Olav Galteland

+47 45665760 olav.galteland@sintef.no olav@galte.land Njårds Vei 8C, 1412 Sofiemyr
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Experience

SINTEF Energy Research - Research Scientist March 2022 – Present
SINTEF Energy Research - Research Manager March 2023 – November 2023

Education

PhD in Chemistry (Thermodynamics) - NTNU August 2017 – May 2022
MSc in Chemistry - NTNU January 2016 – August 2017
BSc in Chemistry - NTNU August 2012 – January 2016

Publications

  1. Galteland, O., Hadler-Jacobsen, J., & Kauko, H. (2025). Techno-economic optimization of hybrid steam-electric energy systems with excess heat utilization and reserve market participation. arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.14252.
  2. Nunna, A. C., Galteland, O., Georges, L., & Zong, Y. (2025). Optimal control of a bio-based phase change material thermal energy storage for demand response. Energy Conversion and Management. doi: 10.1016/j.enconman.2024.119476.
  3. Vullum-Bruer, F., Galteland, O., Gouis, M., McDougall, N., & Tenhunen-Lunkka, A. (2024). Existing and Upcoming Challenges for Extending Electric Vehicle Battery Lifetime Through 2nd Life Applications. Journal of Circular Economy. doi: 10.55845/GTFN7220.
  4. Galteland, O., Gouis, M., Salgado-Beceiro, J., & Sevault, A. (2023). Fourteen months' operation of a 200 kWh latent heat storage pilot. In 2023 8th International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Technologies (SpliTech) (pp. 1-5). IEEE. doi: 10.23919/SpliTech58164.2023.10193589.
  5. Salgado-Beceiro, J., Galteland, O., & Sevault, A. (2022). Analysis of a latent heat storage unit using a pillow plate heat exchanger during real operations in a zero-emission building. In Eurosun 2022 proceedings.
  6. Galteland O, Rauter MT, Varughese KK, Bedeaux D and Kjelstrup S (2022). Defining the pressures of a fluid in a nanoporous, heterogeneous medium. Frontiers in Physics 10:866577. doi: 10.3389/fphy.2022.866577.
  7. Galteland, O., Rauter, M. T., Bratvold, M. S., Trinh, T. T., Bedeaux, D., & Kjelstrup, S. (2022). Local Thermodynamic Description of Isothermal Single-Phase Flow in Simple Porous Media. Transport in Porous Media, 1-21. doi: 10.1007/s11242-022-01844-x.
  8. Galteland, O., Bering, E., Kristiansen, K., Bedeaux, D., & Kjelstrup, S. (2022). Legendre-Fenchel transforms capture layering transitions in porous media. Nanoscale Advances. doi: 10.1039/D1NA00846C.
  9. Galteland, O., Bedeaux, D., Kjelstrup, S. (2021). Nanothermodynamic description and molecular simulation of a single-phase fluid in a slit pore. Nanomaterials, 11(1), 165. doi: 10.3390/nano11010165.
  10. Galteland, O., Bresme, F., Hafskjold, B. (2020). Solvent-Mediated Forces between Ellipsoidal Nanoparticles Adsorbed at Liquid–Vapor Interfaces. Langmuir, 36(48), 14530-14538. doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c02243.
  11. Rauter, M. T., Galteland, O., Erdős, M., Moultos, O. A., Vlugt, T. J., Schnell, S. K., Bedeaux, D., Kjelstrup, S. (2020). Two-phase equilibrium conditions in nanopores. Nanomaterials, 10(4), 608. doi: 10.3390/nano10040608.
  12. Erdős, M., Galteland, O., Bedeaux, D., Kjelstrup, S., Moultos, O. A., Vlugt, T. J. (2020). Gibbs ensemble Monte Carlo simulation of fluids in confinement: Relation between the differential and integral pressures. Nanomaterials, 10(2), 293. doi: 10.3390/nano10020293.
  13. Galteland, O., Bedeaux, D., Hafskjold, B., Kjelstrup, S. (2019). Pressures inside a nano-porous medium. The case of a single phase fluid. Frontiers in Physics, 7, 60. doi: 10.3389/fphy.2019.00060.
  14. Kjelstrup, S., Bedeaux, D., Hansen, A., Hafskjold, B., Galteland, O. (2019). Non-isothermal transport of multi-phase fluids in porous media. Constitutive equations. Frontiers in Physics, 6, 150. doi: 10.3389/fphy.2018.00150.
  15. Kjelstrup, S., Bedeaux, D., Hansen, A., Hafskjold, B., Galteland, O. (2018). Non-isothermal transport of multi-phase fluids in porous media. The entropy production. Frontiers in Physics, 6, 126. doi: 10.3389/fphy.2018.00126.

Patent

Inventors: Sevault, A., Galteland, O., Rotan, M., Sæterli, R., Vullum-Bruer, F. "Method and system for estimating a state-of-charge of phase change material storage systems". Granted 05.05.2025. Norwegian Patent No. 348703.

Award

Young Author's Award, Kyoto International Forum for Environment and Energy, Japan (2017).