PhD in Process, Energy, and Automation Engineering
Programme information
- Duration: 3 years, full time
- Campus: Porsgrunn
- Teaching Language: English
- Credits: 180
- How to apply: How to apply
Applicants must have an excellent command of written and spoken English. Norwegian or another Scandinavian language will be an advantage. Applicants must have achieved grade B or above to qualify for the programme. Please find more information in the specific job advertisement when PhD-positions are available
Applicants must hold a Master of Science degree relevant to our research projects.
About the programme
The aim of the PhD programme is to educate candidates with knowledge and skills that make them competent to improve production processes and reduce environmental impacts of such processes. This may be achieved through new or modified equipment and procedures, and through improved process control. The ultimate goal is to increase the industrial sustainability.
The successful candidate will typically find employment in companies, universities or research institutes working on design, operation, control and measurements of industrial processes.
Academic content
The PhD programme activities are the backbone of the research conducted at the faculty. The research done by the PhD students is an integral part of the activities in the five faculty research groups. The PhD program comprises implementation of independent research work in active cooperation with supervisors and other researchers, an approved training component, participation in active research groups and academic dissemination that is closely relating to the ongoing PhD work.
The aim of the PhD program is to educate candidates of the highest international standards who can acquire knowledge, skills and general competence to carry out high-level research suitable for publication in leading academic journals and other outlets. Our candidates should be capable of addressing research issues important to both academia and business practice.
Study Plan
A studyplan describes the content, structure and organization of a study programme. To each study plan there is a set of subject plans that describes the different subjects. In the subject plan you will also find a reading list. Below you will find a study modell that shows you which subjects that are taught each term. In the study model you'll also find links to each subject plan.
Link to the latest published study planElective courses
- Our elective courses
Our elective PhD courses are currently not published on our webpage. Please ask the PhD coordinator Mariken Kjøhl-Røsand to receive information about our elective courses.
Doctoral projects and candidates
Research groups
PhD students enrolled in the program are involved in one of the following research groups:
- Energy and CO2 capture (ECC)
- Hydro Power, Transmission and Distribution
- Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technologies (SMART)
- Telemark Modeling and Control Centre (TMCC)
- Telemark Process Safety, Combustion and Explosion Laboratory (TPSCEL)
Examples of research areas are (in alphabetic order):
- Alternative fuels
- Catalysis
- Biogas production
- Chemometrics
- CO2 capture
- Gasification
- High-voltage power systems
- Hydrogen safety
- Hydro power
- Multiphase flow processes
- Process control
- Sensor technology
- Smart houses
The faculty research groups cooperate with many international partners, mainly through joint research projects.
Campus
The PhD research fellows in Process-, Energy-, and Automation Engineering are mainly employed at one of our departments and administrated at the Faculty of Technology, Natural Sciences and Maritime Sciences at Campus Porsgrunn. Porsgrunn is a middle-sized city in Norway, and the campus is surrounded by sport facilities including soccer pitches, a stadium, tennis hall, swimming pool, skate park, handball court and horseback riding facilities. Campus is also close to the city centre, student residences, train station and a beautiful forest with way-marked walking paths (Norwegians loves nature and it is normal to go for a walk)
