Objective
Taking in consideration the current state-of-the-art, the main objectives of the current project are the measurement of the critical flux for a variety of different materials, membranes and hydrodynamic conditions, which will lead to the understanding of the rejection of macromolecules by microfiltration membranes and how this rejection is influenced by the presence of larger particles. The staged objectives are:
1.- Determine fouling of small silica particles (5nm) in the presence of larger silica particles of size range around 1 micron These studies have the purpose of investigating the interactions from a physical viewpoint between the larger and the small particles; 2.- Determine the effect of surface interactions on rejection. With that aim the smaller silica particles will replaced by defined proteins and the previous experiments repeated; 3.- With the knowledge gathered during the two previous stages it will be evaluated the rejection of protein by a microfiltration membrane from a cell broth containing both micro- organisms (replacing the larger silica particles) and protein when operating at subcritical flux conditions.
The results expected are of major interest to industrial
processes that use (or can potentially use) membrane microfiltration I particle or cell harvesting (namely for wine and beer clarification, microalgae harvesting, drinking water filtration) or for c culture in membrane bioreactors (namely for biological purification of drinking water and wastewater treatment, or production of extracellular enzymes). Training content (objective, benefit and expected impact) This project will require both the use of engineering and biological knowledge and tools in a integrated way. This will be great benefit as a scientific training for the applicant. This project tics particularly well with the research work That the applicant has been developing over the last years on the use of microfiltration processes on biological reactors (namely I drinking water denitrification) and cell harvesting (microalgae harvesting). For this reason the understanding of the fundamentals of microfiltration membrane fouling is of major importance for the development of these research projects.
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Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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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 drinking water treatment processes
- engineering and technology environmental engineering water treatment processes wastewater treatment processes
- engineering and technology environmental biotechnology bioremediation bioreactors
- natural sciences biological sciences biochemistry biomolecules proteins enzymes
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United Kingdom
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