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Jes Vollertsen

Jes Vollertsen

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
54
Citations
11191
World Ranking
3179
National Ranking
41

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
54
Citations
11385
World Ranking
4022
National Ranking
50

Overview

Jes Vollertsen is affiliated with Aalborg University in Denmark and specializes in environmental science with a significant focus on pollution. Their research spans multiple subfields including pollution, industrial and manufacturing engineering, biomaterials, biomedical engineering, and ecology.

The primary research topics associated with Jes Vollertsen relate to microplastics and plastic pollution, recycling and waste management techniques, biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties, additive manufacturing and 3D printing technologies, municipal solid waste management, urban stormwater management solutions, and applications of graphene and nanomaterials.

Jes Vollertsen has contributed extensively to academic literature with a notable corpus of recent papers such as:

  • Drinking plastics? - Quantification and qualification of microplastics in drinking water distribution systems by µFTIR and Py-GCMS (2020), published in Water Research
  • Toward the Systematic Identification of Microplastics in the Environment: Evaluation of a New Independent Software Tool (siMPle) for Spectroscopic Analysis (2020), published in Applied Spectroscopy
  • Identification and Quantification of Microplastics in Potable Water and Their Sources within Water Treatment Works in England and Wales (2020), published in Environmental Science & Technology
  • Semi-automated analysis of microplastics in complex wastewater samples (2020), published in Environmental Pollution
  • A complete mass balance for plastics in a wastewater treatment plant - Macroplastics contributes more than microplastics (2021), published in Water Research

Their work has been disseminated through frequent publication venues which include SSRN Electronic Journal, The Science of The Total Environment, Water Research, Environmental Pollution, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Jes Vollertsen has collaborated extensively with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include Alvise Vianello, Claudia Lorenz, Lucian Iordachescu, Asbjørn Haaning Nielsen, and Jeanette Lykkemark.

In addition to journal articles, Jes Vollertsen has contributed to book publications, including a work released by the Water Environment Federation titled "WATS the Deal: Understanding and Mitigating Hydrogen Sulfide Impacts in Billings, MT through Collection System Modeling" published in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Quantification of microplastic mass and removal rates at wastewater treatment plants applying Focal Plane Array (FPA)-based Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR) imaging.

    Márta Simon;Nikki van Alst;Jes Vollertsen

  • Simulating human exposure to indoor airborne microplastics using a Breathing Thermal Manikin.

    Alvise Vianello;Rasmus Lund Jensen;Li Liu;Jes Vollertsen

  • The activated sludge ecosystem contains a core community of abundant organisms.

    Aaron Marc Saunders;Mads Albertsen;Jes Vollertsen;Per Halkjær Nielsen

  • Microplastics in urban and highway stormwater retention ponds

    Fan Liu;Kristina Borg Olesen;Amelia Reimer Borregaard;Jes Vollertsen

  • A conceptual ecosystem model of microbial communities in enhanced biological phosphorus removal plants

    Per Halkjær Nielsen;Artur Tomasz Mielczarek;Caroline Kragelund;Jeppe Lund Nielsen

  • Drinking plastics? - Quantification and qualification of microplastics in drinking water distribution systems by µFTIR and Py-GCMS.

    Inga Vanessa Kirstein;Fides Hensel;Alessio Gomiero;Lucian Iordachescu

  • Corrosion of concrete sewers--the kinetics of hydrogen sulfide oxidation.

    Jes Vollertsen;Asbjørn Haaning Nielsen;Henriette Stokbro Jensen;Tove Wium-Andersen

  • Toward the Systematic Identification of Microplastics in the Environment: Evaluation of a New Independent Software Tool (siMPle) for Spectroscopic Analysis.

    Sebastian Primpke;Richard K. Cross;Svenja M. Mintenig;Marta Simon

  • Sulfide-iron interactions in domestic wastewater from a gravity sewer

    Asbjørn Haaning Nielsen;Piet Lens;Jes Vollertsen;Thorkild Hvitved-Jacobsen

  • Retention of microplastics in sediments of urban and highway stormwater retention ponds.

    Fan Liu;Alvise Vianello;Jes Vollertsen

  • Urban and Highway Stormwater Pollution: Concepts and Engineering

    Thorkild Hvitved-Jacobsen;Jes Vollertsen;Asbjorn Haaning Nielsen

  • Identification and Quantification of Microplastics in Potable Water and Their Sources within Water Treatment Works in England and Wales.

    Andrew C. Johnson;Hollie Ball;Richard Cross;Alice A. Horton

  • Sulfide Precipitation in Wastewater at Short Timescales

    Bruno Kiilerich;Wilbert van de Ven;Asbjørn Haaning Nielsen;Jes Vollertsen

  • Semi-automated analysis of microplastics in complex wastewater samples.

    Alice A. Horton;Richard K. Cross;Daniel S. Read;Monika D. Jürgens

  • Biocides in urban wastewater treatment plant influent at dry and wet weather: concentrations, mass flows and possible sources

    Ulla E. Bollmann;Camilla Tang;Eva Eriksson;Karin Jönsson

  • The sewer as a bioreactor – a dry weather approach

    Thorkild Hvitved-Jacobsen;Jes Vollertsen;José Saldanha Matos

  • A Process and Model Concept for Microbial Wastewater Transformations in Gravity Sewers

    Thorkild Hvitved-Jacobsen;Jes Vollertsen;Per Halkjær Nielsen

  • Towards a better understanding of sewer exfiltration

    M. Rutsch;J. Rieckermann;J. Cullmann;John Bryan Ellis

  • Dynamics of biocide emissions from buildings in a suburban stormwater catchment - concentrations, mass loads and emission processes.

    Ulla E. Bollmann;Jes Vollertsen;Jan Carmeliet;Kai Bester

  • Microplastics in a Stormwater Pond

    Kristina Borg Olesen;Diana A. Stephansen;Nikki van Alst;Jes Vollertsen

  • Influence of pipe material and surfaces on sulfide related odor and corrosion in sewers

    Asbjørn Haaning Nielsen;Jes Vollertsen;Henriette Stokbro Jensen;Tove Wium-Andersen

  • Determination of kinetics and stoichiometry of chemical sulfide oxidation in wastewater of sewer networks.

    Asbjørn Haaning Nielsen;Jes Vollertsen;Thorkild Hvitved-Jacobsen

Frequent Co-Authors

Thorkild Hvitved-Jacobsen
Thorkild Hvitved-Jacobsen Aalborg University
Hans Brix
Hans Brix Aarhus University
Kai Bester
Kai Bester Aarhus University
Carlos A. Arias
Carlos A. Arias Aarhus University
Per Halkjær Nielsen
Per Halkjær Nielsen Aalborg University
Zaini Ujang
Zaini Ujang Harvard Business School Alumni Club of Malaysia
Richard Ashley
Richard Ashley University of Sheffield
Peter Steen Mikkelsen
Peter Steen Mikkelsen Technical University of Denmark
Jeppe Lund Nielsen
Jeppe Lund Nielsen Aalborg University
Piet N.L. Lens
Piet N.L. Lens University of Galway

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