Anaerobic Treatment and Resource Recovery from Methanol Rich Waste Gases and Wastewaters

Tejaswini Eregowda was born on 19 October, 1989 in Holenarsipura, India. Raised in Bengaluru, Tejaswini received her bachelor degree in Engineering (Biotechnology) from PES Institute of Technology in 2011 and received AICTE-GATE scholarship to support her master degree in Technology (Environmental Engineering) at Manipal Institute of Technology (2011-2013). She was selected as a student intern to work at Gentech Propogation Ltd (United Kingdom) through the International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience (IAESTE). She has worked at Environmental Management and Policy Research Institute (EMPRI) as information officer for the Environmental Information Systems (ENVIS) division. Tejaswini started her PhD in environmental technology at UNESCO-IHE Institute of Water Education (Delft, the Netherlands) under the framework of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie European Joint Doctorate (EJD) in Advanced Biological Waste-to-Energy Technologies (ABWET), supported by Horizon 2020. During her PhD, she carried out a part of her research at Tampere University of Technology (Tampere, Finland). Her research focused on anaerobic treatment of methanol rich waste-gases and wastewaters, bioreduction of sulfur and selenium oxyanions and to explore resource recovery through the production of methane or volatile fatty acids.

General introduction, Literature review, Selenate and thiosulfate reduction using methanol as electron donor, Performance of a biotrickling filter for anaerobic utilization of gas-phase methanol coupled to thiosulphate reduction and resource recovery through volatile fatty acids production, Gas-phase methanol fed anaerobic biotrickling filter for the reduction of selenate under step and continuous feeding conditions, Selenate bioreduction using methane as the electron donor in a biotrickling filter, Volatile fatty acid production from Kraft mill foul condensate in upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactors, Volatile fatty acid adsorption on anion exchange resins: kinetics and selective recovery of acetic acid, General discussion and conclusions.