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Welcome to DTU Chemical Engineering

DTU Chemical Engineering main activities lie within the areas of product design, process design and production in the chemical, pharmaceutical, food technological & energy technology industries

Polymers and particles. Synthesis of polymers (flask) and surface modification of particles (small vials) can be used to control agglomeration of particles (petri dish). Photo: Thorkild Christensen

Our research

DTU Chemical Engineering has a solid basis in technological core subjects and engineering scientific disciplines. The department's six research centers expand and build on this strong basis with specialised research activities

About us

At DTU Chemical Engineering we are about 270 employees from 37 countries. Of those, approx. 100 are permanent scientific staff, 100 PhD students and 70 administrative and technical staff

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Our education

Our programmes are offered at BEng, BSc and MSc level and cover many areas within chemical and biochemical engineering. If you would like to start a PhD with us, we also offer many interesting PhD programmes, most of the in collaboration with industry. And for the industry, we offer a variety of continuing education courses.

MSc in China

In cooperation with the Sino-Danish Center in Beijing and the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) in China, we offer a Master of Science in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering.

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20 NOV

DPC-Seminar-by-Line-Riis... 12:10 DPC-Seminar-by-Line-Riis-Christensen

23 NOV

PhD defence by Teresa Melo... 13:00 PhD defence by Teresa Melo de Carvalho

23 NOV

PhD defence by Andre Vinhal 13:00 PhD defence by Andre Vinhal

29 NOV

Sustain-2018 8:00 Sustain-2018

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22 October 2018 Increasing biogas yield from manure

10 October 2018 PhD interview: Optimizing reactor...

27 September 2018 Danish scientists accelerate climate...

11 September 2018 EUR 4.7 million to radical research...

RESEARCH CENTRE: AT CERE

Chalk samples. A large part of the oil recovered in Denmark comes from underground chalk reservoirs in the Danish part of the North Sea. In the laboratories of DTU Chemical Engineering, researchers inject brines of different salinity into samples of chalk saturated with oil in order to push out the oil—a method known as ‘smart water flooding’. The progress is then monitored using X-ray computer tomography scanning. Photo by Thorkild Christensen

Applied Thermodynamics, Transport Processes and Properties, Mathematical modeling, Material science, Petroleum Technology, Enhanced Oil Recovery, CO2 capture and gas hydrates,
Energy resources

RESEARCH CENTRE: AT CERE

RESEARCH CENTRE: PROSYS

PhD-students Frederico Montes and Carlos Eduardo Castelan behind a stirred tank which they are using for process intensification of gas-liquid bioreactors - a core research area at the PROSYS Research Centre. Photo by Thorkild Christensen.

Process Systems Engineering (PSE), Process Intensification and Integration (PII), process design and control, industrial fermentation technology, biocatalysis, microfluidics

RESEARCH CENTRE: PROSYS

RESEARCH CENTRE: CHEC

Catalysis, Inorganic chemistry, Combustion and flue gas cleaning, Diagnostics, Gasification, Pretreatment of biomass, Coatings, Pharmaceuticals

RESEARCH CENTRE: CHEC

RESEARCH CENTRE: COAST

Coating technologies from raw materials, over formulation, test and characterization to production and application. The center supports development, production and use of coatings with improved sustainability profiles over the lifetime of the coating.

RESEARCH CENTRE: COAST

RESEARCH CENTRE: DPC

Polymer technology, polymer chemistry, rheology, filament stretching rheology, surface modification, silicone polymers and elastomers

RESEARCH CENTRE: DPC

RESEARCH CENTRE: PILOT PLANT

Distillation column. The distillation column is at the heart of many of the chemical processes going on inside the pilot plant of DTU Chemical Engineering. The column can be used to separate liquids with different boiling points, e.g., water and concentration of ethanol. Photo: Thorkild Christensen

Designing and building large scale plants, Unit operations, Industrial chemical processes, Operational experience, Design of components, Plant safety, Good Manufacturing Practice

RESEARCH CENTRE: PILOT PLANT

KT Consortium

SHORTCUTS

Scientists turn wood into biofuel at DTU Chemical Engineering's pilot plant (360 video)

Click around in the pilot plant of DTU's Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering in Denmark as a researcher is pouring bio-oil from the huge H2CAP equipment. It's a new process for turning 2. generation biomass into diesel and gasoline which has now been developed. It's an integrated process for high pressure pyrolysis of biomass and catalytic hydrogen upgrading of bio-oil before it is condensed as liquid product. In the process small wood chips are heated to typically 450 ° C in a hydrogen-containing atmosphere and at a pressure of about 15-30 bar in the presence of a catalyst in a fluid bed reactor. The project is called H2CAP and is a collaboration between DTU's department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering and department of Mechanical Engineering as well as Stanford University, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the Danish company Haldor Topsøe. The project is funded Innovation Fund Denmark. For more information go to: http://www.kt.dtu.dk/english/research/chec/projects/h2cap