- Give knowledge of current and emerging technologies for conversion of biomass to energy carriers, such as biogas, biodiesel, bioethanol, or direct conversion to electricity and heat.
- Give an overview of biomass resources, availability of biomass (wastes, industrial and agricultural residues), and potential for conversion of biomass to energy.
- Give perspectives for utilisation of biomass to bioenergy production at national and global level, as well as the sustainability of the utilisation technologies.
- Give insight to the most important biotechnological and thermochemical methods for bioenergy/biofuels production. Both theoretical knowledge(through lectures and project work) and practical experience (through lab-experiments – project) will be achieved. A field trip to a biofuel plant will couple the theoretical learning with the real applications. En studerende, der fuldt ud har opfyldt kursets mål, vil kunne:

• Beskrive hovedtyper af biomasse, beregne bioenergi potentiale fra biomasse egenskaber og design bioomdannelse metoder til udnyttelse af bestemte former for biomasseressourcer
• Beskrive principperne for bio-kemiske processer til fremstilling af energi fra biomasse, såsom biogas, biodiesel, bioethanol og mikrobielle brændselsceller (MFC).
• Beskrive principperne i de fysisk-kemiske processer, såsom forgasning og forbrænding til omstilling biomasse til energi,
• Forklare konkurrencedygtige mikrobielle konverteringer under forskellige redoxforhold og hvordan miljømæssige parametre påvirker mikrobiel vækst, og dentificere parametre for procesoptimering
• Forstå mikrobiel vækst kinetik og massebalancer, og definere en simpel matematisk model til at simulere en biologisk proces
• Anvende viden i bioteknologiske og termo-kemiske principper for at designe et bioraffinaderi koncept
• Kombiner og udnytte den viden der er opnået i løbet af kurset for at foreslå nye koncepter / processer til bioteknologiske anvendelser. Det skal ske ved at udarbejde en "Videnskabelig projektforslag
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Overview and perspectives in biomass resources
Overview of technologies for conversion of biomass to energy
Biomass chemistry
Microorganisms as biocatalysts in the biological processe
Biogas process: principles and applications
Bioethanol production: process technology
Microbial fuel cell (MFC): principles and future perspectives
Combustion: principles and applications
Gasification: principles and future perspectives
Biorefineries There might be some extra lab work outside course scheduled hours which will be limited and agreed between teachers and students. 01. februar, 2017