Mechanistic understanding of mixed-culture fermentations by metabolic modelling

• Autores: Alberte Regueira López
• Directores de la Tesis: Juan Manuel Lema Rodicio (dir. tes.), Miguel Mauricio Iglesias (dir. tes.)
• Lectura: En la Universidade de Santiago de Compostela ( España ) en 2020
• Idioma: inglés
• Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Jean Philippe Steyer (presid.), Eva Balsa-Canto (secret.), Korneel Rabaey (voc.)
• Programa de doctorado: Programa de Doctorado en Ingeniería Química y Ambiental por la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
• Materias:
  • Ciencias tecnológicas
    • Tecnología bioquímica
      • Tecnología de la fermentación
      • Microbiología industrial
• Enlaces
  • Tesis en acceso abierto en: MINERVA
• Resumen

  • Biorefineries are set to become an important agent in the shift towards a circular economy due to their potential to valorise organic wastes into marketable products. Anaerobic fermentations yielding volatile fatty acids are a key process in this production scheme as their products act as intermediates between the organic wastes and the final biorefinery products. However, their product selectivity is highly influenced by the environmental conditions and the mechanisms governing the process remain unknown. In this thesis, predictive tools were developed with the objective of understanding the mechanisms governing anaerobic fermentations and of designing processes targeting specific volatile fatty acids with high productivity.