Our group members Raúl Muñoz, Raquel Lebrero, Nicolás Díaz, Maya Yescas, André Borges and Francesca Di Benedetto attended the '7th IWA International Conference on eco-Technologies for Wastewater Treatment', held in Stockholm (23-36 June, Sweden).

Raquel presented the keynote 'From Gas Emissions to Resources: Integrating Waste Gas Valorization into Advanced Biorefineries'

Raúl presented the oral communications 'Biogas conversion into ectoines: osmolytes extraction through enhanced biomilking' and 'Valorizing biogas into ectoine and pigments: the role of methanotrophic cultures and algal methanotrophic co-cultures'

Nico presented the oral communication 'BTEXS continuous bioconversion into PHA through a two-step system based on a Cupriavidus necator culture'.

Maya presented the oral communication 'Innovative Microbiological Approaches to enhance Biogas production from Syngas and Carbon Monoxide'

André presented the oral communication 'Reducing carbon footprints in high strength H2S acidogenic emissions: A synergistic microalgal-bacterial solution for sugarcane biorefineries'

Francesca presented the oral communication 'From digestate and CO2 to single-cell proteins: combined by-product valorization for circular carbon and nutrient utilization'

New paper accepted at Polymers

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Enhancing Bioplastic Degradation in Anaerobic Digestion: A Review of Pretreatment and Co-Digestion Strategies

New paper accepted at Journal of Water Process Engineering

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Innovative ammonia recovery and biogas enhancement via direct contact membrane distillation in thermophilic anaerobic digestion of mixed sludge

New paper accepted at Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering

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Biogenic hydrogen production from household food waste via lactate-driven dark fermentation: A comparative study of single-stage and two-stage configurations

New paper accepted at Science of The Total Environment

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Evaluation of the performance of iron-supplemented pelletised compost as packing material in biofilters for odour abatement in domestic wastewater treatment plants

Meet our new researchers!

Paula and Juan. Most welcome!

Paula joined the gas treatment and microalgae research group as a PhD student. Her research focuses on biogas upgrading with extremophile microorganisms and applying high-performance biotechnologies

Juan joined the Gas Treatment and Microalgae Research Group as a PhD student. His thesis will be focused on upgrading biogas to biomethane using hydrogenotrophic methanogens.

New paper accepted at Resources, Conservation and Recycling

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Transitioning towards standardised circular economy assessments; application to high-value production from OFMSW biogas

New paper accepted at Environmental Technology & Innovation

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Trisynergy of photosynthetic biogas upgrading, anaerobic digestate bioremediation, and pigment biosynthesis

New paper accepted at Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering

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Optimizing the composition of bioactive coatings to support toluene removal

New book chapter published in

Advanced Technologies in Wastewater Treatment, a volume of Food, Pharmaceutical and Chemical Industry

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Recent advances in the removal of pharmaceutical residues in anaerobic digesters

New paper accepted at Renewable Energy

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Long-term effects of liquid nanoparticles on algal growth and photosynthetic biogas upgrading

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New paper accepted at Water

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Comparative Analysis of Livestock Wastewater Reuse Under Summer and Winter Conditions at a Scale-Down Microalgae Culture

 Our group member Antonio León attended the 1st International Conference on Algal Biotechnology  held in Lisbon (from 9 to 11 of April), where he presented 'Engineering of a microalgal-bacterial consortium for the removal of organic pollutants from petrochemical industry' and 'Antiviral activity in different species of microalgae: a promising approach to discover new high-value molecules'.

New paper acepted at Energy Reports

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Biogas energy recovery in brazilian wastewater treatment plants: A multi-level perspective on technological transition

New paper acepted at Journal of Water Process Engineering

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Developing a microalgal-bacterial consortium for the removal of organic pollutants from petrochemical industry

New paper acepted at International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

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Assessment of the recovery of hydrogen production activity in dark fermentation reactors after a long period of shutdown

Meet our new researchers!

Jesús and Raffaele. Most welcome!

Jesús joined the gas treatment and microalgae research group as a postdoctoral researcher. His research focuses on developing an advanced multi-platform biorefinery for food waste valorization.

Raffaele joined the gas treatment and microalgae research group as a PhD student. His research line focuses on photosynthetic biogas upgrading through the use of microalgae and nanoparticles.

Meet our new researchers!

Vanessa and Mario. Most welcome!

Vanessa joined the gas treatment and microalgae research group as a master´s student. Her research focuses on the transformation of syngas into high-value products

Mario joined the gas treatment and microalgae research group as a master´s student. His research line focuses on the valorisation of VOCs into value-added products

Meet our new researchers!

Joel and Gabriela. Most welcome!

Joel joined the gas treatment and microalgae research group as a PhD student. His research is focused on the treatment of VOCs and odour streams by means of bioelimination from municipal waste treatment plants (MWTP).

Gabriela joined the gas treatment and microalgae research group as a visiting PhD researcher. Her research focuses on the removal of bacteria, viruses, and contaminants from municipal wastewater using microalgae-bacteria systems.

New paper acepted at Journal of Water Process Engineering

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Biological elimination of dilute methane through multi-channel Taylor flow capillary bioreactors