A Laboratory Bioprocess System for Innovation in Petroleum Waste Treatment

我们需要一个实验室生物处理系统来支持我们的研究项目，以开发基于生物表面活性剂的改进和创新的石油废物处理方法/技术。微生物菌株的生物表面活性剂生产受到多种参数的影响，如碳供应、营养物质、pH、温度、搅拌和曝气。该系统的全面在线控制包括各种传感器（pH, pO2, pCO2，氧化还原，生物质），将确保这些生物工艺参数的优化，以实现最佳的生物表面活性剂生产，使用新型微生物菌株进行创新的修复和油水分离方法的开发。所开发的方法将应用于各种石油废物处理和海上溢油响应作业。该系统的自清洁和杀菌功能大大减少了停机时间，提高了生物工艺吞吐量。所要求的实验室生物处理系统对于团队在UNBC建立独特的研究能力至关重要，以研究适用于我们北部地区的创新石油废物处理方法，那里有许多石油和天然气项目（包括管道和其他形式的运输）正在进行或计划中。所要求的系统将位于我们的北方土壤和地下水修复研究实验室。它将提供给UNBC的研究人员和学生，他们参与/感兴趣的创新，成本效益和环保技术的发展。它也将提供给当地的环境咨询公司和行业，以解决他们的实际环境问题。它不仅将支持申请人的研究项目，还将支持我们现在和未来学生的一些论文项目。预计所要求的系统将在未来五年内直接支持15-20架HQP。

A laboratory bioprocess system is requested to support our research program, which develops enhanced and innovative bio-surfactant-based approaches/technologies for petroleum waste treatment. Bio-surfactant production by microbial strains is affected by a variety of parameters, such as carbon supply, nutrients, pH, temperature, agitation, and aeration. The system's full online control incorporating various sensors (pH, pO2, pCO2, redox, biomass) will ensure the optimization of these bioprocess parameters to achieve the best bio-surfactant production using novel microbial strains for innovative remediation and oil/water separation methods development. The developed methods will be applied to various petroleum waste treatment and marine oil spill response operations. The system's self-cleaning and sterilization function greatly reduces the downtime and increases bioprocess throughput. The requested laboratory bioprocess system is crucial for the team to establish a unique research capability at UNBC for studying innovative petroleum waste treatment approaches that are applicable to our northern region where many oil and gas projects (including pipeline and other forms of transportation) are underway or are planned. The requested system will be located in our Northern Soil and Groundwater Remediation Research Laboratory. It will be available to researchers and students at UNBC who are involved/interested in the development of innovative, cost-effective and environmentally friendly technologies. It will also be available to local environmental consulting companies and industries to address their practical environmental problems. It will support not only the research program of the applicant, but also a number of thesis projects of our current and future students. It is expected that the requested system will directly support 15-20 HQP over the next five years.