Students and researchers at Luleå University of Technology was there when U.S. Ambassador Mark Brzezinski came to visit LTU and participated in a round table discussion on Tuesday. Questions about renewable energy, exchange of researchers and students from Sweden and the US were discussed, but also climate change in the Arctic, which is the ambassadors primary concern.
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Lars Gunneriusson responsible for Yhe Master Programme in Sustainable Process Engineering at Luleå University of Technology who came in second place in Swedish Enterprise collaboration rankings.
A new graduate school has recently started within the framework of the government-designated strategic researchproject Bio4Energy. The school, in cooperation with industry, will provide students with the latest technical expertise on sustainable systems for energy and biorefining and entrepreneurship education. The school will be coordinated from LTU.
At a conference in Skellefteå in the last week, Lindsay Ohlin, PhD in Chemical Technology, won a price of SEK 20 000 for best presentation - chemical separation methods using zeolite.
It is the name of the mini-course given by the education programme Gemstone Technique at LTU. 12 high school students from Stockholm to Narvik took the chance to try out this noble art.
The start of Bio4Energy graduate go on Tuesday. On 19-20 March is one of the first software conference.
Since 2004, LTU and Boliden has worked closely with respect to research and education in the field the base metal metallurgy. It´s about refining the processes in the production of copper, lead, zinc, gold and silver.
In the subject of future skills and recruitment sat Kåre Kullerud from the University of Tromsø, Anders Sand from Luleå University of Technology, Jack Odegaard from SINTEF and Hans Tore Mikkelsen from Stjordal College in the discussion panel.
2011 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry Dan Shechtman today visited the Division of Sustainable Process Engineering.
The ongoing mining boom in northern Sweden is in focus as Finnish TV are doing a story on the Luleå University of Technology.
A new important step has been taken by researchers at Luleå University of Technology when it comes to clean synthesis gas from carbon dioxide, using zeolite membranes. This super filter, which could enable the cost-effective industrial production of biofuels, has been shown to have very small defects.The discovery may lead to that the effectiveness of the filter now hopefully now hopefully can increase significantly.
It will be a joint Nordic efforts in research around the mining industry when Sweden takes over the Presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers next year.
Biochemical and Chemical Process Engineering in the news
Researchers at Luleå University of Technology receive a grant from the Swedish Energy Agency to develop processes for large scale verification of butyric acid based on biomass. This project complements the ongoing biofuel research at the ethanol demo plant in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden and also demonstrates a wider application field of the plant.
For more than a decade, Luleå University of Technology and University of Oulu, have arranged seminars in the field of metallurgical residues, Nordic Recycling Day.
In Lulea, the mining fever has now spread to the University. A good salary and a good labor market attracts many people to choose educations to become a mining engineers.
During 2011/2012, Luleå University of Technology has created a Lab funding to provide university research an extra kick. Good infrastructure with new labs and new equipment gives LTU researchers better terms. An example of support from the lab fund is for new equipment to test diffrent material's durability in the knee and hip prostheses.
When the government in a few weeks are going to submit its proposal for a new research policy 200 million SEK is reserved for mining - minerals and steel research. It is revealed in an article authored by Minister for Education Jan Björklund and Enterprise Minister Annie Lööf. Sweden has a prominent mining research according to the ministers and LTU are pointed out in the article.
A research project to develop the use of residues from steel to fit as a raw material in cement production aided more than 6 million of Mistra. Mistras support shared equally between Luleå University of Technology and Umeå University.
Kiruna, Gällivare, Aitik, Pajala and Jokkmokk. And now Laver outside Älvsbyn.
In autumn 2012 the Division of Sustainable Process Engineering at Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden, will be offering four post-graduate courses in instrumental analysis:
Three scholars from the Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural resources engineering were Awarded for Best PhD Thesis, Dissertation and Thesis.
Eight teams have advanced to the semifinals of Technology SM: the best of Skövde, Uppsala, Lund, Gothenburg, Stockholm, Linköping, Umeå and Luleå. That was the result from qualifying events in 16 universities around the country.
Junk and recycling of metals from junk are big business for the metal industry. Professor Bo Björkman leads a research group at the niversity, which among others are working to develop new knowledge about how to recycle metals from consumer products such as computers, cell phones and recycling of waste products from the metal industry - all to save the environment and increase the profitability of companies .
Project 7. Trace metal transport across suboxic zones Project 8. Optimising stable metal isotope measurements in complex pelagic suboxic zones
This years Lundbohm Day offered many pleasant meetings, experiments and lectures within Sustainable Process Engineering.
Boliden has signed a new five- year R&D contract with Luleå University of Technology worth 17 MSEK. The funds are aimed at research and education in the field of Process metallurgy including the extraction and recycling of base metals.
The Kempe Foundations largest grants in 2011 was granted the institutions SBN and TVM, which joint application has received 4 million of equipment for the infrared and Raman spectroscopy.
Much of the past year was focused on expanding our business with social transformation and logistics for LKAB's new venture with 50 new million SEK.
Magnus Sjöblom, Division of Sustainable Process Engineering, has along with researchers at Karlolinska Institutet developed a unique product.
Our neighbors are now taking major steps in the mining industry and is investing in science the area. Swedens leading position can be threatened in accordance to Pär Weihed, professor in Ore Geology at the Luleå university of Technology.
An important step in order to coordinate research and training in metals and minerals in the Barents Region is hindsight after a workshop at Luleå University of Technology with participants from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Russia. The workshop was arranged by LTU in cooperation with the Swedish Foreign Ministry and led to guidelines for what content a competence centre should have.
ARANZ Geo Limited and Luleå University of Technology are pleased to present a hands-on workshop
Pär Weihed professor of ore geology at the university are being interviewed in the Swedish Radio program "Vetandets Värld". The topic is exploration at great depths.
Jonas Hedlund interviewed about their research.
