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SUMMARY:Plenary Lecture 16: Managing microbial communities in anaerobic me
 mbrane bioreactors - Raskin\, L (University of Michigan)
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CONTACT:Mustapha Amrani
DESCRIPTION:Anaerobic membrane bioreactor (AnMBR) systems have recently co
 me to the forefront as promising options for mainstream anaerobic treatmen
 t of domestic wastewater. Our research has demonstrated with a bench-scale
  AnMBR that this technology can produce effluent quality comparable to act
 ivated sludge treatment at temperatures as low as 6C. However\, we have al
 so demonstrated that this technology can only become competitive as an alt
 ernative domestic wastewater treatment option after addressing its high gl
 obal warming potential due to the presence of dissolved methane in the per
 meate and the high energy demand for fouling control. While these appear t
 o be typical process engineering problems\, we contend that management of 
 the complex anaerobic microbial communities in AnMBR is an essential compo
 nent of solving these challenges and will show experimental data in suppor
 t of this statement.\n
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Newton Institute
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