About this presentation

related to ATMOsphere America 2014
published on 19 June 2014
19 pages
2 MB

Rolf Christensen from Alfa Laval introduces his presentation with a general overview of Alfa Laval’s activities in the refrigeration sector and continues by comparing traditional separator designs with the Alfa Lava’s U-Turn separator while highlighting the technical and operational advantages of the latter. He goes on to present data from Alfa Laval’s installations of U-Turn separators in North America and Europe in terms of resulting savings in energy consumption and refrigerant charge requirements.

About the speaker(s)

Rolf Christensen

 

Dr. Rolf Christensen holds a M.Sc. in Heat and Power Engineering and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Lund Institute of Technology. He also holds an Executive Master in Technology Management from Chalmers University. His professional experience includes three years as an Engineer in the merchant marines and over five years as a Consultant for heat and power plant engineering & energy conservation. For six years, Dr. Christensen also held a position as an Associate Professor in heat and power plant engineering at the Lund Institute of Technology. 

Dr. Christensen has been with Alfa Laval since 1998 and has worked in various specialist and management positions, such as Manager for the heat & mass transfer department, testing laboratory, new concept development and concept portfolio management. He has also held a position as a Business Development Manager for refrigeration and Product Portfolio Manager for industrial refrigeration. He has been driving the development of plate heat exchangers for transcritical CO₂ as well as plate heat exchangers for ammonia heat pumps and evaporation.