Petrochemical processes have provided low cost production routes for fuels, plastics, and chemicals for over 50 years. Nevertheless, the escalating impact on the environment and the inevitable depletion of fossil feedstocks make it essential that benign, sustainable alternatives be developed commercially in a cost-effective and expedited manner. Biomass-based industrial waste streams could be regarded as sustainable feedstocks for the development of a new industrial sector that integrates chemical and material production into existing industries.
The Environmental Bioprocessing Laboratory (EnB Lab) was established in 2016 as a result of the vision of Dr. Michalis Koutinas (Assistant Professor in Environmental Biotechnology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Cyprus University of Technology). The research direction of EnB Lab aims at the development and application of technological and theoretical advances to offer sustainable solutions to important biological problems.
EnB Lab group interests are in line with EU priorities for waste and natural resources, focusing on the following areas:
EnB Lab has experimental research facilities in the Department of Environmental Science and Technology, specifically in the Laboratory of Biotechnology and it participate in industrially and EU-funded research projects and are members of international associations and networks including the International Forum on Industrial Bioprocesses (IFIBiop) and COST Action TD1203 “Food Waste Valorisation for Sustainable Chemicals, Materials and Fuels (EUBis)”.
The Environmental Bioprocessing Laboratory (EnB Lab) was established in 2016 as a result of the vision of Dr. Michalis Koutinas (Assistant Professor in Environmental Biotechnology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Cyprus University of Technology). The research direction of EnB Lab aims at the development and application of technological and theoretical advances to offer sustainable solutions to important biological problems.
EnB Lab group interests are in line with EU priorities for waste and natural resources, focusing on the following areas:
- Biotechnological applications for the production of added-value chemicals, biomaterials and biofuels from waste;
- Application of biological systems for the treatment of toxic and persistent pollutants from wastewater as well as the treatment of solid waste emitted from natural gas drillings;
- Development of mathematical models for understanding fundamental metabolic properties of the strains employed and the function of the bioprocess applied;
- Utilization of advanced molecular techniques for detecting specific microbial strains used in applied bioprocesses and quantification of important metabolic properties;
EnB Lab has experimental research facilities in the Department of Environmental Science and Technology, specifically in the Laboratory of Biotechnology and it participate in industrially and EU-funded research projects and are members of international associations and networks including the International Forum on Industrial Bioprocesses (IFIBiop) and COST Action TD1203 “Food Waste Valorisation for Sustainable Chemicals, Materials and Fuels (EUBis)”.