Research projects

We lead and participate in several research projects and programmes.

The research topics cover a broad environmental perspective and include projects on for example waste, air pollution, energy, climate change impacts, and chemicals. Funding comes from the Swedish EPA, Mistra and the Swedish Energy Agency among others.

Some of our appropriation-funded research projects are listed below:

  • Analysis tool for calculating environmental impact and efficiency of transport systems
    Collaboration with universities and industry to develop methods for analysing the connection between environmental impact and logistics efficiency of freight transport.
  • CLEO
    CLEO, Climate Change and Environmental Objectives, is a three-year research program which will produce models and scenarios on the impacts of climate change on the national environmental objectives.
  • CLIPORE
    An international interdisciplinary research program in support of future climate policy development.
  • COHIBA - Control of hazardous substances in the Baltic Sea region
    Pollution caused by hazardous substances still poses risks to the Baltic Sea area. Loads and impacts of some hazardous substances have been reduced considerably during the past 20-30 years, but concentrations of some other substances have increased in the marine environment. The COHIBA project will identify the sources and inputs of eleven hazardous substances, which are largely unknown and develop measures to reduce these substances.  
  • Comparing national initiatives in an
    international fragmented climate regime
    A project to analyse and compare national climate pledges.
  • DiVa
    A Swedish research project aiming at minimizing the environmental effects of forest ditch network maintenance on stream water chemistry and benthic fauna.
  • ENTWINED
    Environment and Trade in a World of Interdependence.
  • ERMES
    ERMES, European Research Group on Mobile Emission Sources, is a European network for the coordination of research, development and data collection in the automotive emission area with Swedish participation.
  • GMOS - Global Mercury Observation System
    A global coordinated research project for long-term monitoring of changes in mercury emissions.
  • Improved SCR systems for marine applications
    Collaboration with universities and industry to improve NOX-abatement techniques for shipping.
  • INDISPUTABLE KEY
    Intelligent distributed process utilisation and blazing environmental key
    The project's main goal was to develop tools and knowledge to allow for greater exchange of raw materials and efficient use of resources in production, throughout the value chain for wood products, thereby reducing the environmental impact.
  • INNOWATECH
    Innovative and Integrated Technologies for the Treatment of Industrial Wastewater.
  • IRCOW
    Innovative strategies for high-grade material recovery from construction and demolition waste.
  • Joint pilot study on the development of a research infrastructure and network development
    A cooperation in which IVL together with Chalmers develop a new database for research on the procurement and development of transport services.
  • Logistics analysis with help of the Sensitivity Model
    A project which analyses potential changes in the three dimensions of sustainability — social, economic and environmental — with regard to one of Geodis Wilson's transport chains
  • Mistra Indigo
    Four years of research focusing on the design of economic climate policy instruments to promote long term, cost-effective global mitigation, taking into account the uncertain international policy situation.
  • NMU — Northern Maritime University project
    Collaboration between universities and institutes for education and research in the maritime business.
  • R&D-facility Hammarby Sjöstadsverk
    Hammarby Sjöstadsverk - a unique facility for R&D and demonstration.
  • RECO Baltic 21 Tech
    Towards sustainable waste management in the Baltic Sea region
  • S'wash
    The washing machine of the future: 70 percent less water, 60 percent less energy, 25 percent less detergents.  
  • Scarp
    The aim of the Swedish Clean Air Research Program (SCARP) is to increase the scientific understanding of air pollution effects to human health and environment, in order to support policy development in Sweden and Europe.
  • smallFOREST
    The main objective of smallFOREST is to quantify ecosystem services and biodiversity in small forest fragments among agricultural landscapes and across different regions in Europe, to analyse how their mutual relationships vary between landscapes and to assess the extent to which ecosystem services are valued differently.
  • Sulphur in marine fuels — impact on particle emissions
    A measurement project about impact of future regulations for marine fuels.
  • Towards Sustainable Waste Management
    An interdisciplinary research program focusing on policy instruments and strategic decisions that may contribute to the development of a more sustainable waste management.
  • WEBAP
    The main objective of the proposed project is the demonstration of a cost-effective wave-powered device, entitled the “Wave Energized Baltic Aeration Pump (WEBAP)", which helps to mitigate the problem of oxygen depletion (“hypoxia") in marine environments.
Updated: 2011-03-31
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