| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L54707/01 |
| Title: |
WASTE TREATMENT PLANT DESIGN FOR THE SAFE DECOLOURISATION OF DYES AND RELATED COMPOUNDS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Wheatley, Professor AD |
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Civil and Building Engineering |
| Organisation: |
Loughborough University |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 October 1997 |
Ends: |
30 September 2000 |
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70,447
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The aim of the research is to develop optimum waste treatment designs for the complete biodegradation of recalcitrant sulphonated aromatic compounds. These types of substituted aromatic comounds are widely used and will serve as generic pollutants for wastewaters generated by the textile, paper and petrochemical industries. Conventional biological wastewater treatment is not effective at removing these compunds. Current treatments are physical in which case the compounds enter the solids waste environment or chemical oxidation which are thought to generate mutagenic residues. Decolourisation can be induced by anaerobic treatment but aerobic treatment is then required to further degrade the aeromatic residues. Little is known about the effectiveness of this treatment for the wide range of aromatic compounds in use or the genotoxicity of any residual COD generated during treatment. This proposed research will attempt to improve the understanding of the microbial physiology of the special groups of microbes neceassary for mineralisation and then apply this knowledge to optimise waste treatment design. The successful oiutcome will be a design guide detailing optimum retention times, co-metabolites, nutrients and redox sequencing to be disseminated by the trade organisations.
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http://www.lboro.ac.uk |