Plastic Research Team

Contact

Kristian Syberg, professor, ksyberg@ruc.dk

Researchers and staff

Researchers and staff in the Plastic Research Group

The Environmental Dynamics Section is equipped with modern analytical facilities, as well as with facilities for growing plants and algae and assessing their physiological status. The latter include:

• Photobioreactors (PBRs) for the production of microalgae
  The PBRs include two bubble-column PBRs, each of 50 L, and two tubular PBRs, each of 250 L.
• Equipment for PAM fluorometry
  This equipment include a basic Hansatech FMS-1, as well as a Walz Image-Pam and a Walz Microscopy-PAM.
• IRGAs
  We have two infrared gas analyzers, a CIRAS-3 single channel system for absolute measurement and a CIRAS-3 dual channel system for differential measurements.
• Field spectroradiometer
  For field as well as laboratory measurements of plant and vegetation light reflection, we have an ASD FieldSpec spectroradiometer.

Other facilities

FTIR Spectrometer Frontier (Perkin Elmer)

• Infrared laser used to quickly and definitively test wavelengths of compound materials, such as plastic.
• Can test macro and micro plastic samples

Cryomill Cryogenic Mixer Mill CryoMill, Retsch GmbH, Germany)

• laboratory ball mill with cooling system that results in high grinding efficiency for multiple sample types, including plastic.
• creates uniform, small particle sized samples

SEM

• can provide detailed high-resolution images of various sample types

UFO (explicit: AAU design)

• created by Jes Vollertsen,  Lasse Rasmussen, Lemvig Vand, the Laboratory for Microplastics and Linda Männisalu
• universal filtering objects: able to filter and identify microplastics and fibres in surface water through a triple filtering system.

The workshops at the Department of Science and Environment design and develop advanced equipment for use in teaching and research, in close collaboration with staff and students. The workshops have many facilities and have both manual and CNC-controlled machines, as well as advanced equipment for electronics development.

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