En dyb forståelse for den mikrobielle sammensætning i biogasreaktorer er nøglen til at forbedre produktionen af fornybar biogas. Dette projekt vil undersøge de mikrobielle samfund på 13 biogasanlæg, og deres funktioner og mikrobielle netværk vil kortlægges. Der vil være særligt fokus på hyppigt forekommende men ukendte arter, og arter som kan agere som indikator for problemer eller dårlige forhold i reaktorerne. Den nye viden vil bidrage til en optimeret biogasproduktion og udvidet monitorering.

Dette projekt vil systematisk evaluere interaktionen mellem terapeutiske peptider (såsom insulin) og permeationsforstærkere (såsom sodiumcaprate eller C10) under forskellige fysiologiske forhold og dermed frembringe viden om, hvordan man optimerer interaktionen og forbedrer den orale biotilgængelighed for peptidlægemidler. Resultater fra dette mekanistiske studie vil guide og accelerere udviklingen af orale peptid-/proteinlægemidler og dermed adressere det uopfyldte markedsbehov.

Fair Match vil bidrage til en mere retfærdig og lige behandling af kandidater og arbejdspladser og gøre det lettere for kandidater at finde job og for arbejdspladser at finde kandidater. FairMatch udvikler et fairness-dashboard og kandidat/job anbefalingsalgoritmer, der tager højde for flersidet fairness, og fremmer state-of-the-art forskning inden for "fair AI". Jobindex forventer, at FairMatch vil bidrage til vækst i omsætning og markedsandele samt til øget vækst og velfærd i samfundet.

Målet med det foreslåede erhvervs-PhD-projekt er at udvikle avancerede bæredygtige aluminium (Al) busbar løsninger til højspændings (HV) strømdistribution i elektriske køretøjer (EV'er). Dette mål vil blive opnået gennem en kombination af dybtgående højopløsnings mikrostrukturell karakterisering af nyudviklede Al-busbarlegeringer og applikationsspecifik testing ved realistiske EV-strømfordelingsforhold. En ny Al busbarlegering, der rummer minimum 40 vægt% genanvendt Al vil blive udviklet.

Probiotika kan mindske brugen af antibiotika og øge foderudnyttelsen i svineproduktion. Dog er de specifikke bakterielle stammer og metabolske veje forbundet med øget sundhed og produktivitet ikke fuldt ud forstået. Dette projekt vil anvende maskinlæring på prøver fra kommercielle gårde til at klarlægge forbindelsen mellem mikrobiom, sundhed og produktivitet. Målet med projektet er at anvende denne viden til at udvikle probiotika til en mere bæredygtig og miljøvenlig kødproduktion.

Cartilage intermediate layer protein (CILP) er et ekstracellulært bindevævsprotein, der er stærkt opreguleret i hjertet under hjertesygdom. Selvom sammenhængen mellem CILP og hjertefibrose er stærk, er den biologiske rolle og den molekylære mekanisme uklar, og der er uenighed om, hvorvidt CILP har gavnlige eller skadelige virkninger på hjertefunktionen. Dette forslag vil afklare, om hæmning eller øgning af CILP kunne potentielt være en god behandlingsstrategi for patienter med hjertesvigt.

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Access to clean water is a major global issue. Saline and wastewater can be returned to high quality freshwater through reverse osmosis (RO) desalination. The main operational challenge for this process is scaling and biofouling, which decreases RO water recovery and increases energy- and chemical consumption. Conventional RO systems are operated in continuous mode with constant brine salinity. In such systems, fouling organisms adapt and form biofilms on the RO membrane. Operating RO systems in batch mode with fluctuating salinity and intermittent brine discharge can reduce water and energy consumption. However, few such installations exist, and it is not known if batch RO operation can be used to eradicate biofouling. We hypothesize that, with appropriate controls, batch operation of RO will minimize biofouling as alternating salinity hinders the biofilm-forming microorganism´s ability to adapt and proliferate. The aim of BE-SALT is to provide mechanistic insight into biofouling and scaling under fluctuating salt stress implement this knowledge into design and optimization of sensor-based operation of batch RO systems and reduce operational cost (water, energy, chemicals) by >15% compared to continuous RO systems, while enabling high water recovery rates (>75 %) demonstrate the concept in pilot scale and at an end-user Our vision is to lead the way for process design and water/energy efficient operation of RO systems for clean water production.

