Researcher

Michiel Van Tendeloo

Research Expertise:Climate change forces humanity to rethink the way we utilise resources and deal with waste streams. To avoid (further) transgression of the Earth’s natural boundaries, more environmentally friendly technologies are needed. Dr. ir. Michiel Van Tendeloo’s research mainly focusses on two topics: i) municipal wastewater treatment & biological nitrogen removal, and ii) CO2 sequestration via enhanced mineral weathering. His skills cover advanced bioreactor design, monitoring biological processes and pilot-scale reactor operation. Skills that will come to great use in his current research project on Bio-Accelerated Mineral weathering (BAM!): https://www.fet-bam.eu/ for which he will take the lead in the development of an advanced multi-phase bioreactor. Michiel’s PhD research focussed on resource-efficient nitrogen removal from sewage to achieve energy-positive sewage treatment. He studied multiple control strategies to steer the microbial community towards the composition needed for mainstream partial nitritation/anammox. During his PhD, he constructed and operated three lab-scale and one pilot-scale bioreactor.

Keywords:ANAMMOX, NITRIFICATION, BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING, ACCELERATED WEATHERING, WASTEWATER TREATMENT, SEWAGE SYSTEM, MICROBIOLOGY, NITROGEN, Applied biological sciences, biotechnology

Disciplines:Biological system engineering, Environmental engineering and biotechnology, Industrial biotechnology, Other biotechnology, bio-engineering and biosystem engineering, Other engineering and technology, (Bio)chemical reactors, Sustainable development

Research techniques:Biological wastewater treatment; Sustainable water treatment technology; Microbial biotechnology; Cleantech and environmental technology; Biological nitrogen removal: mainstream partial nitritation/anammox; CO2 sequestration; Enhanced mineral weathering; Advanced bioreactor design and operation; Pilot operation;

Users of research expertise:Researchers; (municipal) wastewater treatment plant operators; policy makers