F-labor

Contact: pecs@eik.bme.hu
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Focal points and main thrusts of research:

As we are a fermentation pilot plant laboratory, the focus of our interests and research are on applied microbiology and related applied sciences. Technological questions and developments are our main research and sometime we supplement this route with fundamental research to better understand interactions between factors influencing and determining technological aspects. Our goal is to extend our applied researches to have wide ranges of technology know how in as many bioprocesses as possible. According to these, we are rather contracted research dependent, than grant applications.

Introduction: Our Fermentation Pilot Plant researchgroup was founded by a pioneer professor László Nyeste, who was responsible together with his most famous disciple prof. Béla Sevella to start the Hungarian biochemical engineering education. Both professor had technology point of view and their joint success was to obtain the pilot fermenter with a total volume of 300L. They become first professor emeritus, but soon leaved almost together. Since that in 2014, the researchgroup was rejuvenated, under the leadership of a young associate professor, it consists of an emeritus associate professor, a post doc, 3 PhD student and a PhD applicant out of the two technicians.
Sample publications:

Németh, Áron ; Fehér, Csaba ; Jobbágy, Andrea ; Molnár, Mónika

Környezettechnológiai kutatások a BME Alkalmazott Biotechnológia és Élelmiszertudományi Tanszéken / Environmental technology research at BME Department of Applied Biotechnolgy and Food Sceince

MAGYAR KÉMIAI FOLYÓIRAT - KÉMIAI KÖZLEMÉNYEK (1997-) 124 : 3 pp. 135-141. , 7 p. (2018)

 

Aladár, Vidra ; András, József Tóth ; Áron, Németh

Lactic acid production from cane molasses

LIQUID WASTE RECOVERY 2 : 1 pp. 13-16. , 4 p. (2017)

 

Mika, László T ; Cséfalvay, Edit ; Németh, Áron

Catalytic Conversion of Carbohydrates to Initial Platform Chemicals: Chemistry and Sustainability

CHEMICAL REVIEWS 118 : 2 pp. 505-613. , 109 p. (2018)

 

Bernadett, Kiss ; Szilveszter, Gergely ; András, Salgó ; Áron, Németh

Investigation of Differences in the Cultivation of Nannochloropsis and Chlorella species by Fourier-transform Infrared Spectroscopy

PERIODICA POLYTECHNICA-CHEMICAL ENGINEERING 62 : 4 pp. 388-395. , 8 p. (2018)

 

Áron, Németh ; Szabina, Jánosi

Extraction of steviol glycosides from dried Stevia rebaudiana by pressurized hot water extraction

ACTA ALIMENTARIA: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOOD SCIENCE (2019)

 

Réka, Czinkóczky ; Áron, Németh

Investigations into Enzymatic Bioconversion to Form Rebaudioside A from Stevioside

PERIODICA POLYTECHNICA-CHEMICAL ENGINEERING : online first , 7 p. (2019)

 

Balázs, József Nagy ; Réka, Czinkóczky ; Áron, Németh

Screening for the Heterotrophic Cultivation of Chlorella sorokiniana Using an Indirect Impedance Microbiological Technique

PERIODICA POLYTECHNICA-CHEMICAL ENGINEERING : online first (2019)

Awards and achievements:

2005 – Best young lecturer at Annual meeting of Hungarian Microbiology Association

2010 – Our PhD student won 2nd price at BMe Research grant

2011 – We became The Scientific workshop of BMe

2019 – Foundation of Nyeste – Sevella diploma grant

2019 – Our PhD student won Sustainable Agriculture grant of K&H Bank

2019 – We won BME publication grant
Guest professors:
Group leader: Dr. Németh Áron