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Project
Controlling microbial populations for sustainable wastewater treatment
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
Date:1 Oct 2011 → 30 Sep 2015
Keywords:wastewater treatment, modelling, biofilm reactors, nitrogen removal, system analysis, process control, anaerobic digestion
Disciplines:Transport phenomena, Sustainable and environmental engineering, General chemical and biochemical engineering, Separation and membrane technologies, Catalysis and reacting systems engineering, Other (bio)chemical engineering, Process engineering, Chemical product design and formulation