Research projects
Ongoing research projects
Funding by Walloon Region of Belgium
- OCCuPANt (Impacts of climate change on the indoor environment of buildings in Belgium). Funding: ARC. Period: 2020-2023.
- IEA-ECES Task 36 (Carnot Batteries: "investigate, assess and strengthen the potential role of Carnot Batteries in the future energy systems").Period 2019-.
- IEA-EBC Annex 80 (Resilient Cooling).Period 2019-.
Funding by Europe
- REGEN-BY-2. Next REnewable multi-GENeration technology enabled by TWO-phase fluids machines (Multi-generation systems for cooling, heating and electricity production). European H2020 call of projects (LC-SC3-RES-1-2019-2020). Period: 2020-2024. Grant Agreement No. 851541.
Other sources of funding
- FIELD-TEST. Evaluation des performances énergétiques et environnementales de systèmes de chauffage et micro-cogénération au gaz. Funding by gas.be. Period: 2019-2021.
- IEA-EBC Annex 85 (Indirect Evaporative Cooling).Period 2019-.
Completed research projects
Funding by Walloon Region of Belgium
- GTherm (Waste heat recovery from industry by means of Thermo-Electric Generators). Coordinator: UCLouvain. Partnters: CRM. ULiege as subcontractor.
- POC (development of a pumped thermal energy storage with a reversible heat pump/ORC module). Funding DGO6. Period: 2019. Convention DIFST#1880015. Budget ULiège: 74500 EUR.
- EcoSystemePass (Development of greenhouse energy simulation models for energy integration investigation). Funding: Feder. Period: 2017-2021.
- Silenthalpic (Development of innovative decentralized ventilation units). Funding: DGO6. Period: 2017-2018.
- SW_GREEN (Generated and Recuperated Energy for Environmental Novelty/ Waste heat recovery from plane engine test benches). Funding DGO6. Partner: ACTE, Safran AeroBooster. Period: 2012-2017. Convention #6807. Budget ULg: 479,300 EUR.
- ORCAL (Waste heat recovery by means of ORC connected to heat pipes). Funding: DGO6. Call for projects BEWARE Fellowships Industrie. Partner: CMI. Period: 2015-2016. Convention #1410274. Budget ULg: 211,100 EUR.
- Smart-PAC (Integration of exhaust air heat pumps into smart-grids). Funding: DGO6. Period 2014-2015. (Convention #1318279)
- IEA-EBC Annex 60 project (New generation computational tools for building and community energy systems based on the Modelica and Functional Mockup Interface standards). Funding DGO4. Period 2012-2015.
- Flexipac (Optimization of energy demand by controlling thermal systems (heat pumps, etc.) with a view to integrating into the grid intermittent energy sources and economic valorization of flexibility). Funding: DGO4. Period 2012-2015.
- IEA-ECBCS Annex 59 project (Low temperature heating and high temperature cooling). Funding DGO4. Period 2012-2015.
- IEA-EBC Annex 58 project (Reliable Building Energy Performance Characterization based upon Full Scale Dynamic Measurements). Funding DGO4. Period 2012-2016
- Geotabs project. Towards a better knowledge of geothermal heat pump systems connected to TABS. Coordinator : K.U.Leuven. ERA-SME/ERA-net. Period: 2011-2013.
- Comotex project. Development of a biomass CHP system using an Ericsson engine Coordinator: Coretec. Call for projects of the Pôle Mecatech in the frame of Plan Marshall 2.vert. Period: 2011-2013. Budget ULg: 335,818 EUR.
- Green + project. Development of a heat recovery heat exchanger for distributed ventilation system. Coordinator: Acte. Call for projects of the Pôle Mecatech in the frame of Plan Marshall. Period: 2009-2012.
- Sisal2 project. Development of a building simulation tool on line. EnergyWall Call. Period 2009-2010.
- IEA-ECBCS Annex 53 project (Total Energy Use in Buildings – Analysis and evaluation methods). Funding by DGO4. Period: 2009-2013.
- EA-ECBCS Annex 48 project (Heat pumping and reversible air-conditioning). Funding DGO4. Period 2006-2010.
Funding by Brussels Region of Belgium
- EPICOOL project. Modeling and simulation of cooling plants. Coordinator: K.U.Leuven. Period : 2008-2011.
Funding by Flemish Region of Belgium
- ORC-Next. The next generation Organic Rankine Cycles. Coordinator: Ghent University. Funding of the IWT-SBO. Period: 1/2012-1/2015 (IWT-referentienummer: 110006).
- Energy Conscious Design - Waste Heat Recovery. Coordinator: Flanders Make. Partners: Flanders Make, Dana, Bosal, Siemens, Voxdale, Ghent University. Funding of the IWT ("knowledge partner"). Period: 2015. Bugdet ULg: 80020 EUR.
Funding by Europe
- Harmonac project. Energy Audit of Buildings. Coordinator: Université of Cardiff. Intelligent Energy Europe. Period: 2007-2010.
- iSERV project. Energy Audit of HVAC systems. Coordinator: Université of Cardiff. Intelligent Energy Europe. Period 2011-2013.
- Nowaste project. Heat recovery on truck engine by means of ORC. Coordinator: CRF (Fiat). European FP7 call of projects (FP7-SST-2011-RTD-1). Period: 1/10/2011-30/09/2015 (Grant Agreement No. 285103).
- Bricker project (Total Renovation Strategies for Energy Reduction in Public Building Stock). European FP7 call of projects. Period: 2013-2017 (Grant Agreement No. 609071). Budget ULg: 567100 EUR.
- Joules project (Joint Operation for Ultra Low Emission Shipping). European FP7 call of projects (SST.2013.1-2 of the Sustainable Transport Work Programme 2013). Period: 2013-2017. Grant Agreement No. 605190. Budget ULg: 51700 EUR.
Other sources of funding
- Sun2power project (development, construction and testing of a micro-solar power plant). Funding by CMI, Enertime, Honeywell, Emerson, ULg. 2009-2016. Budget ULg: 100000 EUR.
- Matras Project (Machine thermique pour refroidissement actif d’un satellite). Funding by FNRAE (France). Thales subcontracts ULg. Partners: IMFT, CETHIL, LAPLACE, LET, LeTh, Thales Alenia Space. Period: 2009-2013.
- Procebar project (Evolution of energy load profiles of the Belgian residential building stock with the introduction of new HVAC technologies and combined heat and power units). Funding by Engie. Period 2012-2013.
- QinE project (Optimale warmtehuishouding bij toekomstige automotive aandrijfsysteme / Optimal Thermal Management for Next Generation Automotive Power Systems). Funding: Stichting Innovatie Alliantie (Netherlands). Period: 2013-2016. Budget ULg: 18477 EUR.
- FALCON (Flexible & Aerodynamic Truck for Low CONsumption). Funding by Fonds unique interministériel (F.U.I.)(France). ULiege is subcontractor. Partners: Renault Trucks, Enogia, Faurecia, IFPEN. Period: 2017-2020.
- Physiother
updated on 6/22/21
