Tjalfe G. Poulsen is Associate Professor at the Guangdong Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Dr. Poulsen is an environmental engineer and holds two MSc degrees (Aalborg University, Denmark, 1991 and University of Washington, Seattle USA, 1994) and a PhD degree (Aalborg University, 1997) in this field. He spent 2 years at Hiroshima University, Japan (1998-1999) as a post-doctoral researcher, and has since worked at Aalborg University (2000 – 2013), Xi'an Jiaotong – Liverpool University, China (2013 – 2016) and Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel (2016 – 2017).
Dr. Poulsen main research interests include transport, transfer and transformation processes in porous media (including soil & groundwater, waste materials and biofilters). Sustainable solid waste management (including biological waste treatment, waste_to_energy, nutrient & materials recycling, and landfill management), and environmental impact assessment/life cycle assessment. He has more than 20 years interdisciplinary research experience using experimental (lab and field), computational (numerical) and statistical methods and have currently more than 80 international peer review journal publications.
Transport, Transfer and Transformation Processes in Porous Media,
Sustainable Solid Waste Management,
Environmental Impact Assessment of Anthropogenic Systems
Papers
Poulsen, T. G., A. Furman and D. Liberzon. 2018. Effects of near-surface wind speed and gustiness on horizontal and vertical porous medium gas transport and gas exchange with the atmosphere. European Journal of Soil Science. DOI:101111/ejss.12531.
Poulsen, T. G., A. Furman and D. Liberzon. Effect of wind speed and wind gustiness on subsurface gas transport. Vadose Zone Journal. DOI: 10.2136/vzj2017.04.0079
Poulsen, T. G., A. Pourber, A. Furman, K. Papadikis. 2017. Relating wind-induced gas exchange to near-surface wind speed characteristics in porous media. Vadose Zone Journal. DOI: vzj2017.02.0039.
Poulsen, T. G., L. Adelard, and M. Wells. 2017. Improvement in CH4/CO2 ratio and CH4 yield as related to biomass mix composition during anaerobic co-digestion. Waste Management 63:179-187.
Pourbakhtiar, A., Poulsen, T. G., Wilkinson, S., and Bridge, J. 2017. Effect of wind turbulence on gas transport in porous media: Experimental method and preliminary results. European Journal of Soil Science 68:48-56.
Mustafa, A. M., T. G. Poulsen, Y. Xia, and K Sheng. 2017. Combinations of fungal and milling pretreatments for enhancing rice straw biogas production during solid state anaerobic digestion. Bioresource Technology 224:174-182
Sadef, Y. and T. G. Poulsen, K. Habib, and T. Iqbal. 2016. Uncertainty in degradation rates for organic micro-pollutants during full-scale sewage sludge composting. Waste Management 56:396-402.
Poulsen, T. G. and L. Adelard. 2016. Improving biogas quality and methane yield via co-digestion of agricultural and urban biomass wastes. Waste Management 54:118-123.
Sadef, Y., T. G. Poulsen and, K. Bester. 2015. Impact of compost process conditions on organic micro pollutant degradation during full scale composting. Waste Management 40:31-37.
Pugliese, L and T. G. Poulsen. 2015. Relating non-equilibrium solute transport and porous media physical characteristics. Water, Air and Soil Pollution 226:59-70.
