The Department of Chemistry and Bioscience has world class laboratory facilities which is a key element in the research in Chemical Engineering. This includes excellent research infrastructures for chemical analysis, material synthesis, characterization and testing and reactor facilities for water purification, degradation of polymeric and composite materials, biomass conversion, and super critical CO2 extraction.

Highlighting some of our core equipment:

SITEC PVT CELL             

PVT-cell with a variable volume (11-61 ml) and full visualization of the sample volume this PVT-cell allows for studies of phase equilibria in the range from ambient condition to 500 bar and 200 oC.

RAMAN                             

Raman RXN1 spectrometer (Kaiser Optics, Ltd) with 785 nm laser, fiber connection and several probes allowing to acquire spectra with (immersion probe) and without (non-contact probe) interaction with samples. Can be used for solid and liquid samples as well as with powders.

SITEC CO2 EXTRACTOR 

Supercritical CO2 extractor with a volume of 345 ml and operating range from ambient to 500 bar and 200 oC. Applicable for the use of supercritical CO2 as a benign solvent compared to conventional organic solvents.

SITEC BIOMASS REACTOR  

This 99ml reactor system is designed for injection of water and slurries into an already heated reaction chamber to allow for fast heating of reactants. This novel design allows for investigation of reactions in near and supercritical water with a much better control of pressure, and reaction time than traditional batch reactors. Operating window is ambient to 300 bar and 400 oC.

NIR                                 

Several NIR spectrometers including lab scale Quant (Q-Interline) which can work both for reflectance and transmittance in the range of 1000-2500 nm and two handheld spectrometers from Hyspex (900-1800 nm and 1800-2500 nm)

The group of Chemical Engineering has many both Danish and international collaborations partners from industry, the public sector, research institutions and universities. The collaboration ranges from direct research collaboration with single companies to large national and international research project consortiums consisting of numerous partners.

A selection of our business partners:

• Rambøll Danmark A/S
• Total E&P Danmark A/S
• Mouritsen A/S
• Solvay Specialty Polymers
• Biofuel Technology A/S
• Arla
• Dupont
• Unisense A/S
• Sulfilogger A/S
• LiqTech
• Dansk Materiale Netværk
• Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy
• Aquarden
• Glycom
• ZPD A/S
• Aquaporin
• Silhorko-Eurowater
• FORCE Technology
• Teknologisk Institut
• COWI
• NIRAS A/S

Academic collaborators:

• Technical University of Denmark
• Chalmers University of Technology
• China University of Petroleum
• Federal University of Paraná
• University of the Basque Country
• NTNU
• University of Guanajuato
• University of Illinois
• MIT Energy Initiative
• Xi’an Jiaotong University

Faculty

• Rudi P. Nielsen
• Morten E. Simonsen
• Sergey V. Kucheryavskiy
• Jens Muff
• Marco Maschietti
• Haoshui Yu

PostDoc and PhD Students

• Alaa Khalil
• Khalil Kashefi
• Nikos Montesantos
• Akam Petersen
• Asifa Awan
• Charlotte O. Wilhelmsen
• Fernando R. Montero Revelo
• Iveth A. Romero Logrono
• Seyed Mojtaba Alirahmi
• Tanzila Sharker