For those who couldn’t make it on the day, the big-ticket webinar by Prof Bruce Rittmann is now available on Better Water 4 All’s YouTube channel.
Highlights include an inspirational description of how the partnership between microbes and human ingenuity lies at the heart of Environmental Biotech. Some favourite take-out points:
- Make sure you understand stoic, kinetics and mass balance – they are core to everything. Microbes always close the mass balance!
- Microbial communities are smarter than us at finding the best community structure
The case of the the H2 membrane biofilm reactor in the second part of the talk is a fascinating approach to degradation of PFAS and other pollutants – and a great example of the power of combining engineering and microbiology.
“Bruce Rittmann, a giant in our field, offers sage reflections on how to make microorganism work in real life as scale, whilst honouring his colleagues and showcasing his latest research on PFAS” – Prof Tom Curtis
The webinar was a joint initiative by EBNet and Better Water 4 All, with BW4All taking care of all the organisation: huge thanks to the team there!
