In December 2019 Dr. Hynek Roubík – Group leader of Biogas Research Team spent couple of weeks in Uppsala on Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Uppsala University as well as in RISE – Research Institutes of Sweden.
During his stay, Dr. Roubík had the opportunity to work with local experts, especially on the issue of biogas and its purification, use and management of organic waste, as well as the use of advanced analytical methods.
Uppsala (located around 70 km from Stockholm) is University City with Uppsala University being the oldest centre of higher education in Scandinavia.
During this visit, Dr. Hynek Roubík collaborated and visited various experts, such as Ake Nordberg (upgrading, Power-to gas), Girma Gebresenbet (application of biogas in Ethiopia and other African countries), Niclas Ericsson (Life Cycle Assessment and modelling of emissions from digestate storage), Ershad Ullah Khan (heat-driven membrane distillation, polygeneration and further applications of membrane distillation in biogas technology projects ), Pritam Kumar Panda (enhancement of biogas production from kitchen refuse using alkaline-microwave pretreatment and further application of bioinformatics in biogas research), Rajeev Ahuja (organic batteries produced from waste biomass), Ronnie Alsén (alumni network), Stefan Eriksson (research ethics and good research practice among classical as well as life sciences universities), Maria del Pilar Castillo (biological decomposition of organic material for biogas production), Henrik Olsson (applied biogas technology development in pilot and full scale) and others.
Uppsala University (Swedish: Uppsala universitet) is a research university in Uppsala, Sweden. Founded in 1477, it is the oldest university in Sweden and all of the Nordic countries still in operation. It ranks among the world's 100 best universities in several high-profile international rankings.
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, or Swedish Agricultural University (Swedish: Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet) (SLU) is a university in Sweden.
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB (RISE) is a Swedish state-owned research institute, collaborating together with universities, industry and the public sector to drive international competitive sustainable development and growth.
"Visit was supported by ESF project: Modernization of study and study programs, quality and counselling at CZU in Prague
Cesta byla podpořena z projektu ESF: Modernizace studia a studijních programů, kvalita a poradenství na ČZU v Praze, reg. č. CZ.02.2.69/0.0/0.0/16_015/
