Programme

 09:00

Registration 

10:00 - 10:30 

Conference Opening
Dr. Jörg Kretzschmar (DBFZ) / Prof. Dr. Sören Weinrich (DBFZ / Münster University of Applied Sciences)

MICROBIOLOGY SESSION | Moderation: Dr. Sabine Kleinsteuber

10:30 - 11:00 

Impact of phenyl acid on the anaerobic digestion process
Dr. Andreas Wagner (University of Innsbruck)

11:00 - 11:30 

Monitoring of Antibiotic Resistance Genes and Microbial Communities in mesophilic and thermophilic Anaerobic Digestion Systems
Zhe Cheng (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH – UFZ)

11:30 - 12:00

Degradation of hardly degradable carbohydrates in a two-stage anaerobic digestion plant mainly takes place in the second fermenter
Prof. Dr. Dirk Benndorf (Anhalt University of Applied Sciences)

12:00 - 12:30 

Coupling synthesis gas fermentation and chain elongation for the production of green chemicals
Dr. Heike Sträuber (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH – UFZ)

12:30 - 13:30

LUNCH

MONITORING & CONTROL SESSION | Moderation: Prof. Dr. Christian Wolf

13:30 - 14:00 

Flexible biogas production through phase separation:

1: Potential of dissolved hydrogen monitoring for improved process operation
Eike Janesch (TU Berlin)

2: A novel method for a highly sensitive dissolved hydrogen measurement
Dr. Jens Zosel (KSI Meinsberg)

14:00 - 14:30 

A simple method of assessing viscosity of biological slurries 
Dr. Alastair Ward (Aarhus University)

14:30 - 15:00 

Implementation of model estimation and discrete feedback control theories for flexible biogas production
Lingga Aksara Putra (Technical University of Munich)

15:00 - 15:30 

Extended and Unscented Kalman Filter Design for mass-based ADM1 Simplification
Simon Hellmann (DBFZ)

15:30 - 16:00 

PILOT-SCALE & INDUSTRY SESSION | Moderation: Dr. Fabian Jacobi

16:00 - 16:30 

Biogas upgrading in a pilot-scale trickle bed reactor
Carolina Feickert Fenske (Technical University of Munich)

16:30 - 17:00 

HyPerFerment II – Hydrogen from Biomass
Fabian Giebner (MicroPro GmbH)

Plants and Services for industrial water
Thomas H. Weißer (EnviroChemie GmbH)

Correlation of Total Plant Energy Usage with used total substrate Mixtute
Karlheinz Meier (VORN Bioenergy GmbH)

Biogas Batch Fermentation System
Dr.-Ing. Joachim Ritter (Dr.-Ing. Ritter Apparatebau GmbH & Co. KG)

Mobile Gas Leak Detection Solutions
Robert Gast (ABB)

Automated platforms for optimisation of biogasproduction
Mihaela Nistor (BPC Instruments AB)

Closing of the first conference day
Dr. Jörg Kretzschmar (DBFZ) / Prof. Dr. Sören Weinrich (DBFZ / Münster University of Applied Sciences)

19:00 - 23:00 

23 March 2023      

08:45 - 09:00 

Opening of the second conference day
Dr. Jörg Kretzschmar (DBFZ) / Prof. Dr. Sören Weinrich (DBFZ / Münster University of Applied Sciences)

MODELLING SESSION | Prof. Dr. Sören Weinrich

09:00 - 09:30 

Modelling of an acidogenic anaerobic fixed-bed reactor with a dynamic model descretized by Method of Lines
Dr. Pamela T. Couto (University of São Paulo Brasil and INRAE French National Institute for Agriculture Food and Environment)

09:30 - 10:00 

Optimization of an HRES Energy System with Biogas-Plant with flexible-demand driven biogas production
Dirk Kirchner (University of Leipzig)

10:00 - 10:30 

Smart process control of an anaerobic digester using Machine Learning algorithms
Hans Gelten (Saxion University of Applied Sciences)

10:30 - 11:00 

Model-based Prediction of Dynamic Methane Production at Laboratory-Scale with Machine Learning
Alberto Meola (DBFZ)

11:00 - 11:30 

11:30 - 12:30 

Microbial changes during OFMSW acid fermentation under different pH
Simón Gonzáles-Martinez (National University of Mexico)

Digesting organic waste with a new PFR reactor concept
Dr. Simon Hagemann (Saxion University of Applied Sciences)

Regeneration of gas seperation membranes
Lars Jaspers (Saxion University of Applied Sciences)

Disentangling the Influence Factors on Biogas Production from Pig Manure
Jurek Häner (Münster University of Applied Sciences)

tbc
Prof. Dr. Jakub Mazurkiewicz (Poznan University of Life Sciences)

Development of a packed foam bed bioreactor for biological methanation
Mohideen Abu Hanifa Sultan Mohideen (Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg)

Methane production from fermented cacao waste husks
Fabiany Morgado (National University of Mexico)

Effects of phenyl acids on the active AD community at different pH conditions
Eva Maria Prem (University of Innsbruck)

Biological Hydrogen Production for a Sustainable Energy Economy - Development and Application of Dark Fermentation for Hydrogen Production
Juliana Rolf (Münster University of Applied Sciences)

Modelling of anaerobic digestion process stability on the basis of chemical equilibria
Nguyen Van Than (University of Wismar)

Optimization pipeline tuning for ML-based anaerobic digestion predictive models
Klara Maria Wolf (DBFZ)

The glutamyl tail-length of the cofactor F420 in the methanogenic Archaea Methanosarcina thermophila and Methanoculleus thermophilus
Mathias Wunderer (University of Innsbruck)

A potential approach for the integration of biogas plants into cross-industrial systems
Jonathan Heil, Nestor Patient Tchamba Sefekme (Fraunhofer UMSICHT)

The methodology used to minimise biogas engine depsits and resulting failures
Izabela Konkol / Lesław Świerczek, Institute of Fluid Machinery - Polish Academy of Sciences

LUNCH BREAK

BATCH SESSION | Moderation: PhD Alastair Ward

Better BMP – Free resources for improving the quality of biochemical methane potential tests
PD Dr.-Ing. habil. Konrad Koch (Technical University of Munich)

14:00 - 14:30 

Towards improving the estimation of the kinetic parameter in BMP tests
Matthias Steindl (Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture) 

14:30 - 15:00 

Comparative Model-based Estimation of Biochemical Methane Potential and Degradation Kinetics in Batch and Continuous Operation at Two Scales
Manuel Winkler (DBFZ)

15:00 - 15:30 

Optimizing the energy recovery from agricultural-based digestates
Christiane Romio (Aarhus University)

15:30 - 16:00 

CLOSING
Dr. Jörg Kretzschmar / Prof. Dr. Sören Weinrich (DBFZ / Münster University of Applied Sciences)

16:00 - 17:00 

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