• Membrane bioreactors : hydrodynamics modelling, aeration control, simulation, large scale experiments, pharmaceutical micropollutants removal
• Moving Bed Biofilm reactor for Micropollutants removal, biotic and abiotic removal, microbial ecology.
• Innovative coupling for industrial waste water treatment, MBR, O3, NF, biofilm…
• On site wastewater treatment, study of new filtration media

Performed research aim at a comprehensive description of microorganism’s behavior in the environment fixed by the process and its constraints: Diffusional (development of flocs, biofilms, biological interface), mechanical/hydrodynamic (aeration, agitation), biochemical interactions (excreted metabolites) or chemical interactions (metals, coloration, pharmaceutical micropollutants), in the respect of environmental and energetic criteria.

Applications: Industrial and domestic wastewater

Research supervision :

• 20 PhD students
• 5 post-docs

Collaborators:

• Académiques : LCA, LISBP, Ecolab – Toulouse , EPOC –Bordeaux, IRSTEA –Antony et Lyon, LBE-Narbonne
• Collectivité territoriales : SIBA (Arcachon), Sivom (Cugnaux), CHU Toulouse
• Industriels : Polymem, Veolia, Biovitis, Bluestar Silicone, ITREN,
• International: U Twente (NL), KU Leuven (B), Victoria Univ (Australia), ICRA (Spain), Instec (La Havane Cuba)