The Professional Doctorate in Engineering (PDEng) programme Energy & Process Technology offers you a 2-year position combining post MSc education and a design project to be carried out at Triogen B.V.

The educational programme, carried out at the University of Twente, will have an in-depth and broadening character with ample attention for professional development and will be partly tailored to the design project. In collaboration with Triogen in Goor you will work on high level, creative new designs for complex issues.

The project - Particle deposition on a heat exchanger of an Organic Rankine Cycle using flue gas from the combustion of biomass or waste

• Background of the project: In various industrial processes, there is a huge amount of unused energy emitted in in the form of heat. This waste or residual heat can be converted into useable electricity by a process called Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC). Triogen B.V. of The Netherlands is developing and marketing such an ORC system, which is already deployed for heat contained in the flue gas of gas and Diesel engines. An important next application is the use of exhaust gas heat from the combustion of biomass and waste. When cooling these gasses, certain deposits originating from the combustion of the biomass/waste will arise on the surface of the exhaust gas heat exchanger.
• Your main goal is to develop and design an economically attractive and energy efficient solution for an adapted heat exchanger design and a cleaning system, taking into account the character of the deposit arising from fuels used in the market area of Triogen
• You make an inventory and characterization of possible deposits, modelling of the gas side flow in the heat exchanger, inventory of possible heat exchanger systems and design, possible cleaning methods and selection of the preferred method
• Your solution will be build and tested in actual operating conditions by Triogen, where the you will play a role in the evaluation of the results.

• You hold a MSc degree in of Mechanical Engineering or Chemical Engineering, or a related discipline;
• You have experience in the field;
• You have demonstrated affinity with design and multidisciplinary assignments;
• You have a passion for finding solutions for complex technological issues;
• You have excellent collaboration and communication skills;

You are self-starting and self-motivating, willing to take initiatives and feel the responsibility for your own project;Candidates with a non-Dutch qualification and who have not had secondary and tertiary education in English can only be admitted with an IELTS-test showing a total band score of at least 6.5, internet TOEFL test (TOEFL-iBT) showing a score of at least 90, or a Cambridge CAE-C (CPE). Dutch is a pre.

Please send the following documents before 31-10-2017 through the link below:

• Letter of motivation
• Curriculum vitae
• List with grades of courses attended
• References and, if applicable, a list of publications.

If you have any further questions about this vacancy of the PDEng programme in Energy & Process Technology, please contact Prof.dr.ir. G. Brem:

• Email: g.brem@utwente.nl
• Telephone: +31 (0)53 489 2561

We offer a very challenging position for two years in an inspiring multidisciplinary and international environment. In this time we will provide you with a tailor made post-master design programme that has an educational component (~50%) as well as a design project (~50%).

• A salary of € 1.828 gross per month;
• A holiday allowance of 8% of the gross annual salary and a year-end bonus of 8.3%;
• A solid pension scheme;
• Minimum of 29 holidays in case of full-time employment. 
• On successfully completing the programme, you will receive a certified degree. You will be entitled to use the academic degree PDEng and will be registered as a Technological Designer in the Dutch register kept by the Royal Institution of Engineers in the Netherlands (KIVI).

The University of Twente. We stand for life sciences and technology. High tech and human touch. Education and research that matter. New technology which leads change, innovation and progress in society. The University of Twente is the only campus university of the Netherlands; divided over five faculties we provide more than fifty educational programmes. We have a strong focus on personal development and talented researchers are given scope for carrying out groundbreaking research.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status. Because of our diversity values we do particularly support women to apply.

The Faculty of Engineering Technology (ET) is one of the five faculties of the University of Twente. ET combines Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering and Industrial Design Engineering. Our faculty has approximately 1800 bachelor and master students, 400 employees and 150 PhD candidates. The departments of the faculty cooperatively conduct the educational programmes and participate in interdisciplinary research projects, programmes and the research institutes: MIRA, CTIT, SBE  and IGS.