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CV / Scientific Career

Research interests

Windmills and photovoltaics are renewable energies largely implemented which eventually lead to an excess of electricity, and its storage is essential, and that is where the power-to-gas (P2G) approach begins. Such excess electricity can be used to generate hydrogen throughout water electrolysis, and that hydrogen, if injected in biogas plants (another renewable energy generating bioprocess from organics) helps to upgrade the methane content of the raw biogas. The bioprocess is named biomethanation and is mediated by hydrogenotrophic methanogens.

In this project, I am investigating different reactor microbiomes as well as pure cultures to perform biomethanation. Operational parameters, pH tolerance, functional redundancy and competing pathways (homoacetogenesis) in the microbiome will be explored. Different process parameters, molecular methods (mcrA T-RFLP, 16s-rRNA Amplicon Sequencing), omics (metagenomics and metatranscriptomics), and bioinformatics, as well as stable isotope techniques, will be used to investigate the bioprocess.

Internships and bachelor/master theses

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Publications

Logroño, W., Kadier, A., Bakonyi, P., Nemestóthy, N., Bélafi-Bakó, K., Echeverria, M., Recalde, C., Rakhely, G., 2017. A novel miniaturized terrestrial microbial fuel cell reveals rapid electrochemical signals. Energy Procedia 142, 1482–1487. doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2017.12.596

Kadier, A., Kalil, M.S., Logroño, W., Sonawane, J.M., 2017. Hydrogen Production through Microbial Electrolysis Cell (MEC). Springer. [https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2493-6_954-1]

Logroño, W., Pérez, M., Urquizo, G., Kadier A., Echeverría, M., Recalde, C., Rákhely, G. Single chamber microbial fuel cell (SCMFC) with cathodic microalgal biofilm: A preliminary assessment of the generation of bioelectricity and biodegradation of real dye textile wastewater. Chemosphere 176, 378-388. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2017.02.099

Kadier A., Logroño W. Pudukudy M., Pankaj Kumar Rai; Mohd Sahaid Kalil; Azah Mohamed; Hassimi Abu Hasan; Aidil Abdul Hamid. None-platinum electrode catalysts and membranes for highly efficient and inexpensive H2 production in microbial electrolysis cells (MECs): A review. Iranian Journal of Catalysis 7, 2017, 89-102

Rózsenberszki, T., Koók, L., Bakonyi, P., Nemestóthy, N., Logroño, W., Pérez, M., Urquizo, G., Recalde, C., Kurdi, R., Sarkady, A., 2017. Municipal waste liquor treatment via bioelectrochemical and fermentation (H2 + CH4) processes: Assessment of various technological sequences. Chemosphere 171, 692–701. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2016.12.114

Kadier, A., Kalil, M.S., Abdeshahian, P., Chandrasekhar, K., Mohamed, A., Azman, N.F., Logroño W., Simayi, Y., Hamid, A.A. Recent advances and emerging challenges in microbial electrolysis cells (MECs) for microbial production of hydrogen and value-added chemicals, Renew. Sustain. Energy Rev., vol. 61, pp. 501–525, 2016. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2016.04.017]

Logroño, W., Guambo, A., Pérez, M., Kadier, A., Recalde, C. A terrestrial single chamber microbial fuel cell-based biosensor for biochemical oxygen demand of synthetic rice washed wastewater, Sensors (Switzerland), vol. 16, no. 1, 2016. DOI: 10.3390/s16010101

Kadier, A., Simayi, Y., Logroño, W., Kalil, M.S. The significance of key operational variables to the enhancement of hydrogen production in a single-chamber microbial electrolysis cell (MEC), IJHFC, 2015, vol. 2, pp. 85–97. [http://ijhfc.irost.ir/article_194_2.html]

Logroño, W., Ramírez, G., Recalde, C., Echeverría, M., Cunachi, A. Bioelectricity Generation from Vegetables and Fruits Wastes by Using Single Chamber Microbial Fuel Cells with High Andean Soils, Energy Procedia, 2015, vol. 75, pp. 2009–2014. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2015.07.259]

Recalde, C., Cisneros, C., Avila, C., Logroño, W., Recalde, M. Single Phase Natural Circulation Flow through Solar Evacuated Tubes Collectors on the Equatorial Zone, Energy Procedia, 2015, vol. 75, pp. 467–472. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2015.07.424]

Logroño, W., Echeverría, M., Recalde, C., Graziani, P. Bioconversión de Residuos Sólidos Orgánicos con Suelos de la región Amazónica y Alto Andina del Ecuador en Celdas de Combustible Microbiano de Cámara Simple," Inf. Tecnol., vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 61–68, 2015. [http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S071807642015000200008]

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