Information for students

We, the research group at Risø DTU on magnetic refrigeration, is always interested in attracting new students.
We have previously had students doing everything from a major exercise in the Danish high school, to bachelor projects and masters' theses.

In December 2007 a student from the Danish high school in Sønderborg worked at the magnetic refrigeration research group for a week and afterwards wrote a report on magnetic refrigeration. This report was submitted to the Danish part of the international competition "Young Scientists" ("Unge Forskere") where it received the second prize: DKK 8000 and a trip to Beijing next spring.
You can read more about the story here or in the DTU newspaper (page 9 - in Danish).

Previously we have had students from both DTU and the University of Copenhagen doing research projects on magnetic refrigeration. The projects that have been done so far have been the following:

  • Final year high school report entited "Project on magnetic refrigeration" (the report mentioned above)

  • Report for a university special course entitled "Parameter variations on a magnetic refrigeration device"

  • Bachelorproject at the University of Copenhagen entitled "Magnetic cooling at Risø DTU"

  • Master's thesis at DTU entitled "Magnetocaloric effect in Ceramics"

If you are a student looking for a research project and find magnetic refrigeration to be an interesting subject you are always welcome to contact us. Projects are available in all research areas, i.e. numerical modelling, materials research and design and testing of an actual magnetic refrigeration device.

Possible projects could be:

  • Assisting in developing a detailed numerical model in Fortran of the Active Magnetic Regenerator (numerical modelling)

  • Synthesizing and manufacturing plates of magnocaloric ceramic material (material research)

  • Performing parameter variations on the magnetic refrigeration test machine in order to study and find the optimal running parameters for the machine (machine research)

Page updated  by   28.05.2008


Anders Smith
Special Adviser
Fuel Cells and Solid State Chemistry (ABF)
Dir tel+45 46775846