ADDRESS

LentiKat´s a.s.
Evropská 423/178
160 00 Prague 6
Czech Republic

Phone: +420 224 362 461
Fax: +420 224 362 463
E-mail: info@lentikats.eu
Web: www.lentikats.eu

Waste Water Treatment

Scientific Workplaces

In the framework of research and development, we cooperate with leading European scientific workplaces:

Faculty of Chemical Technology, Czech Technical University, Prague Department of fermentation chemistry and bioengineering Technická 5, 166 28 Prague 6	http://www.vscht.cz/
Technical University of Liberec Studentská 2, 461 17 Liberec	http://www.tul.cz/
Jan Evangelista Purkyně in Ústí nad Labem, Faculty of the Environment Králova výšina 7, 400 96 Ústí nad Labem	http://www.ujep.cz/
Institute of Biotechnology and Food Industry, Faculty of Food and Biochemical Technology STU Bratislava Radlinského 9, 812 37 Bratislava, Slovakia	http://www.stu.sk/
Federal Agricultural Research Centre (FAL), Institute of Technology and Biosystems Engineering Bundesallee 50, 38116 Braunschweig, Germany	http://www.tb.fal.de/
geniaLab^®, BioTechnologie-Produkte und Dienstleistungen GmbH Büchnerstraße 7, 38118 Braunschweig, Germany	http://www.genialab.com/

Research Projects

Lentikats biotechnology has been investigated by means of the following projects since 1999:

Project:	Denitrification: Verification of a possibility of using Lentikats biotechnology for the elimination of nitrogen pollution type N-NH₄⁺ and N-NO₃^- in the wastewater from lay-by's and fuel stations' wastewater treatment plants with high concentration of N-NH₄⁺ a N-NO₃^-
Partner: Duration: Project goal:	Institute of Chemical Technology Prague, Department of Water Technology 3/2008 – 9/2008 Testing of Lentikats biotechnology for the elimination of high concentration of nitrates from industrial wastewater in order to propose a technology for industrial application.
Project:	Decrease of concentration of nitrogen pollution N-NO₃^- from cold drinking water
Partner: Duration: Project goal:	Institute of Chemical Technology Prague, Department of Water Technology 1/2008 – 5/2008 Testing of Lentikats Biocatalyst for the elimination of high concentration of nitrates from industrial wastewater using suitable microorganisms with the goal to propose a technology for industrial application.
Project:	Introduction of Lentikats biotechnology for the elimination of nitrogen pollution type N-NH₄^- a N-NO₃^- from the wastewater of lay-by's and fuel stations' wastewater treatment plants.
Partner: Duration: Project goal:	Institute of Chemical Technology Prague, Department of Water Technology 10/2007 – 5/2008 Introduction of Lentikats biotechnology into the technology of wastewater treatment from lay-bys' and fuel stations' wastewater treatment plants, SBR reactor operational mode proposal, determination of Lentikats biocatalyst nitrification and denitrification activities, proposal for the optimal operational mode with regard to the elimination of COD.
Project:	Elimination of nitrogen pollution (N-NH₄⁺, N-NO₂^-, N-NO₃^-) and COD (BOD₅) from municipal wastewater without N-NO₃^- formation utilizing continuous Lentikats biotechnology.
Partner: Duration: Project goal:	UJEP, Faculty of the Environment 1/2008 – 6/2008 Proposal for optimal operating conditions of continuous operation of Lentikats biotechnology for the elimination of nitrogen pollution (N-NH₄⁺, N-NO₂^-, N-NO₃^-) and COD (BOD₅) from municipal wastewater by using Lentikats Biotechnology without the production of N-NO₃^-.

Research and implementation of the production of immobilizers of microbial cells (1999 - 2001)

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Development and implementation of the production of immobilizers of microbial cells
Increasing the export capacity of Czech industry
Ministry of Trade and Industry of the Czech Republic
BCS Engineering Brno a.s.
MEGA a.s.
01/1999 - 12/2001
Implementation of the production of immobilizers of microbial cells in hydrogel and their use during continualization of fermentation processes in the brewing industry, wine making, production of organic acids, during bioconversions in the pharmaceutical industry and when removing residual substances in drinking and surface water by means of immobilized microorganisms.

Encapsulated cells - their preparation and use

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Encapsulated cells - their preparation and use
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Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic
MEGA a.s.
06/2001 - 12/2003
The final goal of the project is the implementation of the production and use of encapsulated microbial cells during the production of primary and secondary metabolites of microorganisms, extracellular microbial enzymes, biologically active substances, important from the point of view of the food industry, pharmaceutical industry and cosmetics, by means of encapsulated plant cells and the use of microbial cultures and colonies during the treatment of drinking water and final purification of industrial and municipal waste water.

Application of immobilized cells and enzymes in biotechnological processes

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Application of immobilized cells and enzymes in biotechnological processes
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Department of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic
MEGA a.s.
06/2004 - 12/2006
MEGA a.s. In the framework of applied research, the final goal of the project is the implementation and semi-pilot verification of technologies with immobilized microbial producers and enzymes used in the production of alcohol, in food technologies and biotransformations used in the pharmaceutical industry for the production of semisynthetic antibiotics derived from penicillins and cephalosporines.