Environment:
• Biological breakdown of resistant, toxic organic substances or mixed pollutants (organochlorine, industrialdyes, nitro-aromatic compounds, endocrine disruptors)
• Purification, recycling and valorization of industrial and urban wastewater
• Processing of biowastes ; Bioremediation of contaminated soils and wastes; Biodegradation of recalcitrant, persistant pollutants
• Recovery, treatment and use of biogas Bioprocess engineering:
• Design of bioreactors and bioprocesses
Equipment :
• Axenic (sterile) and environmental, aerobic and anaerobic, bioreactors (0,5 - 2400 L)
• Temperature controlled rooms with safety ventilation against toxic or flamable gases accumulation
• Pilot hall
• Laboratory to handle biomass & environmental samples
• Chemical analyses of complex environmental matrices (chromatographies HPLC, GC, spectrometry,...)
Service proposal :
• Investigation, design and monitoring of bio-processes for industrial molecules degradation or bioconversion
• Biodegradation/bioconversion investigations
• Bioenergy from micro-algae
• Process for the decentralised conversion of agricultural and residual herbaceous biomass to bioethanol: optimization of the choice of biomass and of conversion efficiencies
• Development of an integrated conversion route to produce 2d generation biofuels from lignocellulosic biomass.
• Improved process for anaerobic digestion of biomass with acidifying fermentation profile;
Enterprise
Université Catholique de Louvain
Enterprise number : 0419052272
Adresse
Applied Microbiology - Bioengineering Unit - UCL OLLN
Place Croix du Sud
2
1348
Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgique