New paper acepted at Journal of Hazardous Materials

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Assessment of aerobic-anoxic biotrickling filtration for the desulfurization of high-strength H2S streams from sugarcane vinasse fermentation

New paper acepted at Journal of Environmental Management 

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Analysis of biological treatment technologies, their present infrastructures and suitability for biodegradable food packaging - A review

Meet our new researchers!

Ana and Carolina. Most welcome!

Ana joined the gas treatment and microalgae research group as a visiting PhD student. Her research focuses on the production of brohydrogen from agroindustrial feedstocks.

Carolina joined the gas treatment and microalgae research group as a master’s student. Her research focuses on the inactivation of viruses in wastewater.

 New paper accepted at Science of The Total Environment
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Batch and semi-batch anaerobic digestion of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyhexanoate) (PHBH) bioplastic: New kinetic, structural, microbiological and digestate phytotoxicity insights

Our group member Raquel Lebrero has been recognized by Real Academia de Ingeniería de España (RAI) and awarded with the medal Agustín de Betancourt y Molina. Congratulations Raquel!

New paper acepted at Algal Reseach Parameter

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Parameter estimation in anoxic aerobic algal-bacterial photobioreactor devoted to carbon and nutrient removal

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Adela and Francisco. Most welcome!

Adela joined the gas treatment and microalgae research group as a research assistant. Her research focuses on the development of new biorefineries to obtain high-value products from manure.

Francisco joined the gas treatment and microalgae research group as visiting PhD. His research focuses on the assessment of mass transfer in bioreactors.

 New paper accepted at Bioresource Technologies 
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Improving photosynthetic biogas purification via process aeration and nanoparticle supplementation

New paper accepted at Green Energy and Resources

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Optimal control strategy based on artificial intelligence applied to a continuous dark fermentation reactor for energy recovery from organic wastes

New paper accepted at Fermentation 

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Membrane-Assisted Dark Fermentation for Integrated Biohydrogen Production and Purification: A Comprehensive Review

New paper accepted at Journal of Hazardous Materials

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Pilot-scale biogas desulfurization through anoxic biofiltration

New paper accepted at Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology

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Production of hydroxyectoine from biogas by an engineered strain of Methylomicrobium alcaliphilum using a novel Taylor-flow bioreactor

New paper accepted at Journal of Environmental Management
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Evaluation of the influence of the gas residence time and biomass concentration on methane bioconversion to ectoines in a novel Taylor flow bioreactor

New paper accepted at Bioresource Technology

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Syngas biological transformation into hydroxyectoine

New book chapter published in Advances in Sustainable Applications of Microalgae, a volume of Woodhead Series Advances in Pollution Research

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Boosting wastewater-cultivated microalgae metabolism via nanoparticle addition

Our group members Raúl Muñoz, Antonio León and Rebecca Serna attended the '4th IWA-YWP Spain National Conference', held in Bilbao (29-31 October, Spain).

Raúl presented the keynote 'Novel Gas-Phase Biorefineries'.

Antonio presented the oral communication 'Engineering of a microalgal-bacterial consortium for the removal of organic pollutants from petrochemical industry'.

Rebecca presented the oral communication 'Halotolerant methanotrophic community enrichment for enhancing ectoine production from biogas'.

Our group member Sara Sáez attended the ODORA2024 national conference held in Bilbao (5 and 6 of November), where she presented 'Biofiltration of odorous emissions in WWTPs through the reutilization of integral water cycle by-products'.

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Chrysoula and Josivaldo. Most welcome!

Chrysoula joined the gas treatment and microalgae research group as visiting PhD researcher. Her research will be focused on the upgrading of biogas using photosynthetic systems.

Josivaldo joined the gas treatment and microalgae research group as visiting PhD. His research will be focused on the treatment of wastewater from the paper pulp industry using photobioreactors with aerobic bacteria, purple bacteria, and microalgae.

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Sam and Eva. Most welcome!

Sam joined the gas treatment and microalgae research group Marie Curie postdoc researcher. His research will be focused on the bioconversion and valorization of syngas into added-value products using extremophilic purple phototropic bacteria.

Eva joined the gas treatment and microalgae research group as visiting PhD. Her research will be focused on the removal of siloxanes from liquid and gaseous effluents using microalgae cultures.

New paper accepted at Applied Sciences

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Iron (Magnetite) Nanoparticle-Assisted Dark Fermentation Process for Continuous Hydrogen Production from Rice Straw Hydrolysate