Bioprocess Engineering Laboratory

Main research line: design of industrial biotechnological processes

Topics: butanol production by anaerobic fermentation; microalgal biorefinery; production of chemical building block from industrial fermentation; carbon capture and sequestration with enzymes; bioremediation of industrial wastewater with high aromatic content; adsorption and bioconversion on biological matrixes.

Key enabling technologies at worldwide level: characterisation of kinetic/stoichiometry of the growth and metabolism of microrganism in industral fermentation, chemical conversion assisted by enzymes; design of novel bioreactos, modeling and simulation of bioreactor operation, techno-economic analysis of bioprocess in the biorefinery; characterisation of hydrodynamic and transport phenomena in gas-liquid and gas-liquid- solids systems

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