POUL DUE JENSEN FOUNDATION RESEARCH When academia meets industry On 5 October, the Grundfos Prize 2017 was awarded to Professor, PhD., Irini Angelidaki from the Technical University of Denmark, DTU Environment. Professor Angelidaki was the fifteenth recipient of the Grundfos Prize. The theme of the Grundfos Prize 2017 was “Technologies enabling the transition to a fossil-free society”, a theme which harmonises well with Grundfos’ core values. We wanted to appeal to a broad group of researchers who focus on sustainability in various technological contexts, and this wish was fulfilled. Irini Angelidaki was awarded the Grundfos Prize in recognition of her research within biogas and biotechnology. Her research has contributed considerably to improving the efficiency of extracting bioenergy in the form of biogas from biomass and waste. In this way, non-fossil energy sources, which would otherwise go to waste, are utilised, and the energy is brought in a form, used in existing infrastructure. Professor Angelidaki has developed a technology for injecting hydrogen into the biogas-reactor, and the subsequent biological transition of carbon dioxide and hydrogen to methane and water. Through this technique, the biogas process can serve as a storage technology for renewable energy from, for example, the sun and wind with hydrogen as an intermediate state, while at the same time further reducing carbon dioxide emissions. The process is patented. Niels Due Jensen handed over the Grundfos Prize to Irini Angelidaki Foto: Lars Holm 34
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