Research team
Expertise
In general: • Biological wastewater treatment • Resource recovery and reuse • Sustainable water treatment technology • Cleantech and environmental technology • Microbial biotechnology More specifically: • Nutrient removal and recovery • Microbial technology for resource-efficient nutrient management • Regenerative life support systems (RLSS) for human spaceflight More detailed: "Clean, safe and cost-efficient" =Sustainable: resource efficient, low or positive in energy, minimum emission of greenhouse gases (e.g. N2O) "Microbial technology" • Nitrogen removal: mainstream and sidestream partial nitritation/anammox, nitritation/denitritation • Energy-positive sewage treatment • Production of liquid nitrate-based fertilizers through nitrification • Production of microbial protein for feed and food (single-cell protein) and slow-release fertilizers (microalgae) "To recover resources or treat waste and side streams, or to produce from renewable resources" • Cities (sewage, urine), industry, agriculture (e.g. manure) • Applications on Earth and in Space (regenerative life support systems, RLSS)