Bioreactors

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A laboratory batch reactor test for assessing nonspeciated volatile organic compound biodegradation in activated sludge. 
  • A novel approach for fouling mitigation in anaerobic-anoxic-oxic membrane bioreactor (A² O-MBR) by integrating worm predation. 
  • A novel flow-perfusion bioreactor supports 3D dynamic cell culture. 
  • A survey of crop-derived transgenes in activated and digester sludges in wastewater treatment plants in the United States. 
  • Acetate promotes microbial reductive debromination of tetrabromobisphenol A during the startup phase of anaerobic wastewater sludge bioreactors. 
  • An adaptable mesocosm platform for performing integrated assessments of nanomaterial risk in complex environmental systems. 
  • Application of a moving bed biofilm reactor for tertiary ammonia treatment in high temperature industrial wastewater. 
  • Arterial reconstruction with human bioengineered acellular blood vessels in patients with peripheral arterial disease. 
  • Assessing the effects of silver nanoparticles on biological nutrient removal in bench-scale activated sludge sequencing batch reactors. 
  • Biaxial Stretch Improves Elastic Fiber Maturation, Collagen Arrangement, and Mechanical Properties in Engineered Arteries 
  • Biological Co-treatment of H2S and reduction of CO2 to methane in an anoxic biological trickling filter upgrading biogas. 
  • Biological treatment of mixtures of toluene and n-hexane vapours in a hollow fibre membrane bioreactor. 
  • Biological waste air treatment in biofilters. 
  • Biomass control in waste air biotrickling filters by protozoan predation. 
  • Biotreatment of groundwater contaminated with MTBE: interaction of common environmental co-contaminants. 
  • Capillary microbioreactors for VOC vapor treatment: Impacts of operating conditions. 
  • Carbon dioxide capture using Escherichia coli expressing carbonic anhydrase in a foam bioreactor. 
  • Cardiac tissue engineering: cell seeding, cultivation parameters, and tissue construct characterization. 
  • Changing mesophilic wastewater sludge digestion into thermophilic operation at Terminal Island Treatment Plant. 
  • Characterization and Adaptation of Anaerobic Sludge Microbial Communities Exposed to Tetrabromobisphenol A. 
  • Cometabolic degradation of TCE vapors in a foamed emulsion bioreactor. 
  • Cometabolism of cis-1,2-dichloroethene by aerobic cultures grown on vinyl chloride as the primary substrate. 
  • Continuous operation of foamed emulsion bioreactors treating toluene vapors. 
  • Cultivation in rotating bioreactors promotes maintenance of cardiac myocyte electrophysiology and molecular properties. 
  • Detailed investigations of dissolved hydrogen and hydrogen mass transfer in a biotrickling filter for upgrading biogas. 
  • Development of foamed emulsion bioreactor for air pollution control. 
  • Differentiation of mammalian skeletal muscle cells cultured on microcarrier beads in a rotating cell culture system. 
  • Dynamic control and quantification of bacterial population dynamics in droplets. 
  • Effect of cyclic strain on tensile properties of a naturally derived, decellularized tendon scaffold seeded with allogeneic tenocytes and associated messenger RNA expression. 
  • Effect of starvation on the performance and re-acclimation of biotrickling filters for air pollution control. 
  • Effects of selected pharmaceutically active compounds on treatment performance in sequencing batch reactors mimicking wastewater treatment plants operations. 
  • Engineering microbial consortia: a new frontier in synthetic biology. 
  • Engineering superficial zone features in tissue engineered cartilage. 
  • Enhanced denitrifying phosphorus removal and mass balance in a worm reactor. 
  • Evaluating the mycostimulation potential of select carbon amendments for the degradation of a model PAH by an ascomycete strain enriched from a superfund site. 
  • Expression of exogenous protein in the egg white of transgenic chickens. 
  • Extracellular mass transport considerations for space flight research concerning suspended and adherent in vitro cell cultures. 
  • High-Performance Biogas Upgrading Using a Biotrickling Filter and Hydrogenotrophic Methanogens. 
  • Impacts of organic carbon availability and recipient bacteria characteristics on the potential for TOL plasmid genetic bioaugmentation in soil slurries. 
  • Kinetics and inhibition of reductive dechlorination of trichloroethene, cis-1,2-dichloroethene and vinyl chloride in a continuously fed anaerobic biofilm reactor. 
