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Technical Systems and Their Environmental Impact

RESEARCH AREA AT THE DIVISION OF ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT


Our research on large technical systems aims to contribute with knowledge regarding how to obtain a more efficient use of material and energy resources in a life cycle perspective. In doing so, we develop innovative systems solutions and evaluate their potential environmental and economic performance. Emphasis is also on the involved actors and particularly in studying their incentives and capacity for realizing such systems change. This type of research is at present applied on several different topics such as biofuels for transportation, landfill mining and urban mining.


Ongoing research projects

 

DORIS - IPSORIS Logo 120DORIS - Development of (Integrated product service) offerings for the Railway Infrastructure System

The aim of this project is to support the Swedish Transport Administration to find new ways to improve the management of the rail infrastructure.

Project leader: Mattias Lindahl

 

 
 

Cable X Logo 120Economic and environmental evaluation of metal recovery from disconnected city power grids

The overall aim of this project is to evaluate the economic and environmental performance of alternative, non-digging technologies for cable extraction.

Project leader: Joakim Krook

 

 

Landf Mining Logo 120Landfill mining for integrated remediation and resource recovery: economic and environmental potentials in Sweden

This project aims to analyze the potential of landfill mining, emphasizing economic and environmental conditions.

Project leader: Joakim Krook


 

Sust Nkpg Logo 120Sustainable Norrköping

Sustainable Norrköping is a polycentric research program consisting of the three core areas: sustainable city development, systems of transportation and urban-industrial symbiosis. It aims at supporting Norrköping's ambitions to putting the city on the world map of sustainability.

Program management: Mats Eklund and Sara Gustafsson.

 

 

BioFuelSyn logo 120Synergies for improved environmental performance of first generation biofuels

The overall aim of this project is to contribute to the development for improving the performance of production systems for biofuels for transportation from food crops and waste.

Project leaders: Michael Martin and Mats Eklun


 

 

Urban Mining Logo 120Urban mining: laying the foundation for a new line of business

The overall aim of the project is to develop technical, economic, environmental and organizational conditions for extracting the metals metal stocks situated in disconnected subterranean infrasystems and thus contributing to the societal strategy of closing material loops.

Project leader: Joakim Krook

 

Finished research projects

 

Contact


Joakim



Joakim Krook
Assistant Professor

Phone: +46 (0)13 28 89 03
e-mail: joakim.krook@liu.se

 

 

researchers

Jonas Ammenberg, Assistant Professor
Phone: +46 (0)13 28 16 79
Leo Baas, Professor
Phone: +46 (0)13 28 27 81
Björn Berglund, PhD candidate
Phone: +46 (0)13 28 56 25
Mats Eklund, Professor
Phone: +46 (0)13 28 17 26
Carolina Ersson, PhD candidate
Phone: +46 (0)13 28 56 38
Per Frändegård, PhD candidate
Phone: +46 (0)13 28 56 74
Nils Johansson, PhD candidate
Phone: +46 (0)13 28 56 29
Michael Martin, PhD candidate
Phone: +46 (0)13 28 11 32
Niclas Svensson, Post Doc
Phone: +46 (0)13 28 56 62

 

envtechlogga70x70.jpgEnvironmental Technology and Management conducts multidisciplinary and environmentally oriented  research on products, services, technical systems and organizations from a systems perspective.

 

Research at LiU

LiUlogga.jpgResearch and doctoral studies at Linköping university is conducted within four faculties: Arts and Sciences, Educational Sciences, Science and Engineering and Health Sciences.



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Last updated: 2012-11-05