LUT University

LUT School of Business and Management (LBM) is among the world's top 200 business schools in the latest Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2020 for business and economics subjects. The latest ranking shows a significant leap for LBM, as it moved up from 301-400 in the previous year.

LUT places second among a total of seven Finnish universities included in the ranking.

"There are no shortcuts to excellence. I'm really happy to see that consistent hard work is paying off", says dean Sami Saarenketo.

Synthetic fuels

LUT University and a group of companies have started a feasibility study for a synthetic fuels pilot production plant. The intended industrial scale pilot facility is based on power-to-x technology, and it would be located in Joutseno, Eastern Finland. The target is to produce carbon neutral fuels for transportation.

"The use of fossil oil and gas as transportation fuels is coming to an end. They need to be replaced with carbon neutral fuels, and in this way set the CO2 emissions caused by transportation to zero", says Petteri Laaksonen, Research Director at LUT School of Energy Systems.

Carbon negative manufacturing

LUT's research targeting the elimination of carbon dioxide emissions is branching out to the manufacture of carbon products.

A new study demonstrates a carbon negative manufacturing process that transforms carbon dioxide, considered waste, with emission-free electricity into carbon products, such as graphene, which is used in electric car batteries.

Climate crisis

The founder of the energy and fuel company St1 Mika Anttonen says that getting our planet back on track requires radical approaches, systemic changes and a global carbon market.

"A global carbon market is an exemplary solution. The producer of carbon dioxide would pay to have the carbon they emit recovered from the atmosphere."

Carbon sinks could be established especially on the African continent.

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LUT University

LUT leaped to the world's top 200 business schools

Synthetic fuels

Feasibility study for a synthetic fuels pilot production plant started

Carbon negative manufacturing

LUT explores the manufacture of graphene from atmospheric CO2

Climate crisis

"Carbon sinks could be established on the African continent"