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Bo H. Svensson

Bo H. Svensson

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
65
Citations
12689
World Ranking
2251
National Ranking
35

Overview

Bo H. Svensson is affiliated with Linköping University in Sweden and has an extensive publication record across multiple disciplines, primarily focused on engineering and environmental science. Their research spans topics including flexible and reconfigurable manufacturing systems, manufacturing process and optimization, scheduling and optimization algorithms, advanced manufacturing and logistics optimization, anaerobic digestion and biogas production, peatlands and wetlands ecology, and coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics.

The scientist has contributed to several publication venues, with papers appearing in Microorganisms, Oikos, Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, Biotechnology Advances, and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.

Notable recent research papers by Svensson include:

  • Effect of Cobalt, Nickel, and Selenium/Tungsten Deficiency on Mesophilic Anaerobic Digestion of Chemically Defined Soluble Organic Compounds (2020, Microorganisms)
  • Rewiring of peatland plant-microbe networks outpaces species turnover (2021, Oikos)
  • Customization and flexible manufacturing capacity using a graphical method applied on a configurable multi-agent system (2022, Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing)
  • Goal-Oriented Process Plans in a Multiagent System for Plug & Produce (2020, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics)
  • Microclimatological consequences for plant and microbial composition in Sphagnum-dominated peatlands (2024, Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS))

Svensson has collaborated frequently with a number of co-authors, including Fredrik Danielsson, Sepehr Shakeri Yekta, Mattias Bennulf, Annika Björn, and Bjorn J. M. Robroek, indicating ongoing partnerships within their research domains.

The main fields of study for Svensson are:

  • Engineering
  • Environmental Science

Subfields of study include:

  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
  • Ecology
  • Building and Construction
  • Plant Science
  • Biomedical Engineering

The key research topics covered in their work are:

  • Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems
  • Manufacturing Process and Optimization
  • Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms
  • Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization
  • Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics

Best Publications

  • 454 pyrosequencing analyses of bacterial and archaeal richness in 21 full‐scale biogas digesters

    Carina Sundberg;Waleed A. Al-Soud;Madeleine Larsson;Erik Alm

  • Thawing sub-arctic permafrost - effects on vegetation and methane emissions

    Torben R. Christensen;Torbjörn Johansson;H. Jonas Åkerman;Mihail Mastepanov

  • Factors controlling large scale variations in methane emissions from wetlands

    Torben R. Christensen;Anna Ekberg;Lena Ström;Mihail Mastepanov

  • Clostridium ultunense sp. nov., a Mesophilic Bacterium Oxidizing Acetate in Syntrophic Association with a Hydrogenotrophic Methanogenic Bacterium

    Anna Schnürer;Bernhard Schink;Bo H. Svensson

  • Mesophilic syntrophic acetate oxidation during methane formation in biogas reactors

    Anna Schnürer;Gerhard Zellner;Bo H. Svensson

  • Microbial oxidation of CH4 at different temperatures in landfill cover soils

    Gunnar Börjesson;Ingvar Sundh;Bo Svensson

  • In situ methane production from acid peat in plant communities with different moisture regimes in a subarctic mire

    Bo H. Svensson;Thomas Rosswall

  • Seasonal and Diurnal Methane Emissions From a Landfill and Their Regulation By Methane Oxidation

    Gunnar Börjesson;Bo H. Svensson

  • Depth distribution of microbial production and oxidation of methane in northern boreal peatlands

    I Sundh;M Nilsson;G Granberg;B H Svensson

  • Relationships between soil moisture content and nitrous oxide production during nitrification and denitrification

    L. Klemedtsson;B. H. Svensson;T. Rosswall

  • Impact of trace element addition on biogas production from food industrial waste – linking process to microbial communities

    Xin Mei Feng;Xin Mei Feng;Anna Karlsson;Bo H. Svensson;Stefan Bertilsson

  • Fluxes of CO2, CH4 and N2O from drained coniferous forests on organic soils

    K. Von Arnold;P. Weslien;M. Nilsson;B.H. Svensson

  • Biotic controls on CO2 and CH4 exchange in wetlands – a closed environment study

    Torben R. Christensen;Nicolai Panikov;Nicolai Panikov;Nicolai Panikov;Mihail Mastepanov;Mihail Mastepanov;Anna Joabsson

  • Measurements of Methane Emissions from Landfills Using a Time Correlation Tracer Method Based on FTIR Absorption Spectroscopy

    Bo Galle;Jerker Samuelsson;Bo H. Svensson;Gunnar Borjesson

  • Regulation of methane production in a Swedish acid mire by pH, temperature and substrate

    Inger Bergman;Bo H. Svensson;Mats Nilsson

  • A method of selective inhibition to distinguish between nitrification and denitrification as sources of nitrous oxide in soil

    L. Klemedtsson;B. H. Svensson;T. Rosswall

  • Impact of trace element addition on degradation efficiency of volatile fatty acids, oleic acid and phenyl acetate and on microbial populations in a biogas digester.

    Anna Karlsson;Peter Einarsson;Anna Schnürer;Carina Sundberg

  • Different Temperature Optima for Methane Formation When Enrichments from Acid Peat Are Supplemented with Acetate or Hydrogen

    Bo H. Svensson

  • Potential aerobic methane oxidation in a sphagnum-dominated peatland : controlling factors and relation to methane emission

    Ingvar Sundh;Catharina Mikkelä;Mats Nilsson;Bo H. Svensson

  • Influence of Water Solubility, Side-Chain Degradability, and Side-Chain Structure on the Degradation of Phthalic Acid Esters under Methanogenic Conditions

    Jörgen Ejlertsson;Magnus Alnervik;Susanne Jonsson;Bo H. Svensson

  • The use of acetylene inhibition of nitrous oxide reductase in quantifying denitrification

    L. Klemedtsson;B.H. Svensson;T. Lindberg;T. Rosswall

Frequent Co-Authors

Anna Karlsson
Anna Karlsson Skåne University Hospital
Ulf Skyllberg
Ulf Skyllberg Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Mats Nilsson
Mats Nilsson Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Leif Klemedtsson
Leif Klemedtsson University of Gothenburg
David Bastviken
David Bastviken Linköping University
Luca Bragazza
Luca Bragazza Agroscope
Bjorn J. M. Robroek
Bjorn J. M. Robroek Radboud University Medical Center
Nancy B. Dise
Nancy B. Dise Manchester Metropolitan University
Jos T. A. Verhoeven
Jos T. A. Verhoeven Utrecht University
Bo Galle
Bo Galle Chalmers University of Technology

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