The course aims to familiarize students with the bio-processes that aim both at environmental protection of ecosystems from pollution and the exploitation of liquid gases and solid wastes in the production of high value-added products, as well as the design and optimization of these biological systems.

The course content is about the description of ecosystems, organic stabilization of organic substrates, organic waste stabilization bioreactors, natural wastewater treatment ecosystems, biological nitrogen removal and microbial production of high value-added products.