Waste Biorefinery

I guess you have seen disgusting photos of cows or other animals eating wastes in landfill? It is common picture in developing countries.  W...

 In a modern wastewater treatment plant, in addition to carbon (named COD and BOD) removal, nitrogen and phosphorus should also be removed. ...

 Almost half of the fish we eat are farmed in aquaculture, and to grow the fish we consume more than 100 million tons fish feed. Fish meal i...

We have many ethanol plants in the world that use grains as raw materials and produce ethanol and animal feed as the products. However, the ...

 Which came first, #bread or #beer? It is a typical question, but doesn't matter for Rebecca Gmoser . She took whatever leftover from br...

 In a previous thesis , we showed how to produce volatile fatty acids (VFAs) from food wastes. However, what to do if the material are toxic...

Do you know we have ca 200 kg food loss and waste in the world "per person" each year? It is a huge amounts of materials are the w...

Biogas production from food wastes, sludge, or agricultural residuals is easy to produce. The bacteria eat these materials in an oxygen-fre...

Membrane bioreactors (#MBR) are used so far mainly for wastewater treatment, where the reactors are fed with very diluted wastewater. The ...

Do you like orange or apple juice? Do you know while making those juices, half of the apple or orange weight is ended in the wastes? There ...