RESEARCH TOPICS
Biological treatment of industrial and domestic wastewaters.
- 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.
Application & Teaching
Research interest: microbial systems for biological depollution – large scale systems.
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)
Education and Degrees
Engineer ENSIGC and DEA
Thèse Université Paul SABATIER, Genie des Procédés et environnement
Titre : « Ultrafiltration de suspension de bentonite par des fibres creuses : application à la production d’eau potable»
January 1992-Octobre 1993 : Postdoctoral position – Performances of a potabilization plant based on UF membrane filtration. »
Research position in LGC
Habilitation à diriger des recherches, Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse
Title: « Les membranes, vecteur de transfert entre génie des Procédés et microbiologie »