Carrying out projects aimed at optimizing the process, highlighting the following sublines of work:

• Pre-treatments oriented to the characteristics of each waste to improve its biodegradability and inoculum.
• Evaluation of codigestion, through characterization and analysis of synergistic mixtures.
• Development and evaluation of new digester designs.
• Systems monitoring and control tools and evaluation of operational conditions.
• Valorization of outflow streams: recovery of nutrients through the use of hydrophobic membranes, biological systems or wetlands. It also includes post-treatments (composting) and the determination of its capacity as a biofertilizer. Evaluation and conversion of VFAs: conversion into other value-added compounds.

Evaluation and development of processes aimed at obtaining gaseous streams with energy interest from biomass of different origin.

• Study of pretreatment of materials and use of additives.
• Direct gasification of residual biomass (organic sludge, agroforestry waste, etc).
• Gasification combined with “water gas shift – WGS” or with “sorption enhanced water gas shift – SEWGS” to obtain hydrogen. Study of catalysts and hybrid systems (adsorbent+catalyst) to carry out the reaction.
• Pyrolysis and use of byproducts (biochar.

Research focused on the application and uses of gases with energy potential: biogas, syngas, methane, hydrogen.

• Cleaning systems: new adsorbents for the capture of compounds such as H2S.
• Gas mixture purification systems:
• conversion through biological methanation by hydrogenotrophic archaea: power to gas concept.
• CO2 capture: adsorption/absorption with different materials, purification through cultivation and growth of microalgae.
• membrane and PSA technologies for other mixtures.
• Transformation into thermal and electrical energy: thermochemical valorization: combined combustion with microcogeneration (organic Rankine cycle – ORC).
• Conversion into other value-added compounds and carrier liquids: methanol and ammonia.