Enzymatic Disinfection of Domestic Wastewater

9981776 Cooper这一奖项旨在为初步研究提供支持，以评估酶氧化在微生物灭活方面的可能用途，这些微生物对目前在环境工程实践中使用的工艺灭活具有抗性。这项初步工作将旨在验证这样一个假设，即过氧化物酶和氧化剂与适当的非卤素底物相结合，可以作为生活废水的消毒过程。规划拨款阶段的目标将包括确定适当的基质、评估概念的可行性，以及与可能的替代方案进行比较。该提案是根据项目公告NSF 94-147，研究计划资助和少数民族科学家和工程师职业进进奖提交的。拟议的研究是探索性的。它解决了消毒概念的潜在用途，该概念将补充目前在环境工程实践中使用的过程，并可能为本研究者提供建议的基础，以获得足够的额外知识，用于消毒过程和系统的工程设计。＊＊＊

9981776 Cooper This is an award to provide support for preliminary research to evaluate the possible use of enzymatic oxidation for inactivation of microorganisms that are resistant to inactivation by us of processes in current use in environmental engineering practice. This preliminary work will be aimed at testing the hypothesis that a peroxidase enzyme and an oxidizing agent in combination with an appropriate non-halogenic substrate can function as a disinfection process for domestic wastewater. Objectives of the planning grant phase will include identification of appropriate substrates, evaluation of the feasibility of the concept and comparison with potential alternatives. The proposal leading to this award was submitted in accord with Program Announcement NSF 94-147, Research Planning Grants and Career Advancement Awards for Minority Scientists and Engineers. The proposed research is exploratory in nature. It addresses the potential use of a concept for disinfection that would complement processes now used in environmental engineering practice and is likely to provide this investigator with the basis for a proposal to obtain sufficient additional knowledge for use in engineering design of disinfection processes and systems. ***