Code
3F006211
Duration
01 October 2011 → 30 September 2015
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Engineering and technology
- Catalysis and reacting systems engineering
- Chemical product design and formulation
- General chemical and biochemical engineering
- Process engineering
- Separation and membrane technologies
- Sustainable and environmental engineering
- Transport phenomena
- Other (bio)chemical engineering
Keywords
process control
biofilm reactors
modelling
system analysis
anaerobic digestion
nitrogen removal
wastewater treatment
Project description
This doctoral project deals with the interaction between microbial communities and the applied control strategies in reactors for
(1) innovative nitrogen removal based on ammonium oxidation to nitrite
(2) anaerobic digestion for hydrogen production
The main research objectives are
- mathematical modelling of microbial interactions
- to analyze the influence of process conditions on the steady state and dynamic reactor behaviour
- the development of control strategies for microbial population optimization