Research at Uppsala University

Research project from 2011-01-01 to 2015-12-31

The iron-based rechargeable Li-ion battery has the potential to influence the development of all kinds of hybrid electric vehicles in reducing fuel consumption. The battery is environmentally benign with ...

Research project from 2008-02-11 to 2010-12-31

Genom grundläggande materialforskning av de i batteriet ingående materialen, i kombination med grundläggande elektrokemiska analyser, simulering och modellering samt testning av små och större battericeller ...

Research project from 2012-01-31 to 2013-04-30

With the method that is presented in this application we intend to depolymerize and reduce lignin in black liquor to monomeric hydrocarbons that can be used as different green oil derivatives. Through ...

Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2015-06-30

The Sun provides to the Earth in one hour an amount of energy that exceeds our energy consumption in one year. However, available technologies do not allow us to harvest even 0.02 % of such energy in a ...

Research project from 2009-04-01 to 2013-04-01

KTH and Uppsala University (Campus Uppsala and Campus Gotland) are now creating a new center whose focus will be on wind power project development and integration. The latter sectors strongly require competence ...

Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2014-12-31

This is a new research project aiming at the design and construction of cyanobacterial cells for the production of renewable H2 using a synthetic biology approach. It is based on own competence on cyanobacterial ...

Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2016-12-31

Solar fuel is the target for the Consortium for Artificial Photosynthesis. The basic concept is simple: With solar energy water is split into oxygen and hydrogen. Hydrogen is one fuel but also other fuels ...

Research project from 2008-01-01 to 2010-12-31

Det föreslagna projektet adresserar förlust mekanismer i svänghjul och elektriska maskiner. Detta är av central betydelse för framtida tillämpningar. Inte bara för att öka verkningsgraden i system för ...

Research project from 2013-08-01 to 2014-12-31

The project aims to overcome the barriers that exist for improving energy efficiency in existing apartment buildings. A method will be developed to use existing energy declarations for decicions and implementation ...

Research project from 2011-07-01 to 2015-03-31

The objective of the proposed project is to facilitate energy efficiency and preventive conservation in historic buildings . This includes development of appropriate climate criteria, control strategies ...

Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2014-12-31

The project will apply a new technology to study fundamental processes in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSC). A new time-of-flight type of electron spectrometer (ArTOF 10k) has been developed and will be ...

Research project from 2008-01-01 to 2010-12-31

Projektet syftar till att få en fundamental förståelse för hur nya effektiva solceller kan konstrueras. I projektet studeras funktionen hos en sådan hybrid-solcell (bestående av hårda och mjuka fasta nanomaterial ...

Research project from 2011-01-01 to 2013-12-31

There is an urgent need to develop renewable alternatives to petroleum that will help meet global demands for energy and synthetic chemistry feedstock, without contributing to climate change or other environmental ...

Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2014-12-31

The goal of this project is to develop the fundamental tools necessary for creating a new class of SUSTAINABLE, HIGH ENERGY DENSITY organic matter based electrodes for Li ion batteries (LIBs) and other ...

Research project from 2013-09-01 to 2015-05-30

Our research focuses on efficient energy storage for electric vehicles. We develop a new electric drive-line based on a kinetic energy storage unit with two isolated voltage levels: one high-power winding ...

Research project from 2010-01-01 to 2013-12-31

Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSC) are complex and the understanding of charge transfer and charge transport in the system is very important. In the project photoelectrochemical methods will be applied and ...

Research project from 2008-08-20 to 2008-12-31

The Swedish Energy Agency supports the project "Grätzel solar cells" during 2006-01-01 to 2008-12-31. The project aims to develop a technology for large scale production of Grätzel solar cells giving a ...

Research project from 2013-06-20 to 2015-12-30

Energy companies have during the past decade announced how they try to reduce their climate damaging emissions. Recently, some companies have also begun to focus on the employees’ ability to act in favor ...

Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2014-12-31

The project supports active participation of Sweden in IEA-PVPS Taks 1. The Swedish representative has the responsibility to gather information about Swedish solar cell systems and other related activities ...

Research project from 2010-11-08 to 2015-11-16

The law is crucial for the implementation of energy policy, but the law is highly fragmented; activities and individual measures within the energy sector are often legally considered separately and in ...

Research project from 2011-06-01 to 2013-06-01

Rotating kinetic energy storage devices have high energy density (though not as high as Li-ion batteries) and high power density (comparable with that of super-capacitors). They do not rely on chemical ...

Research project from 2013-06-17 to 2016-02-28

Field studies and analyses will focus on Red-throated diver, Black-throated diver, Osprey, and White-tailed eagle, species commonly addressed in the environmental impact assessments for coastal wind farms ...

Research project from 2008-01-09 to 2008-05-29

Det strategiska målet för det planerade projektet är att utveckla och sprida en omfattande uppsättning av verktyg och metoder för att bedöma, karaktärisera och utvärdera saltakvifärer för koldoixidlagring ...

Research project from 2008-02-11 to 2011-12-31

Projektet avser utveckling och optimering av litiumjärnsilikat-batteri för elhybridfordon. Elhybridfordon har redan visat sig kunna sänka bränsleförbrukning och koldioxidutsläpp med upp till 40%. Ett ...

Research project from 2009-12-01 to 2014-12-31

The aim of the project is to improve the knowledge about sound propagation from wind turbines and especially over varying terrain and different weather conditions. The result shall be improved sound propagation ...

Research project from 2008-01-01 to 2010-12-31

I detta projekt kombineras experimentella och teoretiska studier på legeringssystem som bidrar till den grundläggande förståelsen av magnetismens grunder, samt har stor potential att finna nya högpresterande ...

Research project from 2013-10-01 to 2016-12-31

The overall aim of the project is to estimate the efficiency and savings potential for the electricity consumption in single-family homes and apartment buildings of demand response programs and individual ...

Research project from 2013-09-01 to 2017-08-31

The weather prediction models used at SMHI, WT and UU will evolve particularly in the area of parameterizing cloud physics and turbulence. The objective is to optimize the skill of the models to calculate ...

Research project from 2013-04-19 to 2015-12-31

The project aims to consolidate and further develop the competens within the field of electromagnetic energy conversion and renewable electricity from wave power that have been established at Uppsala University ...

Research project from 2011-01-01 to 2014-12-31

A purpose of the project is the understanding and control over molecular interfaces in mesoscopic materials used for energyconversion. Such systems have been subject of substantial academic and commercial ...