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Kirkland, Catherine M. (author), Seymour, Joseph D. (author), Krug, Julia R. (author), Velders, Aldrik H. (author), Vergeldt, Frank J. (author), Van As, Henk (author), van den Berg, L. (author), de Kreuk, M.K. (author), Codd, Sarah L. (author)Despite aerobic granular sludge wastewater treatment plants operating around the world, our understanding of internal granule structure and its relation to treatment efficiency remains limited. This can be attributed in part to the drawbacks of time-consuming, labor-intensive, and invasive microscopy protocols which effectively restrict...journal article 2020
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Pinel, I.S.M. (author), Kim, Lan Hee (author), Proença Borges, Vitor R. (author), Farhat, Nadia M. (author), Witkamp, Geert Jan (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author), Vrouwenvelder, J.S. (author)Phosphate limitation has been suggested as a preventive method against biofilms. P-limited feed water was studied as a preventive strategy against biofouling in cooling towers (CTs). Three pilot-scale open recirculating CTs were operated in parallel for five weeks. RO permeate was fed to the CTs (1) without supplementation (reference), (2)...journal article 2020
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Pinel, I.S.M. (author), Kleikamp, H.B.C. (author), Pabst, Martin (author), Vrouwenvelder, J.S. (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author), Lin, Y. (author)Sialic acids in the structural matrix of biofilms developing in engineered water systems constitute a potential target in the battle against biofouling. This report focuses specifically on the presence of sialic acids as part of the extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) of biofilms forming in cooling towers and the potential effect of...journal article 2020
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Felz, S. (author), Kleikamp, H.B.C. (author), Zlopasa, J. (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author), Lin, Y. (author)Structural extracellular polymeric substances (structural EPS) can form stable hydrogels and are considered to be responsible for the stability of biofilms and aerobic granular sludge. Structural EPS were extracted from aerobic granular sludge and characterized for their gel-forming capacity with different alkaline earth and transition metal...journal article 2020
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Zetty Arenas, A.M. (author)Nowadays, the biotechnology industry is facing the challenge of producing suitable equivalents for petroleum-based products from renewable resources in a sustainable and economically feasible way. Finding cleaner alternatives for gasoline, fuels, and chemicals, has been the subject of research worldwide, whether for economic, geopolitical, or...doctoral thesis 2019
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Valencia, Diego (author)Rapidly expanding urban developments are having an inverse relationship on the surrounding urban environment. Facades and the materials that they are composed of can have a large impact on the warming of urban microclimates. By reducing or cooling the external surfaces of a facade a building maybe able to offset its contribution to the urban...master thesis 2019
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Lopez Pena, L.A. (author)During the primary oil recovery, wells are drilled into the reservoir, and due to natural driving forces, the oil flows to the surface through these production wells. Unfortunately, the production of oil in this first stage is typically between only five and ten percent of the oil in place in the reservoir. In the secondary oil recovery some...doctoral thesis 2019
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Soler Jofra, A. (author), Wang, R. (author), Kleerebezem, R. (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author), Pérez, Julio (author)A lab-scale partial nitritation granular sludge air-lift reactor was operated in continuous mode treating low strength synthetic medium (influent ca. 50 mg-N-NH<sub>4</sub> <sup>+</sup>/L). Granules were initially stratified with AOB in the external shell and NOB in the inner core at 20 °C. Once temperature was decreased progressively from 20...journal article 2019
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Spring, Stefan (author), Sorokin, Dimitry Y. (author), Verbarg, Susanne (author), Rohde, Manfred (author), Woyke, Tanja (author), Kyrpides, Nikos C. (author)Calcifying microbial mats in hypersaline environments are important model systems for the study of the earliest ecosystems on Earth that started to appear more than three billion years ago and have been preserved in the fossil record as laminated lithified structures known as stromatolites. It is believed that sulfate-reducing bacteria play a...journal article 2019
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Jafari, Morez (author), Derlon, Nicolas (author), Desmond, Peter (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author), Morgenroth, Eberhard (author), Picioreanu, C. (author)Poroelastic fluid-structure interaction models were coupled to experimental data to determine the effects of biofilm spatial distribution of mechanical and hydraulic properties on the biofilm hydraulic resistance and compressibility in membrane filtration processes. Biofilms were cultivated on ultrafiltration membranes for 20 and 30 days...journal article 2019
