Development of biosorption filters for industrial wastewater detoxification and heavy metal recovery

Project Information

Grant agreement ID: BRST985510

Project closed

Start date 1 February 1999

End date 31 January 2001

Funded under

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

Total cost No data

EU contribution No data

Coordinated by

Electrometal SA
Greece

Objective

The development of a novel technology for industrial wastewater detoxification and heavy metal recovery is proposed. Industrial sectors that will benefit from this technology include electroplating and surface finishing operations, tanneries, photographic laboratories, etc. The technology will rely on the ability of immobilized algal cell walls for heavy metal adsorption due to the presence of chelating groups in algal cellulose (cell biopolymers, including carboxyl, imidazole, sulfhydryl, etc.). Seaweed will be collected from eutrophic waters (Venice lagoon and other water bodies) and processed to maximise their cation exchange capacity. The processed biomass will be packed into column filters and their performance will be optimised by adjusting the filtration conditions (pH, flow rate, bulking agent, etc.) and developing an automated monitoring system. Performance parameters will be estimated under real conditions of operation in the facilities of four core group proposers. Column regeneration and metal recovery procedures will also be established. The partners will take full advantage of their access to the market through local and international trade associations to promote the product using all available means and taking advantage of the product's environmentally friendly character.

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.

• engineering and technology › environmental engineering › water treatment processes › wastewater treatment processes
• agricultural sciences › agricultural biotechnology › biomass
• social sciences › economics and business › business and management › commerce

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Programme(s)

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

Topic(s)

• 0204 - Technologies for recovering products at the end of their lifecycle

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CRS - Cooperative research contracts

Coordinator

Electrometal SA

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Leof. NATO ; 19300 Aspropyrgos ; Greece
• Total cost: No data

Participants (5)

Antonis Bizanios SA

Greece

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Xanthou 3 ; 10673 Tavros
• Total cost: No data

GEOPOLIMERI SRL

Italy

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Via Cartiera 21 ; 36028 ROSSANO VENETO
• Total cost: No data

Hellenic Environmental Technologies Association

Greece

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 50,Kephalinias 50 ; 16342 Athens
• Total cost: No data

Livingston Precision Engineering Ltd.

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Firth Road 28 ; EH54 5PE Livingston
• Total cost: No data

W.M.S. Greaves & Son (E.P.) Ltd

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Lock Street 2 ; S6 3BI Sheffield
• Total cost: No data