Projects per year
Organization 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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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
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
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Charles Pesch
- The Faculty of Engineering and Science - PhD Student
- Department of the Built Environment - PhD Student
- Division of Civil and Environmental Engineering - PhD Student
- Soil Technology Research Group
- Urban Water Research Group - PhD Student
Person: VIP, External
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Application of Reliability Methods within Numerical Modelling of Hydrological Processes
Schaarup-Jensen, K., Brorsen, M. & Jensen, J. B.
19/05/2010 → …
Project: Research
Research output
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Heat and air transport in differently compacted fibre materials
Christiansen, L., Antonov, Y. I., Jensen, R. L., Arthur, E., de Jonge, L. W., Møldrup, P., Johra, H. & Fojan, P., 2022, In: Journal of Industrial Textiles. 51, 8, p. 1250-1263 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Estimating Atterberg limits of soils from hygroscopic water content
Arthur, E., Rehman, H. U., Tuller, M., Pouladi, N., Nørgaard, T., Moldrup, P. & de Jonge, L. W., 1 Jan 2021, In: Geoderma. 381, 114698.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Estimating Atterberg limits of soils from reflectance spectroscopy and pedotransfer functions
Knadel, M., Ur Rehman, H., Pouladi, N., Wollesen de Jonge, L., Moldrup, P. & Arthur, E., 15 Nov 2021, In: Geoderma. 402, 115300.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Open AccessFile
Datasets
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Data from: Soil hydraulic properties determined by inverse modeling of drip infiltrometer experiments extended with pedotransfer functions
Iversen, B. V. (Creator), Møldrup, P. (Creator), de Jong van Lier, Q. (Contributor), Kotlar, A. M. (Creator), Varvaris, I. (Creator) & de Jonge, L. W. (Contributor), Dryad, 8 Jul 2020
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.7q22r2m, http://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.7q22r2m
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Prizes
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Best Paper Award: RM4L2020
Frandsen, Kirstine Meyer (Recipient), Antonov, Y. I. (Recipient), Johra, Hicham (Recipient), Møldrup, Per (Recipient) & Jensen, Rasmus Lund (Recipient), 22 Sep 2021
Prize: Conference 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