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ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOPROCESS ENGINEERING The core areas of the department are the development of (bio)engineering processes in the ields of water management, bioenergy, environmental technology, algal technology, prod- uct recovery from organic raw / waste materials and interfacial biology. Based on these processes, we are following new ap- proaches to the development of system concepts for energy, waste and water management in industry and for communi- ties. Maximum eficiency is achieved through the integration of several steps to establish short process chains. Research focus Wastewater puriication and water processing methods for industry and municipalities Real-time monitoring of water using biosensors Evaluation of microbial contaminations Concepts for resource-conserving production in companies – the ultra-eficient factory Digestion processes for producing biogas from a wide range of organic substrates in different temperature ranges Technology and expertise High-value products from microalgae and cyanobacteria Isolation and downstream processing of bioproducts for cosmetic, food, feed and pharmaceutical industry (membrane-based iltration processes, process chromatography, liquid-liquid extraction, extraction with supercritical CO2) Downstream processing Biotransformation of organic raw and waste materials as well as of biogas into basic chemicals Process development in bioreactors from laboratory to Bioleaching, biosorption and bioprecipitation processes for pilot and technical scale recovery of valuable substances from residues Development and operation of demonstration plants for aerobic and anaerobic wastewater treatment, high-load digestion, bioenergy, algal technology Analysis of substrates and fermentation products, protein analysis Real-time mass spectrometry Development and operation of apparatuses for testing antimicrobially inished materials Process simulation and automation (MATLAB, Siemens) Contact Dr.-Ing. Ursula Schließmann Head of Department Phone +49 711 970-4222 ursula.schliessmann@igb.fraunhofer.de 3 7