Since 2011, the Syrian war has resulted in a massive energy supply shortage, making it difficult for people to access the energy they need for their daily lives. Renewable energy adoption can help to address this issue, and this is where biogas technology comes into play.

Hynek Roubík je jedním z nejmladších docentů v Česku, působí na Fakultě tropického zemědělství České zemědělské univerzity a povídal si s námi o tom, jaký je potenciál energetického využití odpadu nebo vzájemného soužití energetiky a zemědělství.

UNITED24 was launched by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the main venue for collecting charitable donations in support of Ukraine. Funds will be transferred to the official accounts of the National Bank of Ukraine and allocated by assigned ministries to cover the most pressing needs:

On 31st of March (2022) the 1st Café Scientifique at FTA for PhD students was organized by Associate professor Hynek Roubík (Group leader of Biogas Research Team).

Blog post by: Sheriff Noi. This blog post emerged as one of the five winners of the YPARD/AGRINATURA/AgriSciences Platform E-Competition: SHARE YOUR STORY! for the MSc and BSc Category. The competition which was tagged your Research your Story! aimed to help students have a better sense of ownership of their research and to communicate the most important parts of their research in a creative easy to read storytelling way.

The Competition is held in three areas: agronomy, technology of production and processing of livestock products, agroengineering. The Competition is held in two stages: the first (in home HEIs) - October 2021 - March 2022; the second (on the basis of MNAU) - April 2022 - June 2022.

After a one-year break caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the second Multidisciplinary Conference for Young Researchers was successfully organised on 29-30th of November 2021. This time in Sumy, Ukraine. And the theme of the conference was up-to-date: Sustainable Development Trends and Challenges under COVID-19.

Our PhD students Marek Jelínek, Jan Staš and Eduardo Duque Dussán, along with Assoc. Prof. Hynek Roubík, travelled to Ukraine as delegates of the FTA under the scientific cooperation project "Strengthening scientific capacities and cooperation of Ukrainian universities in AgriSciences" supported by the Czech Development Cooperation via Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic.

Ginny was elected because of her active involvement in research, education, and activities benefiting the foreign students contributing to the motivation of those interested in studying in Prague.

In October 2021 one of the members of Biogas Research Team – Ing. Ghaith Hasan visited Expo 2020 in Dubai. Here you can read his report.

Je specialistou na zemědělství třetího světa. Výzkumné práci se věnuje na katedře udržitelných technologií Fakulty tropického zemědělství ČZU v Praze a jeho vědecký zájem se soustřeďuje na nakládání s organickým odpadem a udržitelné technologie. 

Víte, co je to bioplyn a proč se stává čím stále zajímavějším pro celou naší planetu? Odhalte s námi, kde bioplyn vzniká, jak byl objeven člověkem, a jaká je současnost i budoucnost jeho využití.

Jackline Phiona Mukisa was master student at the Biogas Research Team under the supervision of Associate Professor Hynek Roubík and co-supervision of Dr. Jana Mazancová with her research focused on “Biogas in Uganda and the SDGs: A comparative cross-sectional fuel analysis of wood and biogas on case of Iganga district”.

...a Fakulta tropického zemědělství se vám tentokrát otevře od 17:00 do 22:00. Srdečně vás zveme k prozkoumání našich laboratoří, k poznávačce koření či esenciálních olejů a pro odvážné nabízíme i možnost zapojit se do bojové hry.

This project was aiming to assess the possibilities of local winemakers in terms of valorisation of their processing waste. Based on the preliminary data collection and interviews with stakeholders the briquetting technology has been assessed as the most appropriate technology for small-scale and medium-scale producers together with use of small-scale biogas plant.

Ani pandemie nemohla zastavit členy volejbalového týmu Fakulty tropického zemědělství ČZU v Praze v účasti na turnaji v plážovém volejbale na podporu globálních cílů OSN

Globally, more people make their living from waste management than from any other sector, apart from farming. Nevertheless, somehow this massive sector is quite underrated and still not receiving enough attention. So, let´s change it!

Haya was master student at the Biogas Research Team with her research focused on “Waste management pract\ices in Jordan (Al Ghoor region) and potential for implementation of biogas technology”.

Phd students from Biogas Research Team Ing. Marek Jelínek, MA Ricardo Situmeang and Dipl.Ing. Chama Theodore Ketuama, MSc. all passed successfully their State Exams.

In this paper, we focused on the influence of fallen leaves from the urban ecosystem as a cellulose-containing additive in the process of anaerobic digestion of poultry litter.

In this paper, we analysed the directions of phosphogypsum recycling and possible alternatives to its use.

In this year, even though we are still experiencing COVID-19 pandemic and all classes has to be done online, we had quite nice outcomes again from our OWM course.

In this paper, we focused on the quantification and evaluation of biogas production from either corn or sweet sorghum, as well as their combination

Postdoctoral fellowships are open to researchers moving within Europe, as well as those coming in from other parts of the world. You can also restart a research career after a break, such as parental leave.

