Summer School
Spirit-Heat / SPIRIT Summer schoolThe SPIRIT Summer school is now open for registrations!
This training opportunity will aim at increasing the competences and knowledge of various students and other participants, thereby creating greater awareness regarding the challenges and opportunities of industrial heat pumps.
🔍 What is it? The SPIRIT Summer school on Industrial high-temperature heat pumps (HTHP) for decarbonisation of industrial process heating. This intensive 10-day course will combines lectures, expert talks, and site visits to real-world and pilot HTHP applications.
📅 When does it take place? From June 16 to June 27, 2025.
📍Where does it take place? At DTU Lyngby Campus, in Copenhagen (only onsite)
👥 Who can register? The summer school is open to Phd and Masters students as well as industry professionals and consultants with a background in thermal energy, thermo-fluid engineering (or similar) and with strong basis of thermodynamics analysis, heat transfer mechanisms and fluid mechanics principles.
🧠 Why should I enroll? Participants will gain both scientific and applied knowledge on HTHP development, industrial integration, and business models, guided by leading European researchers and industry professionals. Masters and PhD students will also gain credits after the submission of the written reports.
📚 What will I learn?
Knowledge
- Role of HTHPs in sustainable energy systems
- Energy, exergy, and economic analysis methods
- Energy integration and pinch analysis
- Heat pump technologies: subcritical, transcritical, non-electrical cycles (e.g., thermoacoustic)
- Heat pump components, working fluids, compressors, and heat exchangers
- Market trends, business models, and EU regulations
- Heat storage mechanisms and modeling
- Real-world HTHP integration in decarbonized systems
Skills
- Analyze and optimize HTHPs for industrial applications
- Perform energy, exergy, and economic assessments
- Conduct pinch analysis using TLK tools
- Design efficient, cost-effective HTHPs and heat storage systems
- Model and tailor heat exchangers, compressors, and refrigerants
- Conduct techno-economic and environmental comparisons with competing technologies
- Integrate PID control in HTHP systems
- Evaluate market trends and regulatory compliance
- Study real-world case projects (e.g. SPIRIT, Push2Heat)
This program equips participants with both theoretical expertise and hands-on skills to drive industrial heat pump adoption and decarbonisation efforts.