Renewable Energy Production and Chemical Recovery from Municipal and Industrial Wastewater using Biofilm Processes

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For a long time, wastewater has been considered as a human health concern and an environmental hazard and therefore, treated to produce an effluent with satisfactory quality for discharge to the environment. A paradigm shift from considering wastewater streams as waste to be treated to a proactive energy and material resource is currently underway. The overall objective of the proposed research program is to develop economical, robust and efficient processes to produce bioenergy and recover valuable chemicals and biomaterials from wastewater, in the context of transforming wastewater to valuable resources from which different value-added products including nutrients/material, energy, and water can be recovered. Under the theme of this research program, an innovative biotechnology is developed targeting the production and recovery of renewable bioenergy and biomaterials from municipal and industrial wastewater. The first focus area of this proposal is to integrate biofilm processes into the recovery of bioenergy from municipal and industrial waste streams. The second focus area of this research program is the recovery and production of value-added materials i.e. biomethanol (CH