Wastebiorefining.blogspot.se Website Review

Russia, Iraq, Iran and USA flared (or just burned) natural gas in one year 19.9, 17.8, 17.7 and 9.5 billion m3 every second. It results in 127 million tons of CO2 per year that goes to atmosphere and its energy content that is lost is 714 TWh or 61 million tones oil equivalent (mtoe). These numbers can be compared with the total energy production from biofuels and wastes in the world politicians put political disputes before environmental disasters  and human life. Starch is a major component of our food and even materials. There are a number of companies in the world that produce starch from e.g. potato and wheat. However, the residuals of the potato and wheat ends up in di*ty wastewater that is not so easy to treat by wastewater treatment plants; and the companies have to pay a lot of money to get rid of it. Now, the question is if we can convert these waste and It was the topic of PhD thesis of our PhD candidate Pedro Ferreira de Souza Filho. He worked on converting these types of wastes to fungi for an*mal feed and also some kind of bioplastic materials. He has now nailed his thesis and will defend it in 3 weeks. I wish him good luck. Here is his PhD thesis on “Fungi-based biorefinery model for food industry waste: Progress toward a circular economy 2- Techno-Economic and Life Cycle As*essment of Wastewater Management from Potato Starch Production: Present Status and Alternative 3- Edible protein production by filamentous fungi using starch plant wastewater 4- Vegan-mycoprotein concentrate from pea-processing industry byproduct using edible filamentous fungi 5- A solvent free approach for production of films from pectin and fungal biomas* There are millions of bioreactors in the world for production of ethanol, biogas, antibiotics, lactic acid and other materials. These bioreactors are principally some tanks with some control equipment that should be tight, tolerate all the chemicals and microorganisms inside and the conditions and weather outside and also the pressure of the liquid. These bioreactors are normally made of stainless steel.