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Felz, S. (author), Vermeulen, Pascalle (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author), Lin, Yue Mei (author)Biofilm structure and functionality depend on extracellular polymeric substances (EPS), but analytical methods for EPS often lack specificity which limits progress of biofilm research. EPS were extracted from aerobic granular sludge and analyzed with frequently applied colorimetric methods. The colorimetric methods were evaluated based on...journal article 2019
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Lopez Pena, L.A. (author), Meulenbroek, B.J. (author), Vermolen, F.J. (author)Successful microbial enhanced oil recovery depends on several factors like reservoir characteristics and microbial activity. In this work, a pore network is used to study the hydrodynamic evolution over time as a result of the development of a biofilm in the pores. A new microscopic model is proposed for biofilm growth which takes into...journal article 2019
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Balasubramanian, S. (author), Aubin-Tam, M.E. (author), Meyer, Anne S. (author)Bacterial biofilms are three-dimensional networks of cells entangled in a self-generated extracellular polymeric matrix composed of proteins, lipids, polysaccharides, and nucleic acids. Biofilms can establish themselves on virtually any accessible surface and lead to varying impacts ranging from infectious diseases to degradation of toxic...journal article 2019
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Yavari, Mohsen (author), Ebrahimi, S. (author), Aghazadeh, Valeh (author), Ghashghaee, Mohammad (author)The relative performance of two biofilm-based airlift reactors using different kinds of packing materials and one fixed bed biofilm reactor with a homemade packing material of high specific area (~ 1000 m<sup>2</sup>/m<sup>3</sup>) was addressed. The bioreactors operated under ferrous iron loading rates in the range of 8–120 mol Fe(II)/m<sup...journal article 2019
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Keuten, M.G.A. (author)As swimmers enter a swimming pool, they release micro-organisms, particles and soluble substances. While chlorine is often used to inactivate micro-organisms, a side-effect of chlorination is the formation of unwanted disinfection by-products. In order to reduce these by-products, more knowledge is needed on the release of pollutants by bathers...doctoral thesis 2018
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Kattenberg, Lotte (author)Due to climate change, our society must become more climate resilient, and this is also the case for drinking water distribution systems. Climate change implicates that temperatures of the atmosphere are getting higher. This may lead to that the drinking water may become warmer. One of the consequences of climate change is that alternative ways...student report 2018
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Schmieden, D.T. (author), Basalo Vázquez, Samantha J. (author), Sangüesa, Héctor (author), van der Does, M. (author), Idema, T. (author), Meyer, A.S. (author)Biofilms can grow on virtually any surface available, with impacts ranging from endangering the lives of patients to degrading unwanted water contaminants. Biofilm research is challenging due to the high degree of biofilm heterogeneity. A method for the production of standardized, reproducible, and patterned biofilm-inspired materials could...journal article 2018
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El Chakhtoura, J. (author), Saikaly, Pascal E. (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author), Vrouwenvelder, J.S. (author)We sampled the tap water of seven unique, full-scale drinking water distribution systems at different locations as well as the corresponding treatment plant effluents to evaluate the impact of distribution and the potential presence of a core drinking water microbiome. The water was also sampled during network flushing to examine its effect on...journal article 2018
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Jafari, Morez (author), Desmond, Peter (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author), Derlon, Nicolas (author), Morgenroth, Eberhard (author), Picioreanu, C. (author)Biofilm formation in membrane systems negatively impacts the filtration system performances. This study evaluated how biofilm compression driven by permeate flow increases the hydraulic resistance and leads to reduction in permeate flux. We analysed the effect of biofilm compression on hydraulic resistance and permeate flux through...journal article 2018
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Picioreanu, C. (author), Blauert, Florian (author), Horn, Harald (author), Wagner, Michael (author)The advantage of using non-invasive imaging such as optical coherence tomography (OCT) to asses material properties from deformed biofilm geometries can be compromised by the assumptions made on fluid forces acting on the biofilm. This study developed a method for the determination of elastic properties of biofilms by modelling the biofilm...journal article 2018