Class Environmental Biotechnology

Develop the ability to: i) identify issues related to municipal and industrial waste management and 2) identify microorganisms as key agents in the processes of bioremediation and biodeterioration.

Develop skills related to various biotechnological processes for waste management.

1. Principles of ecotoxicology
   1. Pollutants and their fate in the ecosystem.
   2. Effect of pollutants on organisms.
   3. Effect of pollutants on populations.
2. Introduction to environmental management
3. Waste management using solid state fermentation technology.
   1. Cultivation in solid state.
   2. Application of solid state cultivation to environmental management.
   3. Bioreactors used in solid-state culture processes.
4. Valorisation of organic residues.
5. Anaerobic digestion in suspended bed bioreactors.
   1. Fundamentals of anaerobic bioprocesses.
   2. Advantages and disadvantages of using anaerobic processes.
   3. Configurations and bioreactor operation.
   4. Monitoring and process optimization
6. Waste water treatment.
   1. Objectives, strategies and steps.
   2. Activated sludge processes.
   3. Aerobic and anoxic processing in suspended medium.
   4. Aerobic and anaerobic processing in biofilms.
   5. Anaerobic processing.
   6. Removal of nitrogen and phosphorus.
   7. Sludge treatment.
   8. Natural systems

Use of active methodologies, through platforms such as Moodle. The referred materials include videos, audios, infographics. The students will be given the opportunity to ask questions, discuss the subject and compare answers. Presentation and discussion of case studies, problem solving.

• Hopkin, S.P; Peakall, D.B; Sibly, R.M; Walker, C.H ¿ ¿Principles of Ecotoxicology¿; Fourth Edition; CRC Press, 2012; ISBN: 978-1-4665-0260-4,1466502606
• Perry L. McCarty; Bruce E. Rittmann - ¿Environmental biotechnology: principles and applications¿. McGraw Hill; 2020; ISBN: 9781260441611,126044161X.
• Wang, L.K., Ivanov, V., Tay, J.-H., Hung, Y.-T. ¿ ¿Environmental Biotechnology¿. First edition, Humana Press, 2010. ISBN 978-1-60327-140-0 ¿