Congratulations to Prof James Chong and colleagues at the University of York for their successful Prosperity Partnership proposal with industry partner Yorkshire Water.
The project on Understanding how microbial communities respond to design and process engineering in wastewater treatment (BB/Y003314/1) brings together environmental engineering and genomics to improve bioenergy production and waste management of organic wastes. Aspects considered include
- recovery of volatile fatty acids from wastewater biosolids as building block molecules for the production of bioplastics and other renewable materials
- treatment of microplastics
- future of wastewater treatment e,g. genetic manipulation of biology to enable low energy wastewater treatment, carbon capture, and as an exemplar for biorefining.
The topic is central to EBNet’s Theme 2 on Microbiology/Engineering, and will be interest to members of EBNet’s newly-proposed Anaerobic Fermentation WG, as well the Anaerobic Digestion WG and the Bioinformatics WG of which Prof Chong is co-Lead. Look out for more information under the WG and News pages.
