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Overview

Nicolas Bernet is affiliated with INRAE (Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement) in France. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Environmental Science, encompassing various specialized subfields and topics related to sustainable energy and environmental technologies.

The main fields of study addressed in their work include:

  • Engineering
  • Environmental Science

The subfields of study where Nicolas Bernet has contributed include:

  • Building and Construction
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Pollution
  • Molecular Biology

Key research topics in their publications focus on:

  • Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production
  • Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation
  • Biofuel production and bioconversion
  • Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
  • Electrochemical sensors and biosensors
  • Microbial metabolism and enzyme function
  • Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction

Nicolas Bernet has published extensively in several scientific venues. The most frequent outlets for their work include:

  • Bioresource Technology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Energy Conversion and Management

The scientist has collaborated often with the following researchers:

  • Éric Trably (27 publications)
  • Renaud Escudié (17 publications)
  • Gaëlle Santa-Catalina (11 publications)
  • Hélène Carrère (10 publications)
  • Jean-Philippe Steyer (8 publications)

Some recently published papers by Nicolas Bernet include:

  • A vision of European biogas sector development towards 2030: Trends and challenges, 2020, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Biomethanation processes: new insights on the effect of a high H2 partial pressure on microbial communities, 2020, Biotechnology for Biofuels
  • Circular Economy Applied to Organic Residues and Wastewater: Research Challenges, 2021, Waste and Biomass Valorization
  • Role of indigenous bacteria in dark fermentation of organic substrates, 2020, Bioresource Technology
  • Mixotrophic growth of microalgae on volatile fatty acids is determined by their undissociated form, 2020, Algal Research

Best Publications

  • Anaerobic digestion of microalgae as a necessary step to make microalgal biodiesel sustainable.

    Bruno Sialve;Nicolas Bernet;Olivier Bernard

  • Experimental study on a coupled process of production and anaerobic digestion of Chlorella vulgaris

    Monique Ras;Laurent Lardon;Sialve Bruno;Nicolas Bernet

  • Nitrification at low oxygen concentration in biofilm reactor

    Nicolas Bernet;Peng Dangcong;Jean-Philippe Delgenès;René Moletta

  • Pretreatment of food waste for methane and hydrogen recovery: A review.

    Obulisamy Parthiba Karthikeyan;Eric Trably;Sanjeet Mehariya;Nicolas Bernet

  • Electro-Fermentation: How To Drive Fermentation Using Electrochemical Systems.

    Roman Moscoviz;Javiera Toledo-Alarcón;Eric Trably;Nicolas Bernet

  • COMBINED ANAEROBIC-AEROBIC SBR FOR THE TREATMENT OF PIGGERY WASTEWATER

    Nicolas Bernet;N. Delgenes;Joseph C. Akunna;J. P. Delgenes

  • Towards new indicators for the prediction of solid waste anaerobic digestion properties.

    P. Buffiere;D. Loisel;N. Bernet;J. P. Delgenes

  • Aerobic granular sludge—a case report

    Peng Dangcong;Peng Dangcong;Nicolas Bernet;Jean-Philippe Delgenes;Rene Moletta

  • Impact of microalgae characteristics on their conversion to biofuel. Part II: Focus on biomethane production.

    Cristina González-Fernández;Bruno Sialve;Nicolas Bernet;Jean-Philippe Steyer

  • Role of shear stress on composition, diversity and dynamics of biofilm bacterial communities.

    Alice Rochex;Jean-Jacques Godon;Nicolas Bernet;Renaud Escudié

  • Thermal pretreatment to improve methane production of Scenedesmus biomass

    C. González-Fernández;B. Sialve;N. Bernet;J.P. Steyer

  • Comparison of ultrasound and thermal pretreatment of Scenedesmus biomass on methane production

    C. González-Fernández;B. Sialve;N. Bernet;J.P. Steyer

  • Challenges and innovations on biological treatment of livestock effluents.

    Nicolas Bernet;Fabrice Béline

  • Addition of granular activated carbon and trace elements to favor volatile fatty acid consumption during anaerobic digestion of food waste

    Gabriel Capson-Tojo;Roman Moscoviz;Diane Ruiz;Gaëlle Santa-Catalina

  • Methane yield as a monitoring parameter for the start-up of anaerobic fixed film reactors.

    Sébastien Michaud;Nicolas Bernet;Pierre Buffière;Michel Roustan

  • Biodegradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: Using microbial bioelectrochemical systems to overcome an impasse

    Maria Kronenberg;Eric Trably;Nicolas Bernet;Dominique Patureau

  • The effect of incubation conditions on the laboratory measurement of the methane producing capacity of livestock wastes

    F. Vedrenne;F. Béline;P. Dabert;N. Bernet

  • Biological pretreatments of biomass for improving biogas production: an overview from lab scale to full-scale

    Ulysse Brémond;Ulysse Brémond;Raphaëlle de Buyer;Jean-Philippe Steyer;Nicolas Bernet

  • Dynamic effect of total solid content, low substrate/inoculum ratio and particle size on solid-state anaerobic digestion.

    J.-C. Motte;R. Escudié;N. Bernet;J.-P. Delgenes

  • Effect of dissolved oxygen and carbon-nitrogen loads on denitrification by an aerobic consortium.

    D Patureau;N Bernet;J P Delgenès;R Moletta

  • Control of start-up and operation of anaerobic biofilm reactors: An overview of 15 years of research

    Renaud Escudié;Romain Cresson;Jean-Philippe Delgenès;Nicolas Bernet

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric Trably
Eric Trably INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Jean-Philippe Steyer
Jean-Philippe Steyer INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Renaud Escudié
Renaud Escudié University of Montpellier
Jean-Philippe Delgenès
Jean-Philippe Delgenès INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Hélène Carrère
Hélène Carrère University of Montpellier
Dominique Patureau
Dominique Patureau University of Montpellier
Fabrice Béline
Fabrice Béline European University of Brittany
Elías Razo-Flores
Elías Razo-Flores Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica
Eveline Volcke
Eveline Volcke Ghent University
Etienne Paul
Etienne Paul Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse

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