Research in the Bioenergy group at DTU Environment

Research in the Bioenergy group at DTU Environment is dealing with the biological conversion of organic matter to either energy carriers such as biogas, bioethanol and biohydrogen by anaerobic biotechnological methods or to direct electricity production by microbial fuel cells. Research spans from fundamental work on areas such as metabolic pathways, microbial enrichments, isolations and characterisation, to more applied issues, such as process monitoring, optimization and control, reactor design and new biotechnological production concepts.

  • The main research topics are: 
  • Biogas process (process imbalances, process optimization, modelling using ADM1, on-line VFA sensor, control strategies, codigestion, pretreatment, energy crops, wastewater treatment).
  • Biohydrogen (pure and mixed-culture dark fermentation at -thermophilic conditions, using pure substrates and organic wastes,, electricity assisted biohydrogen production, isolation and characterization of hydrogen producers).
  • Contact person: Irini Angelidaki
    Email: ria@env.dtu.dk
    Phone: +45 45 25 14 29       
    Fax: +45 45 93 28 50
    Website: www.env.dtu.dk
    Anaerobic Microbiology (microbial ecology of natural and artificially created anaerobic environments, microbiological methods for enrichment and isolation of strict anaerobe, , classical and molecular methods for identification of complex microbial communities, anaerobic methabolic pathways).
    Microbial Fuel Cell (lignocellulosic waste to energy, improved MFC configuration, in-situ biosensor, wastewater treatment, xylose degradation)
  • Biorefinery (integrated production of food, energy carriers, and other useful by-products, life-cycle analysis).