Code
180E9111
Duration
01 October 2011 → 31 July 2015
Funding
Regional and community funding: various
Promotor
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
- Transport phenomena
- Other (bio)chemical engineering
- Polymeric materials
Keywords
inorganic waste
polyhydroxyalkanoates(PHA)
bioplastics
organic waste
Project description
In this doctoral research a new and sustainable two-stage heterotrophic-autotrophic fermentation process for bioplastics (PHA) production using industrial organic and inorganic wastes as substrate will be developed and optimized. This research mainly focuses on process technical aspects, being reactor design, operation and control. A combination of experimental work, mathematical modelling and simulation is applied in view of process optimization.