Science in Developing Countries: U.S.-Kenya Cooperative Science Research on Electrocatalytic Reduction of Organohalides in Surfactant Media

发展中国家的科学：美国-肯尼亚关于表面活性剂介质中有机卤化物电催化还原的合作科学研究

• 批准号: 9002223
• 负责人: James Rusling
• 金额: $ 2万
• 依托单位: University of Connecticut
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-09-01 至 1995-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9002223&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Science; Developing; Countries; U.S.; Kenya

This project supports the participation of Dr. Geoffrey Kamau of the University of Nairobi in an ongoing, long-term project to develop new electrocatalytic approaches for destruction of halogenated organic pollutants in aqueous surfactant media. Specific aims for the two-year period of this collaborative component center around optimizing experimental design factors to attain significantly faster dehalogenation rates. The broad, long-term goals of the research project are to make possible new strategies for permanently effective detoxification of contaminated materials such as sediments, soils, and industrial oils, and to provide new insights into toxic and environmental interactions of organohalides by establishing fundamental kinetic and thermodynamic characteristics of their electron-transfer reactions. Environmental contamination with organohalide chemicals is a worldwide problem. Dehalogenation methods being developed should be directly applicable to other pollutants as well. The project is consistent with the criteria for the Science in Developing Countries (SDC) program in that it strengthens collaboration between U.S. scientists and engineers and their counterparts in developing countries, and increases the capacity of scientists and engineers in developing countries to address constraints to development.

该项目支持内罗毕大学的 Geoffrey Kamau 博士参与一个正在进行的长期项目，该项目旨在开发新的电催化方法来破坏水性表面活性剂介质中的卤代有机污染物。 该合作项目两年期的具体目标围绕优化实验设计因素，以实现显着更快的脱卤速率。 该研究项目的广泛、长期目标是为沉积物、土壤和工业油等污染物质的永久有效解毒提供新的策略，并通过建立基本动力学为有机卤化物的毒性和环境相互作用提供新的见解。及其电子转移反应的热力学特征。 有机卤化物化学品造成的环境污染是一个世界性问题。 正在开发的脱卤方法也应该直接适用于其他污染物。 该项目符合发展中国家科学（SDC）计划的标准，加强美国科学家和工程师与发展中国家同行之间的合作，并提高发展中国家科学家和工程师解决发展制约因素的能力。