Biomass and Sustainable Development

The EQ-2 research group belongs to the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Vigo, and develops its work at the Faculty of Sciences and at the Building of the Campus del Agua of Ourense.

The group is formed by a multidisciplinary team with an extensive research background. The main research work focuses in the utilization of vegetal biomass wastes to obtain product of interest in the food, pharmaceutical, etc. industries, integrating chemical engineering, chemistry (natural products and food chemistry), materials science, enzymology and microbiology.