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Enzymes from garden compost could favour bioethanol production
The researcher in question is Nadia Skorupa Parachin and the secret of her technique is enzymes that she extracted from garden soil. If ethanol can be successfully made from xylose then ethanol production could increase by over 20 per cent – to the benefit of cheaper environmentally friendly fuel. Ethanol is manufactured by fermenting sugars from [...]
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Professor awarded Volvo scholarship
On March 7, the Håkan Frisinger Foundation for Transportation Research will be presenting its scholarship for 2010 to Bengt Johansson, Professor at Lund university (LTH). The scholarship, worth SEK 250,000, will be awarded to Bengt Johansson for his internationally successful and practically important research concerning combustion engines. Bengt [...]
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Research for safer railway tunnels
"We’re going to set fire to two trains. Then we’ll blow them up", says Daniel Nilsson. He is an associate senior lecturer in the Division of Fire Engineering and Risk Management at LTH and is working on a project to improve safety in underground systems and railway tunnels. The project, called Metro, will improve safety in tunnels and other [...]
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Mr. LTH - always at the centre of events
In September a major anniversary will be celebrated in Lund. LTH will have been in existence for 50 years and this must be celebrated. At the centre of the celebrations is a person who has experienced all these years at close quarters, the many-talented Skotte Mårtensson. He is on the jubilee committee that is planning the celebrations and jubilee [...]
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Ideon Life Science Village created
AstraZeneca is selling its research facilities in Lund to a foundation. The foundation has been founded by Mats Paulsson and is to support Region Skåne and Lund University, with the aim of establishing a new centre for research, innovation and enterprise, primarily within the field of medicine. In March last year, AstraZeneca decided to move its [...]