| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/S07247/01 |
| Title: |
Bioremediation of acidic mine waters by sulphate reduction in novel, compost-based, field-scale bioreactors |
| Principal Investigator: |
Younger, Professor PL |
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| Department: |
Civil Engineering and Geosciences |
| Organisation: |
Newcastle University |
| Scheme: |
LINK |
| Starts: |
01 April 2003 |
Ends: |
31 May 2006 |
Value (£): |
258,662
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| Assess/Remediate Contamination |
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Acidic mine waters are a major problem in the UK and world-wide. Compost-based bioreactors used to treat such waters are assumed to improve water quality by means of microbially-catalysed reduction processes. While advances with this technology to date have been coarse scale and empirical, the work proposed here aims to provide scientific insight into the key biogeochemical processes which govern treatment performance. Working on three operating reactors, the insight will be grained by integrated studies of (i) Fe-S-C cycling in the compost substrates (using conventional and gel probe techniques) (ii) characterisation of the composition and dynamics of the responsible microbial communities (using advanced culturing and molecular methods), and (iii) engineering assessment and modelling reactor performance.
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http://www.ncl.ac.uk |