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Bioenegy Engineering Lab. (BEL)
Chosun University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
Projects
1. Extracellular electron transfer (EET) based anaerobic ammonium oxidation (PI) (2021, Chosun University)
2. Application of shockwave pretreatment for anaerobic co-digestion of algae and livestock manure (PI) (2021~2022, K-water)
3. Anaerobic ammonium oxidation in a single-chamber bio-electrochemical system (PI) (2021~2025, NRF)
4. Hydrogen production from waste aluminum for fuel cell (PI) (2021~2022, Gwangju Green Environmental Center)
5. Bio-electrochemical reduction of non-biodegradable PFAS (Co-PI) (2022~2024, NRF)
6. Making waves: carbon neutral and energy sustainable environmental infrastructures (Co-PI) (2022~2023, Ministry of Environment)
7. Application of enhanced primary treatment for carbon neutral wastewater treatment process (Co-PI) (2022~2024, Ministry of Environment)
8. Bioelectrochemical PFAS removal (Co-PI) (2022~2024, NRF)
9. Carbon neutral strategy for managing livestock manure (PI) (2022~2023, Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs)
10. Establishment of waste sludge analysis methodology (PI) (2023, Ministry of Environment)
11. Co-digestion of food waste and algae (PI) (2023~2024, Gwangju Green Environmental Center)
12. Analysis of micro-pollutants materials in Han River water body (Co-PI) (2023~2024, Ministry of Environment)
13. A study on the standard construction cost for anaerobic co-digestion processes (Co-PI) (2024, Ministry of Environment)
14. Establishment of implementation plans for biogas production obligation system (1) (Co-PI) (2024~2025, Ministry of Environment)
15. Advancement of applied technologies for carbon-neutral primary treatment and bio-gasification of wastewater (PI) (2024~2025, Gwangju-Chonnam regional innovation platform)
16. Enhanced primary sludge recovery using waste Fe scrap electro-coagulation and -filtration system (PI) (2025, Gwangju Green Environmental Center)
17. Establishment of implementation plans for the biogas production obligation system (2) (Co-PI) (2025~2026, Ministry of Environment)
18. Development of pilot-scale bio-electrochemical anaerobic digestion module (PI) (2025~2026, Korea Water Cluster)
BES-ANAMMOX
Our lab aims to make waves towards carbon neutral and energy sustainable wastewater treatment process. Bio-electrochemical anaerobic ammonium oxidation (BES-ANAMMOX) is one of promising and realizable technologies for achieving complete anaerobic N removal. BES's capability to achieve oxygen-free ammonium oxidation may have real-world engineering implications.
Waste to Energy
Technical improvement of various anaerobic bio-processes is one of our lab aims. We try to enhance biogas production from organic wastes and to achieve process stability of anaerobic digestion systems, and to enrich activated microorganism in bio-processes. Our research direction will be helpful to overcome various bottlenecks that bio-processes face with.
Applied machine learning
Machine learning (ML) is gaining attention for predicting bio-process performance, owing to its capacity to capture the non-linear relationships that might exist among variables in a complex system. We aims to imitate microbial metabolism in bio-processes for practical application of ML models. Development of algorithm will be realizable approaches to achieve ML's high applicability.
More value from algae
Micro-algae is valuable biomass that can be converted into useful bioenergy and biogas. We focuses on co-digestion of recovered micro-algae and various organic wastes. A novel micro shock wave technique is applied for algae pre-treatment that enhances biogas yield. The co-digestion process helps various substrates balance each anaerobic reaction rate.