Nordic course

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Objectives Within the nordic countries large knowledge is available with respect to energy conversion and methods to study conversion of new challenging fuels. This knowledge is spread is not easily accessible to young researchers, i.e. PhD students. Large scale, lab scale and analytical methods are available, but not used optimally since insufficient knowledge is available on where the equipment is located and on the advantages and drawbacks these tools can have. By educating our PhD students within program with a “hands-on course”, these tools can become available for a large research community, networks will be formed and researchers will be trained on the highest level available. Often PhD students miss an overview of phenomena taking place in large scale facilities.  By combining specialism of different partners this overview can be obtained (see figure) At the end of the course participants should be able to critically assess research tools available in Europe and to be able to use them when valid. 16 s tudents participated in the whole sequence of courses to be able to gain a complete overview (10ETCS). The course consisted of several parts taking place as intensive courses at the different partners, i.e. AAU. DTU,NTNU,and CTH. Fuels were in semi-large scale facility at CTH. Fuels and ashes were collected and taken along through the course for further investigation. When possible, analyses were compared with lab scale experiments.