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Organisation profile
Organisation profile
Head of research group: Per Møldrup
Research focus
- Gas diffusion and convection (via oxygen diffusivity and air permeability) in porous media
- Water and water vapor transport and binding/retention in unsaturated porous media
- Collid and particle transport and capture in soil and groundwater systems
- Volatile organic vapor and dissolved chemical behavior in porous media
- Chemical transport and sorption in the gas, liquid, and solid phases
- Soil and groundwater systems ressource protection and modelling
- Soil sensor and measurement systems for gas and water transport
Research efforts
The Soil Technology Research Group works with characterization, constitutive function development and modelling of parameters and processes in soil-based porous media. Our research ranges far from porous media systems to urban and cultivated soils, groundwater aquifers, and crop- and soil-based building materials. Two examples of our research are 1) using glacial rock flour from Greenlandic fjords as cultivated soil amendment and soil improvement material (project "NewLand"), and 2) the design of techno-soils for life support systems (e.g. food production, water cleaning, and shelter materials) on space stations, Moon and Mars (reduced-gravity space soil research).
Urban soils and their role in the urban water balance and, hereunder, the run-off and subsequent flooding risk from urban green areas under present and future climate is another quickly evolving research area.
Working closely together with the Division for Sustainability, Energy and Indoor Environment and the Energy Research Group, we have introduced an ensemple of new soil physics based material characterization methods for heat, air and moisture behavior of biobased building mateials. Together we work towards a concept of a full biomaterial and carbon storage cycle from soil to building and back to the soil as soil quality and health amendment.
Cooperation
The Soil Technology Research Group conducts research at the highest international level within porous media physics and physical-biochemical behavior of natural porous media systems, and we teach at Aalborg University. We have close collaboration in research projects and graduate (MSc and PhD) program teaching with especially Aarhus University-Foulum (Agroecology) nationally, and internationally with a number of universities in the US (e.g. Arizona, California, and Delaware) and Japan (e.g. Tokyo, Saitama, and Hiroshima).
We offer a 30+-year internationally recognized research environment withinin soil physical parameters and processes, and present members as well as previously educated scientists in the group have been elected Fellows of the Soil Science Society of America and recipients of the Don and Betty Kirkham Soil Physics Award.
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Collaborations from the last five years
Profiles
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Jacob Birk Jensen
- The Faculty of Engineering and Science - Part-time Lecturer
- Department of the Built Environment - Part-time Lecturer
- Division of Civil and Environmental Engineering - Part-time Lecturer
- Soil Technology Research Group
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Lene Werner Kristensen
- The Faculty of Engineering and Science - PhD Fellow
- Department of the Built Environment - PhD Fellow
- Division of Civil and Environmental Engineering - PhD Fellow
- Soil Technology Research Group - PhD Fellow
Person: VIP
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Per Møldrup
- The Faculty of Engineering and Science - Professor
- Department of the Built Environment - Professor
- Division of Civil and Environmental Engineering - Professor
- Soil Technology Research Group - Professor
Person: VIP
Projects
- 19 Finished
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NOWA: Non-Equilibrium of Water Vapor Sorption in Building Materials
Frandsen, K. M., Jensen, R. L., Møldrup, P., Antonov, Y. I. & Johra, H.
01/09/2018 → 31/08/2021
Project: Research
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Anthropogenic Chemicals in North Jutland Coastline Sediments
Margheritini, L., Nielsen, A. H., Møldrup, P., Larsen, T., Pedersen, A. N. & Dencker, J.
06/07/2018 → 01/06/2021
Project: Research
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Development of a material air permeability measurement setup
Johra, H., Frandsen, K. M., Jensen, R. L. & Møldrup, P.
02/04/2018 → 31/07/2020
Project: Other
Research output
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Contribution of organic carbon to the total specific surface area of soils with varying clay mineralogy
Arthur, E., Tuller, M., Norgaard, T., Moldrup, P., Chen, C., Ur Rehman, H., Weber, P. L., Knadel, M. & Wollesen de Jonge, L., Feb 2023, In: Geoderma. 430, 116314.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Glacial rock flour reduces the hydrophobicity of Greenlandic cultivated soils
Weber, P. L., Hermansen, C., Pesch, C., Moldrup, P., Greve, M. H., Blaesbjerg, N. H., Romero, G. M., Arthur, E. & de Jonge, L. W., May 2023, In: Soil Science Society of America Journal. 87, 3, p. 439-452 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Organic carbon controls water retention and plant available water in cultivated soils from South Greenland
Weber, P. L., Blaesbjerg, N. H., Moldrup, P., Pesch, C., Hermansen, C., Greve, M. H., Arthur, E. & de Jonge, L. W., 1 Mar 2023, In: Soil Science Society of America Journal. 87, 2, p. 203-215 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Open AccessFile1 Citation (Scopus)5 Downloads (Pure)
Datasets
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Data from: Soil hydraulic properties determined by inverse modeling of drip infiltrometer experiments extended with pedotransfer functions
Kotlar, A. M. (Creator), Varvaris, I. (Creator), de Jong van Lier, Q. (Creator), de Jonge, L. W. (Creator), Møldrup, P. (Creator) & Iversen, B. V. (Creator), Zenodo, 30 Jul 2019
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.7q22r2m, https://zenodo.org/record/4961885
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Prizes
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Teacher of the Year 2022 at The Study Board of the Built Environment
Møldrup, Per (Recipient), 30 Jun 2022
Prize: Educational prizes
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Best Paper Award: RM4L2020
Frandsen, Kirstine Meyer (Recipient), Antonov, Yovko Ivanov (Recipient), Johra, Hicham (Recipient), Møldrup, Per (Recipient) & Jensen, Rasmus Lund (Recipient), 22 Sept 2021
Prize: Conference prizes
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Teacher of the Year 2020 at The Study Board of the Built Environment, Aalborg University
Møldrup, Per (Recipient), 30 Jun 2020
Prize: Educational prizes
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Activities
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Linking Unsaturated Air Permeability to Saturated Hydraulic Permeability to Characterize Functional Soil Structure.
Charles Pesch (Other)
13 Nov 2019Activity: Talks and presentations › Conference presentations
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Mechanical Properties of Greenlandic Soils.
Charles Pesch (Other)
9 Jan 2019Activity: Talks and presentations › Conference presentations
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Canadian Society of Soil Science (External organisation)
Charles Pesch (Member)
2019Activity: Memberships › Membership of committees, commissions, boards, councils, associations, organisations, or similar
Press/Media
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Kommune lod borgere vande køkkenhaver trods advarsel om forurening
14/12/2021 → 15/12/2021
2 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media