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Willy Verstraete: Energy from agro-industry wastes

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Professor Willy Verstraete

Microbial Ecology and Technology (LabMET)

Ghent University

 

Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum

Friday, 16th of  Dezember 2011 starting at 15:00
Haus/Room  H VR1

Energy from agro-industry wastes: The quest for more recovery by anaerobic digestion. In the past decades, anaerobic digestion was mainly considered  to be a  technology to 'remove' wastes ; recently  the focus has changed drastically. Biological methane production is  now  a  central process in  the production of energy at the MegaWatt level, and  it fits  also  in the recovery of nutrients and even water  from   secondary  but also primary  materials  The  lecture  covers  a number  of  considerations with respect  the microbiology  and  its  management as the  potential of  anaerobic  digestion is  constantly expanding . Subsequently, several  recent  process  technical tools  are  evaluated  as eg the bio-electrochemical systems and the  membrane reactor systems . Moreover ,  the  feed stocks  currently  applied  are  examined  . Finally,  some future potentials and challenges of AD are discussed in the light of the developing  bio-economy.

Everyone interested is kindly invited

 

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