Meet our new researchers!

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

Our group members Raúl Muñoz and Andrés Torres attended the Holiwater network meeting on resource recovery from wastewater, which reunited more than 60 scientific and business experts.

New paper accepted at Process Safety and Environmental Protection

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Evaluation of the performance of new plastic packing materials from plastic waste in biotrickling filters for odour removal

 New paper accepted at Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering
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Influence of design and operational parameters of a Taylor flow reactor on the bioconversion of methane to ectoines

Our group members Raúl Muñoz, Cristina Martínez-Fraile, and Octavio García-Depraect participated in the '5th Ibero-American Congress on Biorefineries', held in Jaén (2-4 October, Spain).

Raúl presented a plenary lecture on 'Recent Advances in Gas-Phase Biorefineries'.

Cristina presented her work 'Innovative Process for the Valorization of the Organic Fraction of Municipal Solid Waste through the Production of Biohydrogen via Advanced Lactate-Driven Dark Fermentation'.

Octavio García-Depraect contributed with the poster 'Assessing the Production of Biohydrogen, Organic Acids, and Biogas from Pretreated Brewer's Spent Grain'.

New paper accepted at the International Journal of Pharmaceutics

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In vivo reduction of skin inflammation using ferulic acid-loaded lipid vesicles derived from Brewer’s spent grain

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'.