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.

这个国家实验生物学和工程设施的试点规模旨在填补战略和至关重要的研究基础设施的差距，阻止可持续地为所有人提供清洁水。我们目前的分散式污水处理模式需要被那些从废物中产生能量并回收营养素等资源的模式所取代。仅废水处理就占英国总电力的1.0%和美国电力的1.3%。这在资本和运营上都很昂贵，最终由客户支付。在下一个世纪，全球水务行业必须过渡到新的低碳低能耗技术，从废水中回收价值，同时将其清洁到高标准。对实现这一目标至关重要的严格的、重复的大规模实验是危险的、昂贵的，也是创新的重大障碍。该共享设施将允许多个国际和国家研究人员对科学严谨和工业可信的水工程创新进行大规模实验研究。它将为废水研究制定一个新的全球标准，并使英国成为废水处理创新的国际中心。大多数创新都死在了学术实验室的实验台上，没有有效地转化为工程现实。这是因为实验室规模的创新在行业从业者中缺乏可信度。大多数大规模的试点研究都是不可复制的，缺乏控制，因此缺乏实验室的严谨性和声望。从业者的怀疑是有根据的。即使是相对简单的物理化学反应器和单物种反应器的放大也是复杂和具有挑战性的。在开放的生物废水处理系统中，真实的更大规模的五次方（十亿）细菌的组成和动力学与我们在实验室规模看到的千亿细菌有很大的不同。该国家设施将由复制的可运输定制模块化废水处理厂组成，规模为1-12 m^3，其中包括传统技术（活性污泥和滴滤器）、新能源发电技术（微生物电化学燃料电池和厌氧反应器）以及可用于处理农村和城市受污染径流水的湿地/泻湖（例如可持续城市排水系统）。这些资源将有助于减少创新的障碍，使水务行业和下一代水务工程师和管理人员能够加速将研究中的创新转化为真实的世界，从而造福于经济、客户和我们所依赖的环境。

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