Experimental Biology and Engineering at the Pilot Scale - Strategic Equipment

中试规模的实验生物学和工程 - 战略设备

• 批准号: EP/P001564/1
• 负责人: Russell Davenport
• 金额: $ 152.48万
• 依托单位: Newcastle University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2016 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FP001564%2F1
• 关键词: Experimental; Biology; Engineering; Pilot; Scale

This National Facility for Experimental Biology and Engineering at the Pilot Scale aims to fulfill a strategically and critically important research infrastructure gap that prevents the sustainable provision of clean water for all. Our current decentralized wastewater treatment model needs replacing with those that generate energy from waste and recover resources such as nutrients. Wastewater treatment alone accounts for up to 1.0% of total UK and 1.3% of US electricity. It is both capitally and operationally expensive, for which the customer ultimately pays. In the next century the global water industry must transition to novel low carbon low energy technologies that will recover value from wastewater while cleaning it to a high standard. The rigorous, replicated large-scale experimentation vital to meeting this goal is risky, costly and a significant barrier to innovation. This shared Facility will allow multiple international and national researchers to conduct large-scale experimental investigation of water engineering innovations that are scientifically rigorous and industrially credible. It will set a new global standard for wastewater research and place the UK as an international centre for innovation in wastewater treatment. Most innovations die on the academic lab benches and are not effectively translated into engineering reality. This is because lab-scale innovations lack credibility with Industry practitioners. Most large-scale pilot studies are un-replicated, lack control and thus the rigor and prestige of the lab. The skepticism of practitioners is well founded. The scale-up of even relatively simple physical-chemical and single species reactors is complex and challenging. In open biological wastewater treatment systems, the composition and dynamics of the quintillion (billion billion billion) bacteria at the real larger scale differ profoundly from the thousand billion bacteria we see at the bench scale. This National Facility will consist of replicated transportable custom-built modular wastewater treatment plants at 1-12 m^3 scale that includes conventional (activated sludge and trickling filters), new energy generating technologies (microbial electrochemical fuel cells and anaerobic reactors), and wetlands/lagoons that can be used to treat polluted run-off water in rural and city places (e.g. Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems). These resources will help to reduce barriers to innovation by allowing the Water Industry and the next generation of water engineers and managers to accelerate the translation of innovations from research into the real world for the benefit of the economy, the customer and the environment we rely upon.

该试验量表的国家实验生物学和工程设施旨在实现战略性和至关重要的研究基础设施差距，以防止所有人可持续提供清洁水。我们目前的分散废水处理模型需要替代从废物中产生能量并回收养分等资源的废水处理模型。仅废水处理量占英国总数的1.0％，占美国电力的1.3％。它既有特权和运营昂贵，客户最终都会支付。在下个世纪，全球水行业必须过渡到新型的低碳低能技术，这些技术将在清除水中以高水平的方式从废水中回收价值。对实现这一目标至关重要的严格，复制的大规模实验是风险，昂贵且具有重大创新障碍。该共享设施将允许多个国际和国家研究人员对水工程创新进行大规模的实验研究，这些创新在科学上是严格且工业可信的。它将为废水研究树立新的全球标准，并将英国作为废水处理的国际创新中心。大多数创新都死于学术实验室的长椅上，并未有效地转化为工程现实。这是因为实验室规模的创新缺乏行业从业人员的信誉。大多数大型试点研究都是未复制的，缺乏控制，因此是实验室的严格和声望。从业者的怀疑是充分的。甚至相对简单的物理化学和单个物种反应堆的扩展是复杂且具有挑战性的。在开放的生物废水处理系统中，实际较大范围的Quintillion（十亿亿）细菌的组成和动力学与我们在基准尺度上看到的数千亿细菌截然不同。该国家设施将由1-12 m^3比例的可复制的可运输定制模块化处理厂组成，其中包括常规（活性污泥和滴水过滤器），新的能源产生技术（微生物电化学燃料电池和厌氧反应堆）以及可用于处理污染的跑步水和城市的湿地/lagoons/lagoons（尿道/lagoons）。这些资源将通过允许水工业和下一代水工程师和经理来减少创新的障碍，从而加快从研究到现实世界的创新转化，以使经济，客户和我们所依赖的环境受益。

项目成果

Assessing the potential application of bacteria-based self-healing cementitious materials for enhancing durability of wastewater treatment infrastructure

• DOI: 10.1016/j.cemconcomp.2023.105259
• 发表时间: 2023-08
• 期刊: Cement and Concrete Composites
• 影响因子: 10.5
• 作者: M. Bagga;Ismael Justo-Reinoso;Charlotte Hamley-Bennett;George O. T. Merces;Saimir Luli;A. Akono;E. Masoero;K. Paine;S. Gebhard;I. D. Ofiţeru

Engineering biology for the circular economy in water resources

水资源循环经济的工程生物学

• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: Water Industry Journal
• 作者: Davenport, RJ