Development of cost-effective methods for minimizing risk from heavy metal pollution in industrial cities: a case study of mercury pollution in pavlodar

Objective

The work will investigate environmental management options for remediation/mitigation of pollution by soluble heavy metals in industrial cities. It will develop a methodology for identifying cost-effective pollution management options that take into account both economic realities and the best estimates frisk. It will pay particular attention to establishing cost effective ways of understanding the extent of groundwater pollution and in cost effectively managing risk. In the first instance, the methodology will be developed and tested in abase study at Payload, a heavily industrialised city where there has been catastrophic release of mercury in the industrial zone. The research will make practical, economically feasible recommendations for resolving the Payload crisis and will produce a manual for investigating similar industrial sources of pollution in arid continental climates.

Fields of science

• natural sciences › chemical sciences › inorganic chemistry › transition metals
• natural sciences › earth and related environmental sciences › environmental sciences › pollution

Programme(s)

• FP5-INCO 2 - Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Confirming the international role of Community research,1998-2002"

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Call for proposal

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Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON

Address

Highfield
SO17 1BJ Southampton
United Kingdom

Participants (7)

AL FARABI KAZAKH STATE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Kazakhstan

Address

Karasai Batyr St. 95
480012 Almaty

ALMATY INSTITUTE OF POWER ENGINEERING AND TELECOMMUNICATION

Kazakhstan

Address

Baytursynov Street 126
489013 Almaty

JOINT ENTERPRISE EVROCHIM

Ukraine

Address

Sosura Street 6
253090 Kiev

KAZAKH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Kazakhstan

Address

93,chokan Valikhanov Street 94
480100 Almaty

SIBERIAN INTELLECTUAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL UNIVERSITY

Russia

Address

Stepnaya Street 270
644046 Omsk

STICHTING GEODELFT

Netherlands

Address

Stieltjesweg 2
2600 AB Delft

TOO INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE

Kazakhstan

Address

Abai Prospect 191
480046 Almaty