Our colleagues Ricardo Situmeang, Chama Ketuama, Ghaith Hassan and Marek Jelínek participated in the Tropentag 2020 conference which was organised during September 9 – 11, 2020. The topic of the year 2020 was Food and nutrition security and its resilience to global crises.

Personalized Publication Mugs for fellow academics: when pandemic does not allow us for getting together, in our #BiogasResearchTeam under the leadership of Dr. Hynek Roubík we came up with a new way of celebrating accomplishments in publication of scientific papers.

In this paper we quantify the impact of partial replacement of traditional cooking fuels by biogas from two most prevalent sizes of biogas plants (BGPs) (6 m3 and 9 m3). 

This blog post by Charles Amarachi Ogbu emerged as one of the five winners that participated in the YPARD and AGRINATURA e-competition for the PhD. Category. Read it here.

Hynek was born on January 26th, 1991, in the Prague Czech Republic. His passion for agriculture started at a very early age. As a child he would help his family in their home garden where they would grow vegetables, potatoes and other crops, this experience leads him to pursue a career in agriculture.

Přírodovědec Hynek Roubík stojí u zrodu zřejmě nejmenší mobilní laboratoře světa, která umí v odlehlém terénu rozpoznat infekční choroby včetně nového koronaviru. „Jsme nesrovnatelně menší a levnější než obdobné projekty,“ říká vědec z České zemědělské univerzity a spoluautor projektu CZU mobiLAB. Jeho hlavním těžištěm práce je přitom problematika zpracování organického odpadu v rozvojovém světě.

Hynek has been in touch with agriculture since his childhood, where he used to help with the home agricultural production of his family. He was always interested in different agricultural aspects and fields. After graduating from high school, Dr. Roubík started his studies at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (CZU). Firstly, he initiated his studies in the Faculty of Engineering, but his interests in sustainability and waste management led him to the Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences, where he finished his doctoral studies. Already during his bachelor research, he took a chance to participate as a team assistant of a developing project in Vietnam. And there he realized that this is the right direction to follow. Vietnam has not only become the country of his further research but has also become his home away from home.

...interview with Hynek Roubík, a young Czech expert in waste management

An alumna from Biogas Research Team presented her scientific findings at the traditional November ELLS conference!

Falling Walls Lab is an international forum for the next generation of early-career innovators, trailblazers, creators, and visionaries. 

říká Hynek Roubík, expert na udržitelné technologie z Fakulty tropického zemědělství České zemědělské univerzity v Praze, který pomáhá farmářům (nejen ve Vietnamu) s využíváním organického odpadu

Kseniia was master student at the Biogas Research Team with her research focused on “The fate of abandoned small-scale biogas plants – case of Vietnam”.

Vědci z České zemědělské univerzity v Praze ukazují druhotné dopady pandemie koronaviru na příkladu Nepálu v rámci dokumentárního filmu "Jak se žije v Nepálu s pandemií"

Poslechněte si rozhovor s odborníkem na zemědělství třetího světa Hynkem Roubíkem z FTZ  a environmentálním historikem Michalem Hejcmanem z FŽP

In this paper we investigate the emission reduction potential of a typical household biogas plant with a volume of 6 m3 and an assumed life cycle of 20 years.

Dr. Hynek Roubík (Group leader of our Biogas Research Team) has been appointed as member of the Journal Topic Board of Environments.

In this paper we identify the system of implementation of small-scale biogas technology from the farmer’s perspective, presenting all of the major stakeholders, factors and processes involved and to establish the principle relationships and feedbacks among them.

In December 2019 Dr. Hynek Roubík – Group leader of Biogas Research Team spent couple of weeks in Uppsala on Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Uppsala University as well as in RISE – Research Institutes of Sweden.

Ghaith is PhD student at the Biogas Research Team with his research focused on Social and economic assessment of small-scale biogas plants in the developing world: A case of Syria.

In this paper we investigate the potential development of small-scale biogas plants and their suitability in rural Sumatra

In this paper, we describe research into the biochemical processes of brown coal treatment. s. The modified biochemical model was formed from a complex biological treatment of low-rank coals with an added cycle of aerobic conversion and the process of converting a sulphur compound under anaerobic conditions, as well as a number of ecological-trophic groups of microorganisms.

Dr. Hynek Roubík (Group leader of our Biogas Research Team) has been appointed as member of the Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences

Due to the long-term cooperation in Ukraine, another colleague came to visit our Biogas Research Team. This time Associate Professor Yelizaveta Chernysh.

As follow-up of our project “Support of young university capacity in education and research and science activities in Ukraine” supported by Czech Republic Development Cooperation two scientists from Ukraine visited our Biogas Research Team.

With the collaboration between the Euroleague for Life Sciences (ELLS) members and other new contribution from New Zealand and Israel, the ELLS Scientific Student Conference was held in Uppsala in Sweden on 15^th and 16^th of November 2019.

