About UNI MISKOLC

University of Miskolc

The Predecessor of University of Miskolc was established in 1735 in the town of Selmecbanya (in the region of Slovakia present day) like a school of mining and metallurgy (Bergschule). In the year 1945 the legal successor of the University (University of Heavy Indsutry) was moved to Miskolc, and was established the Faculty of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, and years after the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Law, Economics, Arts, Health Care Studies and Music. It was created a university unique with 85 hectares in the country.

The Natural Gas Engineering Department of the University of Miskolc (which was founded in 1993) is the only academic institution in Hungary responsible for education and training in natural gas engineering. Our education and research activities cover the whole range of the natural gas supply, from transmission via storage to distribution including the gas market and gas utilization. Further courses offered by the Department include hybrid natural gas and renewable systems, geothermal energy, the production and utilisation of biomass, biogas, and solar energy. The research work of the Department, i.e. fluid engineering and transport processes in the CH industry, is one of the pillars of our professional activities.

In the natural gas engineering training laboratory of the Department the students are able to measure various parameters (nominal heat output, efficiency, flue gas composition, etc.) of gas appliances (such as gas-cookers, gas fired convection heaters, boilers and instantaneous water heaters) with modern devices. It also accommodates a gas engineering information centre comprising a traditional professional and CD library.

The main research fields of the Natural Gas Engineering Department:

• Simulation of natural gas systems
• Natural gas demand and supply, gas market
• The safety of gas supply
• Underground gas storage
• Fluid dynamics research
• Geothermal energy production
• Renewable energy sources (principally geothermal energy, solar energy, biogas and vegetable biomass)