology

Telephone: 08-790741 3

Mobile: 073-460 47 63

E-post:

Visiting address: Brinellvägen 68, Stockholm

Department of Energy Technology; www.energy.kth.se
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH); www.kth.se

Research:

The basic research fields:

·        Refrigerants with low Global Warming Potential (GWP)

·        Using liquid cooling for electronic components such as, Thermosyphons, Heat pipes and Sprays

·        Heat Transfer in Mini and Micro channels

·        Natural refrigerants for cooling applications

·        Using Nano-Fluids for Enhancement of Heat Transfer

·        Enhanced heat transfer of compact heat exchanger

·        Using low grade heat in Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC)

Present employment:

Professor in Energy Technology at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH).

Study Director of PhD program: Energy, Environment and System at the department of Energy Technology

Vice Director of Doctoral studies at school of Industrial Engineering and Management (ITM)
 

Supervision of PhD students at Department of Energy Technology, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

PhD Thesis projects:

·         Load shifting and storage of cooling energy through ice bank or ice slurry systems, modeling and experimental analysis

·         Heat Transfer, pressure drop and visualization using ammonia in minichannels

·         Flow boiling heat transfer, pressure drop and dryout characteristics of low GWP refrigerants in a vertical mini-channel

·         Single Phase Convective Heat Transfer with Nanofluids: An Experimental Approach

·         Refrigerants with low GWP

·         Using nanofluids and nanoporous structure surfaces in heat pipes

·         Enhanced heat transfer of compact heat exchanger