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Keywords
Waste management
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Waste incineration
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Life cycle assessment
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Life Cycle Impact Assessment
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Resource recovery
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Life Cycle Costing
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Waste LCA
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Waste to Energy
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Waste prevention
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Waste Analysis
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Resource management
Thomas Fruergaard Astrup carries out research within waste and
resources, in particular in relation to sustainable recycling and
utilization of resources in waste from households and industry. The
research focuses on environmental aspects of resource recovery and
management in society:
- Material resources, e.g. metals, mineral resources, plastic,
paper
- Energy resources, e.g. solid and liquid fuels, electricity and
heat from waste
- Resource quality, e.g. presence of critical substances in
recyclable materials
The following are examples of research areas:
- Physico-chemical characterization of waste materials, residual
biomass and secondary resources
- Quantification of contaminants and critical substances in waste
and recyclable materials
- Quantification of leaching and release of contaminants from
waste materials
- Determination of emissions from management, treatment,
upgrading and final utilization of waste materials and secondary
resources
- Life cycle assessment (LCA) of waste systems, waste
technologies, recycling and utilization
- Life cycle assessment (LCA) of energy systems, energy
technologies, biofuels, biorefineries, and utilization of biomass
resources
- Life cycle costing (LCC) of waste systems and waste
technologies
- Materia, energy and substance flow analysis in relation to
waste, biomass and resource systems
Thomas Fruergaard Astrup collaborates with public authorities,
industry, and research institutions, and has extensive experiences
as manager of a large number of research projects with both
national and international partners. Thomas Fruergaard Astrup is
member of the executive board for the Danish Waste Association
(DAKOFA), member of evaluation committee for research program for
environmentally friendly electricity production (Energinet.dk).
Thomas Fruergaard Astrup is Head of Section for Residual Resource
Engineering and member of the departments Executive Board.
See profile and cv in DTU Orbit...