Advanced Biological Waste to Energy Technologies (BioWET) Summer School
Mon. 16-July
9:00-12:00
BioWet Kick-Off Meeting
1:00-3:00 Meet with
students taking course
July 16-20, 2012, University of South Florida, Tampa Florida
Tues. 17-July
Wed. 18-July
Thurs. 19-July
9:00 Welcome
9:00 Jeníček 9:45 Lens - Biofuel
Microaerobic sludge AD
Lakeland BioEnergy:
9:45 Bartáček - Fermentive
production from solid
2- Phase Thermophilic AD
waste and wastewater
H2 production
Constructed Wetlands
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
(tentative)
11:00 Jeníček 11:00 Lens - Upgrading
Wastewater & energy Biogas Quality
11:45 Butler - BioPrague’s experience
USF Polytechnic Algal
11:45 Yeh - Anaerobic
electrochemical Systems:
Biofuels Laboratory
Membrane Bioreactors
Energy & Wastewater
(confirmed)
12:30 Wilkie - Biogas from
12:30 Wilkinson livestock wastes
Gastrobotics
Lunch
1:30 Wilkie - Algae
Student Presentations:
1:00 Presentation 1
Bioprospecting
2:15 Ergas - Integration of
1:20 Presentation 2
1:40 Presentation 3
algae with wastewater
3:00 Zhang - Life Cycle
2:00 Presentation 4
2:20 Presentation 5
Assessment of Algal
Polk Co. Landfill
Biofuels
Bioreactor
Break
Break
(tentative)
3:15 Reinhart - Landfill
Student Presentations:
3:00 Presentation 6
Bioreactors
4:00 Bartáček - Solid
3:20 Presentation 7
3:40 Presentation 8
Wastes Dry Fermentation
4:00 Presentation 9
4:20 Presentation 10
Fri. 20-July
Optional Field Trips*:
Mote Aquaculture Park,
Sarasota FL (~ 1.5 hour
drive from Tampa
tentative) Aquaponics
Pilot System
Algenol Biofuels, Ft.
Meyers FL (~ 1.5 hours
from Sarasota tentative)
* Note: Mote is 1.5 hours south of USF and Algenol is another 1.5 hours south of Mote. Participants can either travel back to Tampa Friday night,
fly home from Ft Meyers Airport, or stay down in the Ft Meyers area, where there are lovely beaches and nature preserves. Ft. Meyers is also a
good jumping off place if people want to head across Alligator Alley to go to Miami or other points on the East Coast of Florida.
Biographical Sketches
Jan Bartacek is an assistant professor in the Department of Water Technology and Environmental Engineering at the Institute of Chemical
Technology (ICT) Prague. His main research area is wastewater technology, especially resource recovery from wastewater (energy and nutrients
recovery). In this field, he is running a research project funded by Marie Curie fundation: Biofilms in bioreactors for advanced nitrogen removal
(BioNIT). Next to this, he continues with his previous research focused on essential metals in anaerobic granular sludge (chemical speciation,
bioavailability) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of transport processes in methanogenic granular biofilm.
Caitlyn Butler is an assistant professor in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Massachusetts. Dr. Butler
came to UMass from the Department of Engineering in College of Technology and Innovation at Arizona State University, where she was also an
assistant professor. She did her graduate work in Environmental Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Butler’s research focuses on
energy and resource recovery in wastewater treatment, emphasizing the use of bioelectrochemical systems in remediating environmental
contaminants.
Sarina Ergas is a professor and graduate program coordinator in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of South
Florida. Before coming to USF, she taught and conducted research at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst for over fifteen years. Her
research focuses on environmental biotechnology, recent projects include sustainable algal biofuel production from wastewater nutrients,
bioretention systems for nitrogen removal from stormwater, treatment of perchlorate contaminated groundwater using sulfur oxidizing bacteria,
biological treatment of ion exchange brines, bioremediation of acid mine drainage sites and sulfur oxidizing and hydrogenotrophic denitrification.
Pavel Jenicek is an associate professor and head of the Department of Water Technology and Environmental Engineering at ICT Prague. He is
active in the research of anaerobic wastewater treatment, biogas treatment, anaerobic digestion of sludge, minimisation of sludge production,
biological nutrient removal and recovery. Dr. Jenicek has extensive experience in combination of anaerobic and aerobic processes especially with
use of microaerobic conditions for biogas desulphurization and anaerobic digestion process improvement. He is member of Management
Committee of Specialist Group on Anaerobic Digestion and Specialist Group on Sludge Management at International Water Association.
Piet Lens is professor of Environmental Biotechnology at the Pollution Prevention and Control core of the Department of Environmental
Resources of UNESCO-IHE. Previously, he was on the faculty of the Sub-Department of Environmental Technology at Wageningen University
(1999-2006). He has also held visiting faculty appointments at the Universities of Louvain La Neuve (UCL) and Leuven (KUL). Prof. Lens trained
in Environmental Sanitation, and then obtained his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering at the University Gent (Belgium). His research focuses on
biofilms, sulfur biotechnology, metal speciation, bioavailability and removal, natural treatment systems, anaerobic wastewater and waste gas
treatment for resource recovery and reuse. He is also a leader in education and capacity-building, organizing study-days, conferences, summer
schools and short courses.
Debra Reinhart
Ann C. Wilkie is an Associate Professor of Bioenergy and Sustainable Technology in the Soil and Water Science Department at the University of
Florida-Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF-IFAS). Her specialty is environmental microbiology, with particular emphasis on
anaerobic technology and algal biofuels. Her current projects include diverting food waste from landfills for biogas production and
bioprospecting of oleaginous algae for biodiesel production.
Stuart Wilkinson
Dr. Daniel Yeh is an associate professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering. He is a registered professional engineer in Florida and a LEED
accredited professional. He teaches classes on water quality and treatment, environmental biotechnology and green infrastructure. He has
expertise in biological systems and water reuse. He has developed a mass balance model for integrating algae biofuel production with municipal
wastewater treatment, and is developing new photobioreactor technologies algal biofuel production.
Qiong Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering. She has expertise in green engineering, sustainability, LCA, waterenergy nexus, environmental fate and transport modeling, and water supply and treatment. Dr. Zhang has several sponsored research projects
that include embodied energy modeling, LCA of bio-energy systems, and sustainability engineering education.