The Research Centre for Sustainable Energy (RCSE) was created in order to play a key role in research and technological development activities in the field of sustainable energy within Cyprus and at international level with the aim of contributing to the achievement of the relevant energy and environment objectives set out by Europe. In particular, the RCSE strives to become a centre of excellence in energy that will act as a structure where world-standard R&D work can be performed, in terms of measurable scientific production (including training) and/or technological innovation. The selected thematic priorities include:
- Renewable energy sources (RES) with an emphasis on solar energy;
- Distributed generation and new technologies for electrical power systems;
- Smart electricity networks;
- Enabling technologies including energy storage and ICT, which are necessary for developing a smart grid environment;
- Energy efficiency and energy saving;
- Energy efficient buildings;
- Energy Policy and Energy economics;
- Education and awareness work on sustainable energy matters and promotion of active involvement of consumers in local energy production using RES.
Expertise offered:
Design and mathematical modelling of energy systems within an engineering thermodynamics context, including:
- fuel cell systems, electrolyzer, fuel processing, hybrid fuel cell-turbine systems, LNG-fuelled power systems, combined-cooling-heating-and-power systems, micro-combined-heat-and-power systems,
- process integration, exergy analysis, thermoeconomic optimization.
Topic : EE13, LCE2, LCE8, LCE17
