Have a look on our last publication in Chemical Engineering Journal

Hexane biodegradation in two-liquid phase biofilters operated with hydrophobic biomass: effect of the organic phase-packing media ratio and the irrigation rate

Workshop on Microalgal Biotechnology in IPICYT, Mexico

Some pictures of Raúl during his Workshop "Potential and Limitations of Microalgal Biotechnology for Wastewater Treatment and Biofuel Production". The workshop took place in IPICYT, San Luis Potosi, Mexico. Nice moments with Professor Sonia Arriaga.

  

More than 100 Followers on Twitter!

A great new: we crossed up the "100-followers-barrier" on Twitter. Many thanks to our friends from all around the world who stay tuned by this amazing tool. We are doing our best to share with you useful information and, of course, let you know the activities of the VOC & Odour Treatment Grup of the University of Valladolid.

Have a look on the new publication of the VOC & Odours Treatment Group:

Comparative assessment of a biofilter, a biotrickling filter and a hollow fiber membrane bioreactor for odour treatment in wastewater treatment plants

Water Research

Raúl Muñoz: collaborator of the web portal i-Ambiente

We are proud to announce that Proffessor Raul Muñoz has started collaborating with the spanish web portal i-Ambiente as an expert in Environmental Biotechnology. Have a look on his first article on Odour Abatement in WWTPs (in Spanish). 

Congratulations Raúl!

Our new researcher on molecular biology

Meet  Dr. Ivonne Figueroa whose research focuses on the use of molecular biology techniques for the identification and characterization of microorganisms involved in VOC and Odour biodegradation. Welcome Ivonne!

New experiments on methane removal in biofilters

Raquel, Juan Carlos and Laura started new experiments focused on methane abatement in biofilters. Methane is an important greenhouse gas, however, it has a very limited solubility in water (dimensionless Hery's law constant = 30). Therefore, biological systems usually support a poor performance when dealing with methane. Thus, robust biological technologies must be developed to abate this important gaseous pollutant.

Here Juan Carlos with the experimental system:

The kick off for the pilot studies on hexane removal

Guillermo starts his research stay in the Ecole des mines d'Alès (France). He is working on hexane removal in a two-phase partitioning bioreactor operated as a biotrickling filter. This pilot study will let us know the real potential of TPPBs for full-scale applications.