“1988-2016: 30 years of history of
IVC-SEP and CERE”
By
Georgios Kontogeorgis
Abstract:
"DTU has decided to use IVC-SEP as the backbone of a new initiative namely an Energy Resources Engineering Center (CERE) to ensure that DTU as a whole can act and perform efficiently within this important area. The new center will include all of the current activities within IVC-SEP and several new activities at other departments of DTU....In CERE we include oil and gas, CCS and geothermal energy but we do not limit the scope of the center to this. We want to underline that the generic research within applied thermodynamics will be brought forward and strengthened and the same is true for the non-energy related research such as mineral extraction, material science, food science and chemical product development. Furthermore the Faculty members joining the center at other departments of DTU will bring in new research topics"
(part of the Letter from the -then DTU Rektor- Lars Pallesen and Erling Stenby to the members of the consortium - published in CERE 2009 annual report)
As indicated above, CERE was created in 2009 as an extension and further development of IVC-SEP, a historical center that in one or the other form existed since 1980. Among other things, IVC-SEP pioneered a new industrial collaboration type called "consortium", an entirely unusual construction when it started.
This presentation will outline the history of the IVC-SEP/CERE center over more than three decades and explain the reasons that enabled the creation and the maintenance of the industrial consortium over so many years.
I will also present (some of) the most important scientific highlights, with emphasis to those for which the center is most known in academia world-wide and also those achievements which have been adopted by industry and are still in use today.
Some regrets, a few unanswered questions, comments on the CERE Alumne and thoughts about the future will end the presentation.