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

长期以来，废水一直被认为是人类健康问题和环境危害，因此，处理后产生的废水具有令人满意的质量，可以排放到环境中。目前正在进行一种范式转变，从将废水处理为废物，向积极主动的能源和物质资源转变。拟议研究计划的总体目标是开发经济、稳健和高效的工艺来生产生物能源，并从废水中回收有价值的化学品和生物材料，将废水转化为有价值的资源，从中回收不同的增值产品，包括营养物质、能源和水。在这项研究计划的主题下，开发了一种创新的生物技术，旨在从市政和工业废水中生产和回收可再生生物能源和生物材料。这项提议的第一个重点领域是将生物膜工艺纳入从城市和工业废物流中回收生物能源。这项研究计划的第二个重点领域是增值材料的回收和生产，即生物甲醇(CH

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