Anaerobic Digestion technology group at Aarhus University
Group Leader: Professor Henrik B Møller
Postdocs: Marzieh Ghorbani and Cristiane Romio
PhD’s: Marzin Kozera and Yrsa Larsson
The research within the Anaerobic digestion (AD) group is focused on improving biogas production and covers technologies that can increase gas production, improve impact on greenhouse gas emissions and optimize use of digestate and biogas. The research covers pre-treatment, new innovative digester design, improved process understanding, up-stream and downstream processes as well as process kinetics, greenhouse gases, value of the digestate as fertilizer and separation technologies. The research covers both basic research and final application with a strong collaboration with industry.
The AD research group has a very well-developed research infrastructure and has its own biogas plant with a 1200 m3 reactor and a 3500 m3 reactor. Besides this there is several pilot and lab reactors. The plant consists of two reactors of 10 m3, two reactors of 30 m3, one 10 m3 fixed film reactor, four reactors of 15 L, four reactors of 200 L and many smaller digesters.
The successful candidate (DC11) will be part of the Anaerobic Digestion group.
Picture 1. Biogas facility for test and research
Picture 2. Research digesters at 10 and 30 m3
Picture 3. Laboratory digesters
Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University
At the Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Denmark, we study interactions between soil, plants, animals, humans, and the environment in different agroecosystems for the production of food, feed, biomaterials, and energy. Thus, we contribute to both fundamental knowledge generation and the attainment of sustainable production systems via state-of-the-art research, contracted policy advice, and education. We offer state-of-the-art laboratory, greenhouse, semi-field, and field-scale research facilities, advanced computing capacities as well as an extensive national and international researcher network. The department has a staff of approximately 275 people, including 56 senior academics, 37 junior researchers and postdocs, and 60 PhD students. More information can be found here.
The successful candidate (DC10) will be part of a Soil Physics and Hydropedology research environment focusing on understanding various soil physico-chemical and biological processes as well as achieving quantitative insight into the spatial distribution of soil characteristics on a local, regional and national scale. You will be part of a research team working on sustaining a healthy, functional wetland mitigating leaching of pollutants from agricultural drainage and greenhouse gas emissions. The candidate will work experimentally in both laboratory and field. The focus will particularly be on exploring new constructed wetland systems as nature based solutions on efficient pesticides removal from agricultural drainage. We expect that the candidate will report research results in high-impact scientific journals and support preparing proposals.
