2013 Participants
Paulius Rasiukas
Wastewater from electroplating plants and some manufacturing industry, as well as mining, contains various metal ions, and even precious metals. Heavy metal toxicity can affect the whole environmental circle throughout the food chain, and ultimately on human health. The need to remove and recover metal ions from wastewater has both financial and environmental benefits. By recover and reuse metal from wastewater, it is not only cost saving and but also a concept shift in the recovery of resources from waste. Current metal removal strategies are mainly based on physic-chemical techniques, which are high cost, high energy demanding and low metal recovery efficiency.
Funding Source: Newcastle University