Floating wind energy is a cornerstone of a carbon-free electricity supply. The Danish offshore wind industry is in a key position to play a leading role in the coming market, which is estimated to exceed 16.5 GW by 2030. In FloatLab, DTU, DHI, Ørsted, Siemens-Gamesa Renewable Energies, Stiesdal Offshore Technologies and STROMNING collaborate to secure a strong Danish market share through reduced time-to-market, reduced development costs (DEVEX) and a de-risked design method based on targeted lab tests and digital twin models. The project results are anchored in six Key Innovations. During the project, 4 lab-scale campaigns are conducted, tackling a total of 7 Fundamental Unknowns for design of floating wind turbine support structures. Each campaign is designed as a rapid prototyping of a digital –twin-supported pre-simulate – test – re-simulate approach. The digital twin model complexity increases for each campaign, starting in year 1 with existing models and relatively low model fidelities and ending in year 4 with models that span real time with high levels of accuracy. The Fundamental Unknowns have been chosen to reflect the current needs of the industry partners. They span 3D storm waves with swell, dynamic mooring, damping from heave plates, nonlinear hydrostatic loads of partially submerged cylinders, turbine operation in strong turbulence, gusts and shear, slamming loads on buoyancy tanks and validation against full scale data.

A large portion of the total energy consumption is used for industrial heating, mostly provided by natural gas and coal. This project will contribute to carbon neutrality by promoting the electrification of industrial heating. The most efficient heat processes require radiofrequency generators which are in turn inefficient because they are based on old technology. Based on previous promising results, we will utilize new concepts to develop two full-scale demonstrators. The demonstrators will outperform existing technology and will be tested and employed for production at Topsil, on machines for producing ultra-pure silicon crystals, and at Kallesoe, on machines for producing cross-laminated wood. Our technology will remove a large part of the existing economical barriers that have hindered RF technology from being economically attractive. Moreover, these two applications also play strategic societal roles in reaching carbon neutrality. Ultra-pure silicon is required for the manufacturing of essential equipment for the general electrification of our society, and cross-laminated wood enables the sustainable development of civil infrastructure as a substitute for cement. Considering that RF industrial heating is powered by electrical energy and that Denmark exports wind energy and wind-energy technologies, investing in RF industrial heating is a way of supporting Danish energy independence while promoting national industry and the development of renewable energy sources.

PURfection will pursue total recyclability of the high-performance and difficult to replace plastic material polyurethane (PUR). Its excellent performance and extensive range of applications have resulted in 24 m tones of PUR being produced each year, a number that is predicted to grow by 7% the coming years. Today’s PUR recycling methods have reached their final development stage rendering 70% of all future PUR waste destined for landfilling or incineration. PURfections predecessor, RePURpose, successfully identified both key infliction points in the existing PUR value chain and developed novel recycling technology. PURfection will convert these findings to innovation by implementing closed-loop recycling for PUR production spill and deliver proof-of-concept for full recycling of EoL PUR waste streams. All developed solutions will be evaluated using techno-economic analysis and life-cycle-assessment tools and become part of proving new value chains and business models for PUR recycling. PURfection holds the potential to eliminate 7% of the total Danish CO2-eq emissions from incineration of plastic waste, while simultaneously aiding the consortium partners to expand their market shares of 5%, corresponding to double-digit m EUR in value capture. With an onset at kilogram scale, PURfection will collect, chemically deconstruct, and separate PUR waste streams into valuable chemical building blocks, that will reenter the production of new PUR products.

