Objective
The contamination of industrial wastewater, surface water and ground water by oil is a particularly serious environmental problem. Oils are extremely difficult to break down by chemical or biological methods. Hydrocarbon oils tend to float on water and attach to solid surfaces. Due to these properties of oil when in contact with water, the contamination of oil in water can have disastrous environmental impacts on all forms of marine and aquatic life. Conventionalphysical techniques, based on the static separation of oil water, are ineffective. They do not remove all of the visible oil, and the levels of residual oil in the treated effluent are too high. It is the purpose of the proposed project to design and develop a novel bioreactor for biological treatment of hydrocarbon oil polluted waters. This novel bioreactor will be able to effect simultaneous separation, adsorption and biodegradation of hydrocarbon oils in wastewater, surface water and ground water. This project progresse as far as the design and build of a pilot plant to test this novel technology.
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. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology environmental engineering water treatment processes wastewater treatment processes
- engineering and technology environmental biotechnology bioremediation bioreactors
- natural sciences chemical sciences organic chemistry hydrocarbons
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Coordinator
WS9 8EX Aldridge
United Kingdom
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