Check the new research paper on the dynamic complexity of biogas technology. You can read it here.

In November 2019, our Biogas Research Team co-organized conference in Bila Tserkva (Ukraine).

On October 22th 2019, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague was hosting a meeting with Mr. René Castro Salazar, Assistant-Director-General of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and leader of the Climate, Biodiversity, Land and Water Department.

Dr. Hynek Roubík (Group leader of Biogas Research Team) was among panelists in discussion with topic of: “Will we suffocate in waste or are there other solutions?”.

Since 1999, the Tropentag conference has held its annual meetings under the patronage and support of many European universities.

It means he was among the top 1% of reviewers in Essential Science Indicators (ESI) for Environment and Ecology research field. Rankings are calculated by number of verified pre-publication reviews performed and added to Publons between 1 September 2018 and 1 September 2019. Reviews were attributed to an ESI field based on the journal the review was performed for. There was added a 22nd field, "Cross-field" to celebrate reviewers whose contributions were for the amount of journals on Publons that could not be directly matched to an ESI field, where Dr. Hynek Roubík was also among the top 1% of reviewers.

On Monday (2.9.2019) a guest lecture focused on: "Challenges for sustainable smallholder beef production in a rapidly changing ASEAN environment – insights from recent case studies in Indonesia and Vietnam" was delivered by Jeff Corfield (consultant to recent Australian Centre for International Agriculture Research (ACIAR)).

V srpnu jsme ve střední Ukrajině organizovali pod vedením Ing. Hynka Roubíka, Ph.D. (z našeho Biogas Research Team) další terénní výzkum studentů FTZ společně se studenty a mladými vědeckými pracovníky ze tří dalších Ukrajinských univerzit – ze Sumy National Agrarian University, Sumy State University a Bila Tserkva National Agrarian University. Celkem se účastnilo 22 účastníků a vše probíhalo v rámci projektu „Podpora mladých univerzitních kapacit v oblasti kvality vzdělávání a vědecko-výzkumných aktivit na Ukrajině“ podpořeného Českou rozvojovou agenturou.

Read an interesing report from student (Gaurav Khanna) internship at our Biogas Research Team

On Friday (24/05/2019) Ing. Hynek Roubík, Ph.D. and Ing. Anna Brunerová, Ph.D. held scientific seminar focused on "Research, Scientific Article Content, and International Publication" for researchers and graduate students from University of Lampung, Indonesia. The seminar was opened by the vice-rector and lasted from early morning until the noon. 

Check the new research paper on Identification of Context-Specific Knowledge as a Tool for Biogas Facilitators and Their Quality Involvement. You can read it HERE.

Biogas Research Team is currently looking for PhD students! You can find the topics in attached file. 

Call for papers for Special Issue on: "Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy and Climate Change" with Dr. Hynek Roubík (Group leader of our Biogas Research Team) acting as Guest Editor in the International Journal of Global Energy Issues journal.

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue Biofuel and Bioenergy Technology that was published in Energies. 

Check the new research paper on biogas appliances with a focus on a flue gas analysis of biogas cook stoves. You can read it here.

V pondělí 29. října se uskutečnilo Slavnostní zasedání Vědecké rady ČZU, která se konala u příležitosti výročí 100 let od vzniku Československa.

V pondělí 29. října se uskutečnilo Slavnostní zasedání Vědecké rady ČZU, která se konala u příležitosti výročí 100 let od vzniku Československa.

V roce 2018 se podruhé podařilo některému z doktorandů Fakulty tropického zemědělství umístit mezi nejlepšími doktorandy z celé ČZU.

Dear colleagues, let me happily invite you to the the International Scientific Conference entitled: 10th Forum of Ecological Engineering 

which will take place in Kazimierz Dolny (a small town in central eastern Poland) from 9th to 11th of September 2019.

Hynek Roubík from our #BiogasResearchTeam – the youngest editorial board member of Journal of Ecological Engineering - became the youngest editorial board member of Journal of Vietnamese Environment

Our new research paper entitled: “Biogas Quality across Small-Scale Biogas Plants: A Case of Central Vietnam” has been just published!

This March had Hynek Roubík from BIOGAS RESEARCH TEAM plenary speech at the 2nd Conference on Valorisation of Agricultural Residues in Vietnam 

Our new paper dealing with entitled: “Current approach to manure management for small-scale Southeast Asian farmers - Using Vietnamese biogas and non-biogas farms as an example” has been published in Renewable Energy! You can read it here.

Introducing Biogas Research Team - revealing current state, bottlenecks and perspectives of small- and medium-scale biogas plants in Southeast Asian countries by Hynek Roubík and Jana Mazancová. 

Hynek Roubík presented his research focused on "Small- and medium-scale biogas plants in Sri Lanka: Case study on flue gas analysis of biogas cookers" in the 7th International Conference on Biosystems Engineering 2016