The GameForGreen project aims to solve the growing global need for reducing household and organisational CO2 emissions through democratic involvement and sustainable consumption. The development of an innovative digital game platform aims to enable consultants, municipalities, companies and organisations to develop and distribute serious games that teach sustainable behaviour to e.g. households, public institutions, housing associations, or employees. Game creators can create games that enable players to choose actions, see their environmental impact, and receive a score based in their consumption practice. The project collaborators include global digital game developer Actee, prominent researchers from Roskilde University, 3 municipalities, sustainability consultants, HOFOR as a utility provider and Implement as a consultant company. The GameForGreen will collect data from the games on the platform and compare these to quantitative real-world data on player consumption of resources collected through ethnographic studies. The data will be fed back to the platform through unique data-compilation, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data analytics to explore which game elements can lead to a desirable changed behaviour. GameForGreen will enable new business models for Actee with an influx of customers to their ecosystem. On a societal level, GameForGreen will bridge between regulators and target demographics by teaching households sustainable consumption behaviour.

We need to create value by recycling our emissions. Not only due to resource scarcity, but also to create local circular regenerative bioeconomies that restore the planetary boundaries and health. SeaFree will transform emissions into revenue streams by developing a novel eco-industrial symbiosis, integrating an innovative seaweed production system – the Seaweed Synergy Plug’N’Play solution - into existing land-based Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS) producing both fresh and storage stable green seaweed and emission free fish and shrimps. The SeaFree project moves the seafood sector into the era of the regenerative circular economy enabling zero emission land-based seafood production. The innovative design of the Seaweed Synergy Plug’N’Play solution allows for Heat, CO2 and nutrient Emission Capture and Utilisation (HECU) into seaweed production, expanding RAS into Integrated Multitrophic Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (IMRAS). Innovative food products and every day meal recipes with green seaweed will be developed with focus on taste and nutritional quality. The recipes and products will be distributed and disseminated via existing consumer channels, and new markets will be opened for seaweed food supplements and clinical nutrition. Consumer surveys will evaluate transition of societal readiness. Integral system analysis will document the SeaFree sustainability and techno-economy, and develop consumer readiness and market projections scenarios.

Increased digitalisation is key to combatting climate change, with potentially 10-60% reductions of energy consumption and CO2 emissions. The challenge to harvesting these benefits is the state of digital technologies today, where hard physical limits of miniaturisation of electronic chips have been met. This in turn has brought with it a saturation of serial data speeds, and a looming explosion in overall internet energy consumption. It is thus increasingly urgent to develop a new greener internet. So, to ensure the essential future digitalisation, the solution is to build a better critical communications infrastructure that provides higher data capacities, offers greater accessibility, supports critical functions, ensures secure online interactions, and is more energy-efficient. To bring these features to the whole network infrastructure, GreenCOM is structured as an innovation platform forming an ecosystem of companies, universities, industrial associations and with direct links to authorities. GreenCOM will develop 30 specific technologies supporting the overall network, ranging from physical chips and laser sources, over network protocols, to internet services and a green ICT certificate. 91% of the technologies are tech transfer, with industrial partners ready to implement them. GreenCOM expects to reduce the energy consumption in DK with about 11%, and increase revenue for partners with 358 MDKK, and generate 183 FTE jobs whilst doing so.

HeatCheck aims to develop a scalable, commercial-grade, open-source, AI-driven toolchain that merges meter data with ubiquitous wireless heat cost allocator data to optimize heating systems in apartment buildings. District heating operators have focused on supply temperatures and flows to satisfy various demand profiles. However, they typically overlook end-users and substations as beyond their control. Thus, buildings are bottlenecks in the transition to low-temperature district heating. The HeatCheck toolchain empowers building owners to operate apartment buildings with unprecedented efficiency, in turn, paving the path for low-risk, near-term investments in renewable energy sources and large-scale investments in heat pumps in district heating networks. Ista and Techem controls roughly two-thirds of the Danish market for allocating heat costs in apartments, and combined provide heat metering in 25 million apartments globally. HeatCheck seeks to leverage that massive data to detect and diagnose faulty heating systems automatically, optimize central controls to constrain heat losses and minimize harm from misuse, improve service offerings using digital-twin-based analytics and actively shift peak loads. The HeatCheck project provides a unique opportunity for heat cost allocation companies, district heating companies, building operators and research institutions to develop new services generating novel revenue streams and ensuring a cost-effective green transition.