Welcome to Technological Forum 14 September 2016

Technological Forum is a new, open forum for students and staff at the Faculty of Technology in Porsgrunn, with varied and hopefully engaging topics within education, research, and development. The aim is to contribute to the development of the academic community at the university college. The meetings will consist of introductions followed by a debate where the audience may participate actively. There are two meetings per semester. Coffee and tea are served. The organizing committee consists of associate professor Joachim Lundberg, researcher Ali Ghaderi, project manager Robert Immerstein, student Marius Ystad, and docent Finn Aakre Haugen.

How to convert organic waste to valuable products - and why? Topic of the meeting 14 September 2016: How to convert organic waste to valuable products - and why? Greve Biogas and The Magic Factory (at Tønsberg), by assistant manager Ivar K. Sørby. On-farm small scale biogas, by chief researcher Jon Hovland, Tel-tek. Production of high quality organic fertilizer from cow manure in a biorefinery aspect, by farmer and agronomist Knut Vasdal, Foss farm, Skien.

Ivar Kopperud Sørby Background from agriculture, self-taught in the biogas field. Engaged in his own private consulting company that has been a research partner in several value-chain and climate-benefit projects with NMBU, Nibio, Tel-Tek and HiT, with Østfoldforskning as executive partner. He has been engaged in the project for developing the Magic Factory from the start in 2009. He has been a member of the project team that has built, started, and now is operating the plant since february this year. He has been responsible for the chain between the factory and the agriculture in the area.

Jon Hovland M.Sc in chemical engineering / applied biotechnology from NTNU. Worked with environmental technology within industry, oil and gas, and agriculture. Since 1995 worked with biogas technology together with prof. Rune Bakke. Been at Tel-Tek since 2008, with biogas, renewable energy and carbon capture and storage.

Knut Vasdal Civil Agronomist NLH 1986, ring leader FABIO 1986-1990, owns and operates Foss farm in Skien since 1990 as a organic dairy. Since 2010, research and development in the processing of cow manure, among others in collaboration with USN, Porsgrunn