Services and access

The Bio2E facility provides solutions, tools, and expertise to explore ways to recover value from your biomass through bioenergy and biomolecules, and/or to understand and overcome technological barriers. Tests and studies of pre-treatment, biological conversion processes, post-treatment, and agronomic studies are possible.

Our offer rely on technical resources divided into:

• Bioprocesses
• Digestates valorization
• Separation and extraction processes
• Physico-chemical processes and pretreatments
• Analytical resources and chemometrics
• Pure strain culture (BSL-2 Lab)
• Field laboratory equipments

Bio2E offer is flexible and can be tailored to the needs.

Types of access

• Collaborative research, partnership-based research
• Research services
• Prototype design
• Field studies
• Mobile equipments
• European projects
• Partner hosting

Main equipments

Bioprocesses:

• 100 mL to 30 L bioreactors (CSTR) for liquid anaerobic digestion
• Reactors adapted to high solids anaerobic digestion
• Plug-flow reactor
• AMPTS II (BMP measurement)
• BMP 2.0 (semi-continuous)
• Bioreactor-grinder
• Fermentors
• Composting reactors
• Reproduction of silage conditions under controlled conditions equipements, gases diffusion monitoring

Physico-chemical processes, pretreatments, separation and extraction processes:

• Rotary evaporator
• Grinders and millers
• Sonificator/Ultrasound process
• Microwave process
• 5 L High-temperature and pressure reactor
• Freeze-dryer
• Ultracentrifugation
• Filtration bench (stirred cells)
• Cross-flow filtration equipment
• Prototype for digestate phase-separation, dewatering, concentration or interest compounds extraction

Analytical resources and chemometrics:

• Biochemical oxygen demand
• TKN analyzer : NH4+ and organic N
• CHNS Elemental analyzer
• Gallery sequential analyzer
• Total Organic Carbon analyzer
• NIR Spectroscopy
• Mid-infrared spectroscopy
• UV-Vis Spectrophotometer
• 3D Fluorescence spectroscopy/Excitation emission matrix fluorescence
• ISBaMO® (Organic Matter Bio-accessibility Index)
• HPLC
• Gas chromatography Mass Spectrometry
• Jar Test

Pure strain culture (BSL-2 Lab):

The comprehension of the fate of pathogens potentially present in agro & agri-food residues and the impact of the treatments on their reduction is crucial, as well as their potential spread during the recycling of organic waste products. Our BSL-2 Lab offers the possibilities of handling microbial consortia with potential pathogen content. The isolation and cultivation of strict anaerobic strains and pure cultures for biotechnological purposes (biomolecules, bioH2, microalgal products, etc.) is also possible (anaerobic chamber).

Field laboratory equipments:

• Cross-flow filtration pilot (50 L)
• Rheometer
• Field Analyzer (anarobic digestion parameters)
• Instrumented scale and probes, coupled with weather station
• Spectroscopy pilot (NIR...)
• Mobile pilot coupling fermentation (bioH2) and anaerobic digestion