Our group participated in the European Researchers' Night, where the science behind some of our projects was brough closer to people of all ages!

Our group members Sara Cantera and Elisa Huang attended the 14th International Congress on Extremophiles (Extremophiles2024), held in Loutraki (22nd to 26th of September 2024, Greece)

Sara Cantera presented 'Extremophilic cell platforms for CO2 valorization into pharm and cosmetic ingredients'.

Elisa Huang presented 'Guyparkeria halophila as a very efficient microbial platform for the circularization of carbon dioxide and thiosulfate into fine chemicals for the pharmaceutical industry'.

Our group members Raúl Muñoz and Raquel Lebrero attended the 9th International Conference on Environmental Monitoring of Odours and VOCs (NOSE 2024), held in Naples (15-18 September, Italy).

Raúl presented the plenary lecture 'Recent advances on prevention and abatement of odour and VOC emissions'.

Raquel presented 'Marketable high performance compact technologies for the abatement of VOCs in EU waste treatment plants. Decreasing CO2 emissions and energy consumption'.

New paper accepted in Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering

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Membrane materials for biogas purification and upgrading: Fundamentals, recent advances and challenges

New paper accepted at Process Safety and Environmental Protection

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Brewery spent grain valorization through fermentation: Targeting biohydrogen, carboxylic acids and methane production

Our group organized the 1st International Conference on Novel Photorefineries for Resource Recovery (PHOTOREFINERIES 2024), the first conference of the European COST Action PURPLEGAIN (Valladolid, September 9-11, 2024).

The conference reunited researchers, engineers and practitioners to discuss the latest updates on photocatalysis and microbial photosynthesis for the upcycling of carbon and nutrients.

Our group members presented their projects on photosynthetic microorganisms, organic and inorganic carbon conversion and added-value product synthesys.

New paper accepted at Journal of Water Process Engineering

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Continuous two-stage lactate-driven dark fermentation process for enhanced biohydrogen production from food waste

New paper accepted at Bioresource Technology

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Biomethanization of rigid packaging made entirely of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyhexanoate): Mono- and co-digestion tests and microbial insights

New paper accepted at Waste Management

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A comparative assessment of treatment methods to release ferulic and p-cumaric acids from Brewer’s Spent Grains

New paper accepted at Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering

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Multi-channel capillary bioreactor for hydrophobic VOC and CO2 abatement – Process intensification through silicone oil addition

New paper accepted at Biomass and Bioenergy

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Enhanced methane production from food waste: A systematic comparison between conventional single-stage and lactate-based two-stage anaerobic digestion processes

Our group members engaged with colleagues from Zhejiang Ocean University at Biotechniques 2024, which explored shared research areas and interest, a grateful opportunity to collaborate and look forward to future lines of investigation together.

Members from our group attended the '9th International Conference on Biotechniques for Air Pollution Control and Biorefinery (Biotechniques-2024)', held in La Coruña (July 10-12, Spain), contributing with several posters and oral presentations.

Andrés Torres presented 'Innovative Biorefineries for bio-based industries: Bacterial diversity associated with ectoine production in Taylor Flow reactor for biogas valorization'.

Edwin Hoyos presented 'Novel strategies to improve CO2 gas-liquid mass transfer during photosynthetic biogas upgrading'.

Francesca di Benedetto presented 'Microbial cell platforms for CO2 valorization into pharm and cosmetic ingredients' and 'Guyparkeria halophila as a novel cell platform for the efficient valorization of CO2 and thiosulfate into ectoine'.

Eva Marcos presented 'Biological production of pharm ingredients using syngas'.

Nicolás Díaz presented 'BTEX Valorization into High-Value Products: A Circular Approach to Air Treatment'.

Estheisy López presented 'Enhancement of CO2 capture and microalgal biomass production in an AirLift photoreactor under static magnetic field exposure'.

Bart Kraakman presented 'Overcoming Bioavailability Limitations for the Treatment of Low Concentration Gases of Hydrophobic Compounds'.

New paper accepted at Journal of Environmental Management

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Optimization of methane gas-liquid mass transfer during biogas-based ectoine production in bubble column bioreactors

Our group member Roxana Angeles attended the 'European Congress on Biotechnology', held in Rotterdam (30 June - 3 July, the Netherlands), where she presented 'Evaluation and optimization of CO2 capture and biomass valorization into value-added products by the green non-sulfur bacteria Chloroflexus aurantiacus'.

New paper accepted at Polymers

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Exploring 1,3-Dioxolane Extraction of Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) and Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) from Methylocystis hirsuta and Mixed Methanotrophic Strain: Effect of Biomass-to-Solvent Ratio and Extraction Time

Our group member Yadira Rodríguez visited the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering of the 'Università degli Studi Napoli Federico II' (Naples, Italy) in a one-week teaching stay (Erasmus+  KA131 program).

Yadira presented several lectures on biohydrogen production, biogas upgrading and biogas bioconversion into added-value products.

She also presented the scientific seminar 'Innovative biotechnologies for biogas upgrading and bioconversion into value-added chemicals' to researchers and professors.

 Members from our group attended the '18th IWA World Conference on Anaerobic Digestion', held in Istambul (June 2-6, Turkey), contributing with posters and oral presentations.

Raquel Herrero presented 'Biogas and beyond: Bioconversion of methane to ectoine in a Taylor flow bioreactor'.

Octavio García presented 'Volatile fatty acids production from bioplastics: A new opportunity to create a closed-loop bioplastics supply chain'