Guillermo Quijano is now professor at Agricultural Engineering School

Our former researcher Guillermo Quijano got a position in the Agricultural Engineering School of the University of Valladolid, located in Soria. The best wishes for him in this new academic challenge. Although the collaboration of the VOC & Odour Treatment Group with Guillermo will continue, he will start a new research team in Soria.

Armando González visits the VOC & Odour Treatment Team

We are very happy to receive Armando González from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) as a visiting professor. Here some pictures:

Farewell dinner for Roxana

Some pictures of the Roxana's farewell dinner. It has been a pleasure to have Roxana in the VOC & Odour Treatment Team. We will miss you!! Have a nice trip to México.

Luc Malhautier visits the University of Valladolid

We are very happy to receive Luc Malhautier in the University of Valladolid as a visting Professor. 

Luc works in the Laboratoire Génie de l’Environnement Industriel at the Ecole des Mines d’Alès (France).

Welcome to Valladolid Luc!!

Some pictures of Raúl Muñoz in the Cost Action Water_2020 meeting in Verona, Italy.

More than 30,000 visits!

We crossed up the 30,000 visits barrier! Many thanks for your visits and support.

Cynthia and Esther in the RRB-10

Our researchers Cynthia Alcántara and Esther Posadas participated in the 10th edition of the International Conference on Renewable Resources & Biorefineries held in Valladolid, Spain. Here some pictures:



Cynthia Alcántara during her oral presentation on "Integrated microalgae growth-anaerobic digestion process as a biofuel technology production: mass and energy balances"



Esther Posadas during her oral presentation on “Biogas upgrading coupled with nutrient removal from centrates and lipid accumulation using microalgae-based processes”


Esther Posadas with her poster "Algal-bacterial biomass removal from fish farm wastewater treatment using coagulation/flocculation processes"


Sharing ideas at the coffee break…



Professor Yusuf Chisti visiting the VOC & Odour Treatment Team facilities. From left to right: Raúl, Yusuf, Cynthia, Esther and Jesús.



Some members of the "Valladolid University team" at the dinner Conference



Enjoyable time with Yusuf Chisti and Emilio Molina Grima



Cynthia Alcántara receiving a bottle of Yllera red wine during the celebration of the “Golden Crop Award”



See you soon!!



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Raúl Muñoz is now Editor of Biotechnology Reports

We are very proud to announce that Professor Raúl Muñoz is now Editor of Biotechnology Reports, the new Journal of Elsevier on Biotechnology. Are you ready to submit your work to this journal? Congratulations Raúl!!

The new papers on algal-bacterial systems for wastewater treatment

Have you read our freshly baked papers on wastewater treatment by means of algal-bacterial systems? Check them out!!

i-Ambiente: Blog of Raúl Muñoz

Have a look on the new contribution of Professor Muñoz to i-Ambiente, where he explains the new project of the VOC & Odour Treatment Team: "Biological Treatment of Biogas Pollutants"

Check out our new publication in Journal of Hazardous Materials

Have a look on our new publication on hexane abatement and spore emission control. This work has been carried out in collaboration with Professor Sonia Arriaga from the Institute for Scientific and Technological Research of San Luis Potosi, IPICYT.

A new paper on methane abatement published in Chemical Engineering Journal

Check out our new publication in Chemical Engineering Journal on methane abatement in biotrickling filters.

Visit of professors Tatsuki Toda and Syuhei Ban

Some pictures of the visit of professors Tatsuki Toda (Soka University) and Syuhei Ban (University of Shiga Prefecture) from Japan to the facilities of the Environmental Technology Group at University of Valladolid.

A new generation of two-liquid phase bioreactors for methane removal

Sara will be working on the abatement of CH4, one of the most harmful greenhouse gasses, with a new generation of two-liquid phase bioreactors (TLPBs). Conventional TLPBs are based on the addition of a non-aqueous phase (e.g. silicone oil) with a high affinity for the target pollutant. However, improved TLPB performance can be achieved by using hydrophobic microorganisms able to grow in the non-aqueous phase, taking advantage of the full concentration gradient available for mass transfer between the gas and the non-aqueous phase.

Our facilities and researchers!

Have you seen our facilities at University of Valladolid?... If you don't, here are some 360º pictures of our laboratories. Can you find LittleVOC & TopoKat?

Carbon/nitrogen removal in anoxic-aerobic algal-bacterial photobioreactors!

Cynthia and Jesús starting with a new experiment: Quantification of N2O emissions and carbon/nitrogen removal in an anoxic-aerobic algal-bacterial photobioreactor configuration during wastewater treatment. The setup looks great guys!

Santa Valvula 2014

Santa Válvula, the Chemical Engineering celebration at University of Valladolid is over, however, nice images still remain in our mind!!

José Estrada successfully defended his PhD thesis

Congratulations José!! Here some pictures of the dissertation:

Jose Estrada will be defending his PhD thesis the next monday

Time passes quickly and the PhD thesis defense of José Estrada will be the next monday 28th. All the team will be supporting him -including Little VOC-.

 

Paella time for the VOC & Odour Treatment team

Besides being hard workers in the lab, our researchers are also able to cook delicious rabbit Paella. Here some pictures!

New researchers, new projects, new experiments... check them out!

We are preparing new experiments for the next months. Here some pictures of our researchers doing the hard work!