Four Danes win prestigious science award

Their new technology can markedly improve air quality in cities

Lucie Rychla

Four Danish researchers have been awarded the prestigious European Inventor Award for developing a method that can significantly help fight air pollution in cities.

Tue Johannessen, Ulrich Quaade, Claus Hviid Christensen and Jens Kehlet Nørskov won the prize in the ‘small and medium-sized enterprises’ category for manufacturing a technology that can remove up to 99 percent of mono-nitrogen oxide emissions from diesel engine exhausts.

READ MORE: DTU student wins prestigious science award

The researchers found a way how to store ammonia, a compound of nitrogen and hydrogen, in solid form by binding it with metal salts.

Their solid-form ammonia product ‘AdAmmine’ has already attracted a lot of interest, and the team recently landed a contract to instal their exhaust scrubber system onto 300 buses in Copenhagen.

The European Inventor Award is annually granted by the European Patent Office (EPO) to outstanding scientists, researchers and engineers who have made an extraordinary contribution to social development, technological progress and economic growth.

TOP STORIES

  • Danish Intelligence Service: Threat from Russia has intensified

    Danish Intelligence Service: Threat from Russia has intensified

    In the internal Danish waters, Russia will be able to attack underwater infrastructure from all types of vessels. The target could be cables with data, electricity and gas, assesses the Danish Defense Intelligence Service

  • Denmark to explore screening citizenship applicants for anti-democratic sentiments

    Denmark to explore screening citizenship applicants for anti-democratic sentiments

    A few weeks after Alex Vanopslagh’s comments about “right values,” the government announced that an expert committee would be established to examine the feasibility of screening citizenship applicants for anti-democratic attitudes.

  • The Future Copenhagen

    The Future Copenhagen

    The municipality plan encompasses building 40,000 houses by 2036 in order to help drive real estate prices down. But this is not the only huge project that will change the shape of the city: Lynetteholmen, M5 metro line, the Eastern Ring Road, and Jernbanebyen will transform Copenhagen into something different from what we know today

  • It’s not you: winter depression is affecting many people

    It’s not you: winter depression is affecting many people

    Many people in Denmark are facing hard times marked by sadness, anxiety, and apathy. It’s called winter depression, and it’s a widespread phenomenon during the cold months in Nordic countries.

  • Crime rates are rising, but people are safer

    Crime rates are rising, but people are safer

    Crime in Denmark is increasing for the second consecutive year, but it is more focused on property, while people appear to be safer than before. Over the past year, there were fewer incidents of violence

  • Novo Nordisk invests 8.5 billion DKK in new Odense facility

    Novo Nordisk invests 8.5 billion DKK in new Odense facility

    Despite Novo’s announcement that its growth abroad will be larger than in Denmark, the company announced this morning an 8.5 billion DKK investment for a new facility in Odense. This is the first time the company has established a new production site in Denmark this century.

Connect club

Connect Club is your gateway to a vibrant programme of events and an international community in Denmark.

Sign up here

Career

Want to advertise your job with CPH Post?

Contact us

Jobs