  • Kinetics of inactivation of indicator pathogens during thermophilic anaerobic digestion. 
  • Long-term monitoring of bacteria undergoing programmed population control in a microchemostat. 
  • Low-shear modeled microgravity: a global environmental regulatory signal affecting bacterial gene expression, physiology, and pathogenesis. 
  • Mesenchymal stem cells support growth and organization of host-liver colorectal-tumor organoids and possibly resistance to chemotherapy. 
  • Milligram scale production of potent recombinant small interfering RNAs in Escherichia coli. 
  • Miniaturized Biotrickling Filters and Capillary Microbioreactors for Process Intensification of VOC Treatment with Intended Application to Indoor Air. 
  • Modeling of a foamed emulsion bioreactor: I. Model development and experimental validation. 
  • Modeling of a foamed emulsion bioreactor: II. model parametric sensitivity. 
  • Modeling phage induced bacterial disinfection rates and the resulting design implications. 
  • Nitrification of anaerobic digester effluent for nitrogen management at swine farms. 
  • Nitrifying trickling filters and denitrifying bioreactors for nitrogen management of high-strength anaerobic digestion effluent. 
  • Novel Integrated Biotrickling Filter-Anammox Bioreactor System for the Complete Treatment of Ammonia in Air with Nitrification and Denitrification. 
  • Novel anisotropic engineered cardiac tissues: studies of electrical propagation. 
  • Nutrient removal from human fecal sludge digestate in full-scale biological filters. 
  • Odor and volatile organic compound removal from wastewater treatment plant headworks ventilation air using a biofilter. 
  • Odor and volatile organic compound treatment by biotrickling filters: pilot-scale studies at hyperion treatment plant. 
  • Of: Odor and volatile organic compound treatment by biotrickling filters: pilot-scale studies at hyperion treatment plant, H. H. J. Cox, M. A. Deshusses, B. M. Converse, E. D. Schroeder, R. Iranpour 74, 557 (2002). 
  • Operational aspects of the desulfurization process of energy gases mimics in biotrickling filters. 
  • Perchlorate reduction by autotrophic bacteria attached to zerovalent iron in a flow-through reactor. 
  • Performance evaluation of a full-scale innovative swine waste-to-energy system. 
  • Performance of a monolith biotrickling filter treating high concentrations of H₂ S from mimic biogas and elemental sulfur plugging control using pigging. 
  • Physiologic pulsatile flow bioreactor conditioning of poly(ethylene glycol)-based tissue engineered vascular grafts. 
  • Reduction of invasive bacteria in ethanol fermentations using bacteriophages. 
  • Reductive dehalogenation of trichloroethene vapors in an anaerobic biotrickling filter. 
  • Relative gene expression quantification in a fungal gas-phase biofilter. 
  • Removal of ammonia from contaminated air in a biotrickling filter - denitrifying bioreactor combination system. 
  • Resources recovery from high-strength human waste anaerobic digestate using simple nitrification and denitrification filters. 
  • Scaffold-free, Human Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Based Tissue Engineered Blood Vessels. 
  • Scale-up and cost evaluation of a foamed emulsion bioreactor. 
  • Single-pass, closed-system rapid expansion of lymphocyte cultures for adoptive cell therapy. 
  • Sulfur dioxide treatment from flue gases using a biotrickling filter-bioreactor system. 
  • Technical and economical analysis of the conversion of a full-scale scrubber to a biotrickling filter for odor control. 
  • The removal of H2S from process air by diffusion into activated sludge. 
  • Tissue engineering of functional cardiac muscle: molecular, structural, and electrophysiological studies. 
  • Transformation of pristine and citrate-functionalized CeO2 nanoparticles in a laboratory-scale activated sludge reactor. 
  • Use of flow, electrical, and mechanical stimulation to promote engineering of striated muscles. 
  • Utility of telomerase-pot1 fusion protein in vascular tissue engineering. 
  • Versatile biomanufacturing through stimulus-responsive cell-material feedback. 
  • [Characteristics and affecting factors of denitrifying phosphorus removal in two-sludge sequencing batch reactor]. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Allori, Alexander C, Associate Professor of Surgery, Surgery, Plastic, Maxillofacial, and Oral Surgery
  • Bursac, Nenad, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering
  • Deshusses, Marc, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nicholas Institute-Energy Initiative