Radical innovation. Under this headline, 275 engineering students explained why their ideas have the potential to disrupt an entire industry. They made their pitches last week at the Applied Innovation in Engineering 2022 event in Stakladen at Aarhus University (AU).

A future society powered by sustainable energy sources will need storage technologies and sustainable fuels, as well as chemicals with high energy density for carbon-based industries and infrastructure. Here, Power-to-X technologies play a crucial role.

Researchers from Aarhus University are heading a new, international project to develop a process that enables the production of biofuels based on plant and wood residues for air traffic and heavy transport. The technology can be up and running and producing drop-in biofuels by 2030.

The green transition is about much more than energy and fuel, and large parts of industry are still entirely dependent on fossil raw materials. Chemical and biotechnological advances are vital for a sustainable future. Zheng Guo is a new professor in enzyme technology; a technology that will play a major role in the green society of the future.

Morten Dam Rasmussen began his career as a child on his grandparents’ farm. Today, he can look back on years of work researching milking techniques and the health of dairy cattle - work that has had a huge impact on the development of modern milking technology.

The curve is only heading in one direction for engineering at Aarhus University. In just two years, total revenue has more than doubled, external grants have increased by 17 per cent, and the number of engineering students has grown to more than 4000.

Aarhus University would like to congratulate all the newly graduated MSc and BSc in engineering students.

A new research project will use renewable energy from local, privately owned wind turbines to improve the efficiency of Danish biogas production at large scale. The target is a 100 per cent green gas grid.

For the first time, we can now tell the difference between a wide range of plastic types and thereby separate plastics according to their chemical composition. This is absolutely ground-breaking and it will increase the rate of recycling of plastics immensely. The technology has already been tested at pilot scale and it will be implemented at an industrial scale in spring 2022.

A new research project aims to develop a photocatalytic process that can transform the hard-to-degrade and harmful environmental toxins PFAS into harmless substances. This, however, is only the first step for the research group behind the new tech in a journey towards a world without environmental toxins.