MICROSCALE DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING TOOLBOX
FOR SCREENING AND PROCESS DEVELOPMENT
(MICROTOOLS)
| Project Information | Consortium | Team Members | Summary & Objectives | Reports | Results | Links & Contact |
Project director (TUIasi), Professor
Dan Caşcaval, Ph.D., from the „Gheorghe
Asachi” Technical University of Iasi, Faculty of Chemical Engineering and
Environmental Protection, is specialist in the field of biochemical engineering and biotechnology (bioseparations: separation of biosynthetic
compounds by liquid-liquid extraction with and without chemical reaction,
extraction and transport through liquid membranes – free and facilitated
pertraction, synergetic extraction and pertraction, direct extraction from
unfiltered broths, and bioreactors:
rheology of fermentation broths, efficiency and
distribution of mixing into the stirred bioreactors, oxygen and substrate mass
transfer, improvement of oxygen transfer by using oxygen-vectors, new
bioreactors with mobile/stirred beds of immobilized cells/enzymes for chemicals
production or wastewater treatment, internal diffusion of substrate inside the
biocatalysts).
He is
author and co-author of over 250 published papers (110 ISI ranked
publications), 13 books and chapters, and 9 patents. He was involved in over 40
national and international grants, 15 as coordinator.
Professor
Dan Caşcaval is Ph.D.-supervisor in the domain of Chemical Engineering (8
finalized Ph.D.-thesis, 6 Ph.D.-students and 5 postdocs included now in the
research programs).
Professor Dan Caşcaval was invited professor at The University of Manchester, Technology University of
Vienna, Karlsruhe University of Technology. He received many awards at
International Exhibitions of creativity and Innovations.
Project group members, positions and competences
|
Team member
name |
Position |
Competence |
 Lecturer Corina Cernătescu,
Ph.D. |
Postdoctoral researcher |
Analysis
of biosynthetic / natural compounds |
 Lecturer
Alexandra Cristina Blaga, Ph.D. |
Postdoctoral researcher |
Separation
of biosynthetic products by physical and reactive extraction |
 Lecturer Lenuţa
Kloetzer, Ph.D. |
Postdoctoral researcher |
Separation
of biosynthetic products by pertraction (separation by liquid membranes) |
 Alexandra Cārlescu |
Ph.D.-student |
Ph.D. thesis topic: direct separation of biosynthetic
product from unfiltered fermentation and enzymatic media |