Current projects

The project “Sustainable Co-Production of Pyrolysis Bio-Oil for Fuel and Bio-Char for Carbon Sequestration from Bioresidues” (BIOCHAR) aims at developing a new conversion technology for biofuel or power generation and a new method to increase soil C sequestration to reduce climate change.

The project “BioChar: Climate saving soils” aims at raising the awareness and building confidence in biochar as a way of capturing carbon in a stabilised form and increasing soil quality and ‘health’, with attendant benefits to agriculture.

The project aims at promoting the use of bioresources for energy use in Region Zealand assessing business potential of various suggested projects as well as facilitating actual bioenergy initiatives

Bioenergy and manure technology. The overall goal of this project is to evaluate the whole-chain GHG abatement potential of different conversion technologies, including biogas treatment of slurry and plant material, and combustion of a separated fibre fraction. Activities include assessment of soil N cycling and greenhouse gas emissions after application of anaerobically digested manure for soil fertility purposes. Specific aim is to describe and quantify the emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O) after application of bio-energy residues to soil.

The wealth created in the World over the last century is based on easy access to inexpensive fossil fuels. This era is coming to an end. The resources are limited and the demand from everywhere in the world is growing rapidly. At the same time, it is becoming increasingly clear that the emission of CO2 that follows the use of fossil fuels is threatening the climate of the Earth. Arguably this makes the development of sustainable energy solutions the most important scientific and technical challenge of our time. It is the aim of the present proposal to contribute to the solution of these problems in selected areas. We will address the underlying scientific questions and use the insight gained to point to solutions to some of the technical problems.

The project aims at developing organic farming (OF) in such a way that it will be a leading actor within climate mitigation without compromising any environmental or animal welfare principles and values.

The “Climatic Change – Manipulation Experiments in Terrestrial Ecosystems (CLIMMANI) – is a European cross national networking activity bringing together research groups in Europe working with Climate Change experiments. The network is funded by the European Science Foundation (ESF)

ETSAP - Energy Technology Systems Analysis Programme is the IEA Implementation Agreement which is known for the development and use of the MARKAL and TIMES models for optimisation of energy technology choice

The project aims to study and assess the impact of changes in precipitation patterns and extreme events on ecosystem functioning and is funded by the DTU Climate Centre.

ENSYMORA is a research project supported by the Danish Council for Strategic Research under the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation. The project is part of the Council's research stream "Strategic research in sustainable energy and environment".

GENECO is a multidisciplinary project on effects to plants from climate change. The plants are cultivated in Risø DTU’s advanced climate change phytotron that allows for precise imitating of climate scenarios.

Rechargeable lithium batteries in electrical or hybrid electrical vehicles are of increasing interest for the transportation sector.

The IMECC project aims to build the infrastructure for a coordinated, calibrated and accessible dataset for characterizing the carbon balance of Europe .

An Integrated Network on Climate Research Activities on Shrubland Ecosystems – INCREASE – is an EU-funded infrastructure of six large-scale climate change experiments and one phytotron (RERAF) designed to study climate change effects on shrublands.

The project aims at studying causes and consequences of aerobically produced methane in plant matter.

Methane is the second most important greenhouse gas and cause a radiative forcing ca. 1/3 of that of carbon dioxide. Closing the global methane budget is challenging and was recently complicated even further by surprising findings of methane release from plant matter at oxidizing conditions in a series of experiments. 

NitroEurope - or NEU for short - is a developing effort for integrated European research into the nitrogen cycle with a particular focus on:
Multiple components of the nitrogen cycle, Flux measurements, Experimental manipulation of terrestrial ecosystems, Modelling and Consideration of scenarios of past and present conditions.

OPTIMATE is a collaborative research and demonstration project co-funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme (DG Energy)

Phosphorus is an essential element for the biosphere and is also a finite resource. An improved efficiency of phosphate uptake by crops will reduce the pressure on the limited phosphate fertilizer resources and on the aquatic environment.

The project on “Development of a research based methodology for assessment of energy technologies sustainability in relation to climate change” – is a Danish research project aiming at improving the methodologies to assess the sustainability of energy technologies through Life cycling analyses by use of recent research results on impact. The project is supported by the VKR foundation.

RES4LESS is initiated in 2011 under the European Union’s Intelligent Energy- Europe Programme and is sponsored by the Executive Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation (EACI). The project aims to develop cost effective deployment of RES in the period up to 2020 and 2030 by making use of cross-border cooperation mechanisms, as described in the Renewable Energy Directive

This project explores the interaction between risky supply, stochastic demand and the organisation of power markets and how these combine to determine the risk to supply security and adequacy – the risk of a blackout.

The project “Strategies for Organic and Low-input Integrated Breeding and Management” (SOLIBAM) aims at developing specific and novel breeding approaches integrated with management practices to improve the performance, quality, sustainability and stability of crops adapted to organic and low-input systems, in their diversity in Europe and taking into account small-scale farms in Africa.

Research in the field of DG/RES in the EU helped to understand the economic impact of an increasing DG/RES deployment on the electricity system. The Systems Analysis Division was a partner in three of these projects, which were supported by the 5th Framework Programme and Intelligent Energy Europe between 2002 and 2008.

The objectives of the project is to contribute to improved use of waste for energy or material recycling integrating economic and environmental considerations including resource scarcity.

In this project, a novel approach to assess net stand carbon uptake is used. The approach has an interdisciplinary character as it introduces the concept of water use efficiency (WUE), traditionally used for agricultural yield estimations and drought tolerance of plants, in the field of biosphere carbon cycling and greenhouse gas mitigation. The method will enable the assessment of carbon and water fluxes of the trees separately in the ecosystem and thus is an important key in understanding the carbon flux variability and how this is influenced by climate and other environmental factors.