U.S.-Pakistan Joint Research on Advanced Renovation of SmallIndustry Wastes

描述：该项目为迈阿密大学的两名科学家在M.A.Beg博士的指导下参与巴基斯坦卡拉奇正在进行的巴基斯坦科学与工业研究理事会(PCSIR)的研究项目提供支持。该项目旨在找到从工业废水中去除污染物的最佳方法，使其能够重复利用。这项研究已经进行了三年，并处于从实验室研究转向中试工厂治疗的阶段。这项工作涉及小型制革厂和纺织厂废水。对于小型制革厂，处理包括高pH值、高固体分、生物曝气，而对于纺织厂，则基于超滤。预计将对现有的试点工厂进行改造，并从各工厂收集更多更具代表性的制革厂和纺织废料。范围：该项目汇集了两名美国环境科学专家和知名研究人员，以及一名活跃的巴基斯坦资深科学家，共同寻找可行的解决方案，以解决发展中国家城市地区最常见和最具破坏性的问题之一。这一结果可以在许多国家得到广泛应用，在这些国家，缺水和低技术工业污染的普遍存在都导致生活质量的严重下降。该项目完全符合发展中国家科学计划的指导方针。

Description: This project provides support for participation of two University of Miami scientists, in an on-going research project in Karachi, Pakistan, at the Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (PCSIR) under the direction of Dr. M. A. Beg. The project aims at finding optimum methods to remove pollutants from industrial waste water so that it can be reused. The research has been underway for three years, and at the stage of moving from laboratory studies to pilot plant treatment. The work deals with small tanneries as well as textile mill waste waters. For small tanneries the treatment covers high pH, high solids, biological aeration, and for textile mills it is based on ultrafiltration. It is anticipated that the existing pilot plant will be modified, and additional, more representative, types of tannery and textile wastes will be collected from various plants. Scope: This project brings two U.S. specialists and well known researchers in environmental sciences with an active senior Pakistani scientist to collaborate in finding viable solutions to one of the most common and damaging problems in urban areas of developing countries. The results can have wide application in many countries where both the scarcity of water and the pervasiveness of contamination from low-tech industries cause severe degradation of the quality of life. The project fits well within the guidelines of the Science in Developing Countries Program.