Integrated Wastewater Management and Valorization using Algal Cultures

Dr. Goksel N. Demirer is a faculty member in the School of Engineering and Technology at Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI, USA. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, USA. He has been a visiting professor at Tuzla University (Bosnia-Herzegovina), Washington State University (Pullman, WA), RMIT University (Australia), University of Stuttgart (Germany), Villanova University (Villanova, PA), and Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI). He has been working on anaerobic and algal environmental biotechnology, waste valorization, resource efficiency, sustainability, pollution prevention, and industrial ecology for over 20 years. Dr. Sibel Uludag-Demirer is research specialist in the Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering Department and manager of the Anaerobic Digestion Research and Education Center (ADREC) at Michigan State University, Michigan, USA. She received her Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University (Tennessee, USA), Civil and Environmental Engineering. Dr. Uludag-Demirer has been a visiting professor in RMIT University (Melbourne, Australia) and Washington State University (Pullman, WA). She worked in Villanova University (Villanova, PA) as a Marie-Curie Fellow and Drexel University (Philadelphia, PA) as a lecturer. Her research interests are wastewater treatment, and recovery of valuables from waste using biological and chemical techniques. She has worked on algal biotechnology related research since 2014 with a focus of N and P removal from different waste streams and CO2 capture from flue gas using algae cultures.

1. Role of Microalgae in Circular Economy
2. Recent Advancements in Algae-Bacteria Consortia for the Treatment of Domestic and Industrial Wastewater
3. Integrated Algal-based Sewage Treatment and Resource Recovery (STaRR) System
4. Microalgae-based technologies for circular wastewater treatment
5. Treatment of Anaerobic Digestion Effluents by Microalgal Cultures
6. Techno-economic analysis and life-cycle assessment of algal cultivation on liquid anaerobic digestion effluent for algal biomass production and wastewater treatment
7. Biomethane Production from Algae Biomass
8. Anaerobic Digester Biogas Upgrading Using Microalgae
9. Large scale demonstration of microalgae-based wastewater biorefineries
10. Cultivation of Microalgae on Agricultural Wastewater for Recycling Energy, Water and Fertilizer Nutrients