This project is part of a large project, SYNFERON: which is focused on applying mixed microbial consortia on syngas fermentation to liquid and gaseous biofuel, design of novel bioreactors and use of suitable surfactants for increasing the gas/liquid mass transfer efficiency, use of biomimetic membranes and development of diabatic distillation cost-efficient purification and development of an optimized process design and comparison with existing technologies.
The SYNFERON work packages are:
- Biomass Gasification
- Microbial fermentation of syngas.
- Concentrating and separation for liquid alcohols
- Engineering analysis of proposed platform
This PhD project is encompassed in SYNFERON WP4 and the objectives are:
- Investigation of the current technologies in syngas fermentation for fuel production, collecting data from scientific literature and patents
- Process simulation of the designs currently available (so far, only three companies, INEOS Bio, Coskata and LanzaTech have reported the operation of pilot or full scale facilities)
- Define thermodynamic and kinetic parameters for modeling the syngas fermentation systems
- Collect data/models from literature and implement them in the process simulations in order to gain accuracy and capability in the estimations
- Collect data/models from the other team members in order to simulate the process and technologies developed within the SYNFERON project
- Conduct simulation of different possible layouts and perform pinch analysis for determining the highest possible efficiency
- The global aim is to compare several different syngas fermentation designs and benchmarking the performance of the various technologies from a mass, energy, economic and engineering point of view
Coworkers:
PhD student: Morten Jesper Greisen Larsen, KT-CAPEC-PROCES
Post Doc researcher: Mateusz Jakub Lezyk, KT- BIOENG 2
PhD student: Konstantinos Asimakopoulos , KT- PILOT PLANT
PhD student: Antonio Grimalt Alemany, KT-BIOENG 1