Topics of the conference
- Biodegradation and valorization of volatile compounds and air pollutants, including organic and inorganic pollutants, odours, N and S compounds
- Bioconversion and valorization of waste gases and greenhouse gases (e.g. CH₄, CO₂, CO, NOx) to useful products
- Syngas fermentation
- Biogas upgrading, biogas biodesulfurisation, synthesis gas purification
- Bioprocess engineering: bioreactor optimization and development, applied to waste gas treatment (e.g., tranditional bioreactors, fluidized bed bioreactors, membrane bioreactors, two-phase partitioning bioreactor, Taylor flow biorreactor, bioelectrochemical reactor)
- Microbiological aspects of waste gas treatment: physiology and metabolism, new species, microbial populations in bioreactors, application of novel microbiology approaches
- Metabolic engineering, strain improvement
- Integration of non-biological processes: catalytic degradation of pollutants, catalytic conversion of pollutants, catalytic generation of biological products, at room temperature.
- Pilot and industrial scale studies