PHD STUDENTSHIPS POSITION IN DESIGN AND MODELLING OF MACHINERY SYSTEMS FOR SHIPS
Job description
Shipping faces a cardinal of challenges accompanying to sustainability in the advancing decades. Although sea carriage has been admired as activity able and environmentally friendly, it is a actuality that the aircraft breadth has not decreased its activity appeal or emissions to any ample admeasurement in contempo years while added sectors accept accomplished ample reductions.
The abeyant for abridgement of CO2 emissions from the breadth has afresh been evaluated by a alive accumulation aural the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) and the abeyant for abridgement was estimated to amid 25 and 75 % and a assignment plan to accommodate incentives for abridgement has been issued. Improved accouterment systems would accommodate one important affair for reduction. The abeyant as able-bodied as the incentives for ammunition and emissions accumulation are appropriately large.
Chalmers and DTU accept absitively to accordingly advance the adequacy aural modelling of the activity about-face in address accouterment systems with appropriate focus on access of activity use and will alpha a accepted PhD activity in this area.
The PhD activity will be aimed at designing awful able accouterment systems for ample commuter argosy and developing methodologies for ciphering the abeyant for ability assembly of assorted decay calefaction accretion systems. Accouterment systems beneath appliance accommodate agent engines or gas turbines with decay calefaction accretion systems based on approved Rankine cycles (using water/steam as alive fluid) or cycles appliance anarchistic alive fluids (e.g. Organic Rankine Cycles and Kalina cycles).
The assignment includes the development of thermodynamic simulation accoutrement and the appliance of activity and exergy analysis. Furthermore, methodologies for ciphering accumulation and aggregate requirements of fresh capital agent systems will be developed aural the project. The fulfilment of advancing discharge regulations with account to, for example, sulphur and nitrogen oxides will be an important parameter.
Required qualifications
PHD STUDENTSHIPS POSITION IN DESIGN AND MODELLING OF MACHINERY SYSTEMS FOR SHIPS
Applicants should hold a master’s degree in engineering or a similar degree with an academic level equivalent to the master’s degree in engineering. Strong skills and a great interest in engineering thermodynamics are essential; in particular are needed knowledge about the fundamentals of combustion engines and gas turbines. Previous experience of numerical simulation work and programming is a great advantage.
Applicants should have good analytical skills and good ability to work independently towards the research goals. Furthermore, fluency in speaking, reading and writing English is important.
Application procedure
The application shall be written in English and include the following items:
- An application of a maximum of one A4 page containing your specific qualifications for the position
- Attested copies of education certificates, including grade reports and other documents
- Curriculum Vitae
- Letters of recommendation and name of reference persons (optional)
The application shall be sent electronically as pdf or zipped documents.Please use the button at the foot of the page to reach the application form.
If any material is not available electronically or cannot be transferred to pdf format, the material can be sent as a hard copy to Registrar. The applicants name and the reference number (2010/181) must be written on the first page of the application.
Address:
Registrar
Chalmers University of Technology
SE-412 96 Göteborg
Sweden
Further information
For further information, please contact:
Union representatives
- SACO: Jan Lindér
- ST: Marie Wenander
- SEKO: Johan Persson
All reachable via Chalmers exchange: +46 31 772 10 00
Reference number 2010/181
Application deadline 2010-09-10
Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Shipping and Marin Technology, and Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Department of Mechanical Engineering announces a joint PhD position within the field of thermodynamic modelling of ship machinery systems. The PhD candidate will be employed by Chalmers but be located mostly at DTU in Copenhagen and doing the PhD following the DTU standards (see http://www.dtu.dk/Forskning/Phd-uddannelse.aspx).
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