University of Ljubljana

University of Ljubljana is the oldest and largest higher education and scientific research institution in Slovenia. University with its rich tradition was founded in 1919. It has approximately 40,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students and employs approximately 6,000 higher education teachers, researchers, assistants and administrative staff in 23 faculties and three arts academies.

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering as a part of the University of Ljubljana creates and transfers knowledge that provides students and partners in the research field a competitive integration into the international environment. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering strives to become one of the most important educational research faculties with the highest international standards of education and research in the field of mechanical engineering in Slovenia as well as Central and Southeast Europe, making graduates and research more appealing to both the Slovenian and international economies and research and development institutions.

Within the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering is the Laboratory for Refrigeration and District Energy – LAHDE whose main activities lie and research in four different, but interrelated pillars: Thermal management, Refrigeration & Heat Pumps, Thermal energy storage and harvesting and also District Energy and Energy Planning.

LAHDE laboratory is also involved in applied research and development of heat pumps, household appliances, heat exchangers, and other types of processes, devices and systems, related to thermal engineering as well as in planning and optimization of large scale systems, such are new generations of district cooling and heating systems.

Moreover the laboratory covers pedagogically the basic area of Heat and Mass transfer, Transport phenomena, Refrigeration, Heat pump, Energy supply, and Heat exchangers. We provide students with topics for seminars and bachelor and master theses, or doctoral studies, which are, due to their interdisciplinarity, also suitable for all fields of studies at the faculty.

The head of the laboratory is the experienced professor Dr. Andrej Kitanovski, who has many years of experience in higher education, research and development and innovation. Skilled in Energy Engineering, Futurism, Creativity.