Head: Prof. Dr. Stanislaw Ledakowicz
RESEARCH AREAS:
I. Biochemical and process engineering
- Development of the process of biosynthesis to mnimize hazardous wastes
- Application of ion exchange to separation and purification of organic acids
- Investigations of filtration and microfiltration processes of biosuspensions
- Bioprocesses integrated with separation of products together with their purification
- Application of digital image analysis to investigate the morphology and physiology of fungi
- Kinetics, modelling and optimization of the following bioprocesses: biosynthesis of lovastatin, citric acid and food colorants; production of fodder yeasts, biogas
- Biosynthesis of secondary metabolites in coculture of filamentous fungi and actinomycetes
- Processes of photobiosynthesis involving microalgae in biorafineries
- Purification of thermostable phycocyanin - a valuable pharmaceutical
- Pyrolysis and gasification processes of biomass
- Ozonation pocesses
- Biomass disintegration pocesses
II. Biotechnology and environmental engineering
- Application of advanced oxidation processes for degradation of xenobiotics, including detergents and dyes in industrial wastewater
- Biodegradation of industrial wastewater (textile, pulp, paper and dairy industry)
- Integration of biological and chemical methods in industrial wastewater tratment
- Toxicity analysis and identyfication of transformation products
- Kinetics, modelling and optymalization of photoprocesses: photocatalysis, photosensitized oxidation, photocatalytic ozonation
- Application of photochemical processes for water disinfection
- Reclamation and inertisation of old landfills
- Investigation of water and wastewater toxicity
- Biological removal of mercury from contaminated soil and wastewater by bacteria
- Heavy metals removal from contaminated soil and ground by biosorption and bioleaching
- Thermochemical utlization of municpal wastes and sewage sludge
- Anaerobic processes in production of biogas and biohydrogen
Specification of research equipment
- Air-lift tower bioreactors with a working volume of 16, 32 dm3 and agitator tank bioreactors with a working volume of 2, 10, 42 dm3, computer-aided air-lift tower bioractors and agitator tank bioreators of volume 3 and 15 dm3 (B. Braun/Sartorius)
- Three identical parallel working agitator tank bioreactors with a working volume of 5 dm3 (Sartorius B-PLUS and B)
- Biostat PBR-2S helicoidal photobioreator
- Varian CP 3800 and SRI Instruments 8610C gas chromatographs
- UHPLC Waters liquid chromatograph with MS and HPLC Agilent, ionic Dionex ICS1000, preparative AKTA pure 25 GE
- R153 Evaporator (Buchi)
- FUNDABACK TSD Biomass separation filter (Mueller)
- ELO 04 Ultrafiltrating modulus (Millipore)
- LS50B Fluorymeter (Perkin Elmer)
- Spectrometer Fluotime 200 (Picoquant)
- Microscopes: Olympus BX 40 with a fluorescent unit, BX 53 with digital camera and image analysis system, BX 51 with camera XC 50 and Olympus Soft Imaging Solutions
- BOD Manometric meter, COD thermostate, DR 2800 and 5000 spectrophotometers (Hach-Lange)
- Laminar chambers: HBB 2448 (Holten) and NU-437-300E (NuAire, Inc)
- NA 2500 Elementary analyser (CE Instruments) and O ECS 4010
- TGA/SDTA 851 Thermobalance (Mettler Toledo)
- BMT Ozone generator and analyzer (Mess-Technik GmbH)
- Microtox 500
- XenoScreen XL YES/YAS
- 2 photoreactors CPC type, thin-film photoreactors, photoreactors with internal light source
- UV-VIS UV Spectrophotometers: UV 300 (Unicam) and Lambda 11 (Perkin Elmer GmbH)
- QMS 200 Quadrapole mass spectrometer (Balzers)
- KL-12 Calorimetric bomb (BIT)
- Horizontal bead mill multi-disc impeller 1 dm3 constructed by our staff and ultrasonic disintegrator VCX-500 Vibra Cell Ultra Sonic Processor (Sonics&Materials Inc)
- Heat chamber with a capacity of 100 dm3 type KC100 (Elkon)
- Micromanipulators TransferMan NK2 - 2 pieces, Cellram vario pump (Eppendorf AG)
- Microscopic heating-cooling table PE120 (Linkam Scientific Instruments)