| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L97902/01 |
| Title: |
PLANT FIBRE FOR ION EXCHANGE |
| Principal Investigator: |
Murphy, Professor R |
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| Department: |
Biology |
| Organisation: |
Imperial College London |
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LINK |
| Starts: |
01 February 1998 |
Ends: |
31 January 2000 |
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14,170
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The research will optimise plant fibre based chelate systems for selected metal ions to demonstrate the viability of manufacturing these on a semi commercial scale and to prove their efficiency in real life situations. An important step in the project involves the determination of target ions to be adsorbed onto the modifies plant fibre matrix. Several selection criteria need to be considered during this determination, namely: the metal ion selected will be creating a significant environmental (and hence financial) cost, the removal of this ion will be difficult and expensive using conventional technologies, the ligand required to chelate to the chosen metal does not require complicated synthetic technique to apply to the plant fibre backbone. Once a specific ion (or ion combination) has been identified, a chelating system chosen, and a plant fibre support selected, a number of factors critical to the performance will need to be studied in order to optimise the system. These will include behaviour of the matrix under specific conditions, rate of uptake of ions, pH stability.
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