Objective The main objective of the project is to develop a new, competitive process of wet air oxidation with low investment and operating costs and less corrosion and safety problems.The project will focus on the design of an heterogeneous catalyst, able to selectively oxidize specific, well-defined organic toxic compounds in aqueous industrial effluent streams, and having a high activity and lifetime at lower pressure, temperature and residence times.A heterogeneous catalytic wet air oxidation process will be designed; operating at temperatures of 200°C or below, pressures below 40 bars and with a residence time of much less than 1 hour (10-20 min), and able to completely and selectively oxidize organic pollutants, including those containing oxygen, nitrogen and phosphorous, in aqueous effluents with low to medium COD (3-50g/l).The project will include the following research tasks:- Catalyst preparation and characterization of fresh and tested catalyst, including synthesis of potentially interesting catalysts and optimization of design of the promising candidates.- Catalytic screening to assess the initial performance, to adjust the preparation methods and to determine the optimum scope of operating conditions.- Detailed catalytic screening for performance evaluation of the most promising catalyst candidates.- Study of the reaction mechanism and kinetic modelling for the most promising catalyst and for the chosen (mixture of) model compound(s).- Bench scale performance testing of the most promising catalysts, in order to test the catalyst activity and selectivity under prolonged operation.- Study of the technical feasibility in order to compare the new catalytic route of wet air oxidation vs the existing non-catalytic wet air oxidation technology. Fields of science natural scienceschemical scienceselectrochemistryelectrolysisnatural scienceschemical sciencescatalysis Programme(s) FP3-ENV 1C - Specific research and technological development programme (EEC) in the field of the environment, 1990-1994 Topic(s) 0202 - Technologies for protecting and rehabilitating the environment Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator Rhône-Poulenc Industrialisation SA EU contribution No data Address 25 Quai Paul Doumer 92408 Courbevoie France See on map Total cost No data Participants (4) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE France EU contribution No data Address Avenue du Recteur Pineau 40 86022 POITIERS See on map Total cost No data CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE France EU contribution No data Address Avenue Albert Einstein 2 69626 VILLEURBANNE See on map Total cost No data Eindhoven University of Technology Netherlands EU contribution No data Address 2,Den Dolech 2 5600 MB Eindhoven See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN Belgium EU contribution No data Address 2/10,Place Croix du Sud 2/10 1348 LOUVAIN-LA-NEUVE See on map Total cost No data
