Biomass for Biofuels (ePub)

Prof. Ewa Klimiuk works at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland, at the Faculty of Environmental Sciences, in the Department of Environmental Biotechnology. Her research initially focused on advancement of wastewater treatment, including industrial wastewater and leachate from municipal landfills. She later dealt with processing wastewater and waste to produce useful products by technologies such as biogas and composting. An important part of her research in this area focuses on the microbial production of biopolymers (polyhydroxyalkanoates) from wastewater and biodiesel by-products. Throughout her work she has collaborated with numerous industrial factories and operators. An important stage of her work was employment at the Lublin University of Technology in the Department of Environmental Engineering, Institute of Environmental Engineering, from 2007-2012. Ewa has published 101 original research works in foreign and national journals, 2 monographs, and three academic books.

Assoc. Prof. Artur Pawlowski, works at Lublin University of Technology as Head of Department of Sustainable Development. He works on issues related to environmental engineering, renewable sources of energy and multidimensional nature of sustainable development. He is the author of more than 150 publications, published in English, Polish and Chinese, including the book "Sustainable Development as a Civilizational Revolution. A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Challenges of the 21st Century" (CRC Press, 2011). Artur is member of the European Academy of Science and Arts, Salzburg, Austria, The Committee of Environmental Engineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, the International Academy of Ecological Safety and Nature Management, Moscow, Russia and the International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Philadelphia, United States. He is editor-in-chief of the scientific journal "Problemy Ekorozwoju/ Problems of Sustainable Development" and member of the editorial board of the Committee of Environmental Engineering monographs.

Tomasz Pokój, Ph.D. received his Master's degree in environmental protection in 2001 at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland, and defended his Ph.D. thesis "Accumulation of polyhydroxyalkanoates with mixed microbial cultures under oxygen and nitrogen limited conditions" at the same university in 2006. Since then, he has been working in the Department of Environmental Biotechnology, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn. His research and scientific interests focus on the synthesis of microbial biopolymers, the production of biogas, the modeling of anaerobic digestion in agricultural biogas plants, and technologies for biofuels. He is the author or co-author of 28 articles, 13 chapters in monographs and 1 book.