Toxicity reduction and decolourisation of organic containing industrial effluent streams by selective electrochemical treatment

Project Information

Grant agreement ID: BRST960220

Project closed

Start date 15 July 1996

End date 31 August 1997

Funded under

• Specific research and technological development programme in the field of industrial and materials technologies, 1994-1998

Total cost € 0,00

EU contribution No data

Coordinated by

Atraverda Ltd.
United Kingdom

Objective

The research project will be concerned with the development of an innovative electrochemical treatment device designed to selectively degrade toxic components from and hence detoxify an organic containing effluent stream prior to conventional bio-treatment processes.The use of the device to decolourise effluent without the addition of chemicals will also be investigated. The use of novel dimensionally stable ceramic electrode materials will be evaluated in 3-D packed bed reactors to treat aqueous waste arising from pulp and paper manufacture, dye- stuffs, speciality chemical and agrochemical production. The overall aim is to design and build a portable pilot plant/demonstration unit that can be transported to chemical plants to test effectiveness of the device and its compatibility with and supplementing of the existing bio-treatment plant under actual operating conditions

Fields of science

• natural sciences › chemical sciences › electrochemistry

Programme(s)

• FP4-BRITE/EURAM 3 - Specific research and technological development programme in the field of industrial and materials technologies, 1994-1998

Topic(s)

• 0201 - Materials engineering

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

EAW - Exploratory awards

Coordinator

Atraverda Ltd.

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Rotherham Road ; S31 9FH Sheffield ; United Kingdom
• Total cost: No data