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About the research group
Bioenergy group is dealing with the biological conversion of organic matter to either energy carriers such as biogas, bioethanol and biohydrogen by anaerobic biotechnological methods or to direct electricity production by microbial fuel cells. A further benefit of the technology is that the anaerobic conditions favour the degradation of xenobiotic compounds and pathogens. Research spans from fundamental work on areas such as metabolic pathways, microbial enrichments, isolations and characterisation, to more applied issues, such as process monitoring, optimization and control, reactor design and new biotechnological production concepts.
Coordinator: Irini Angelidaki
List over projects: Current Projects
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Biogas process (process imbalances, process optimization, modelling using ADM1, on-line VFA sensor, control strategies, codigestion, pretreatment, energy crops, wastewater treatment)
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Biohydrogen (mixed-culture dark fermentation at hyper-thermophilic temperature, energy crops and household solid waste, isolation and characterization of hydrogen producers)
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Anaerobic Microbiology (microbial ecology of natural and artificially created anaerobic environments, microbiological methods for enrichment and isolation of strict anaerobes, classical and molecular methods for identification of complex microbial communities, anaerobic methabolic pathways)
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Microbial Fuel Cell (lignocellulosic waste to energy, improved MFC configuration, wastewater treatment, xylose degradation)
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Biorefinry (integrated production of energy carriers and other useful by-products, life-cycle analysis) |
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