Optimising decentralised low-cost wastewater infrastructure by managing the microbes

通过管理微生物来优化分散式低成本废水基础设施

• 批准号: EP/P029329/1
• 负责人: William Sloan
• 金额: $ 151.88万
• 依托单位: University of Glasgow
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2017 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FP029329%2F1
• 关键词: Optimising; decentralised; low; cost; wastewater

Here we argue that decentralised and point of use water infrastructure and technologies are fundamental in delivering health and economic sustainability in rapidly growing cities of the Global South. Further we advocate that research on decentralisation with developing world partners has the potential to catalyse radical change in unsustainable centralised western practices and thus will be mutually beneficial. There has been significant investment by charities and government agencies in developing novel wastewater treatment technologies and many are now close to market readiness. The Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand are piloting a suite of novel market-driven decentralised biological wastewater treatment technologies that were developed with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funding. The technologies work but their performance is variable. There is evidence that this is caused by variability in the microbial populations at the heart of the technologies, which are poorly understood. We will work with AIT to characterise and optimise the structure and function of the microbial treatment communities. The aim will be to mitigate the risk of failure by refining the AIT designs and offering rapid low-tech remediation strategies that can be deployed by customers should failures occur.

在这里，我们认为，分散和使用点的水基础设施和技术是在全球南部快速发展的城市提供健康和经济可持续性的基础。此外，我们主张，与发展中国家合作伙伴进行的权力下放研究有可能催化西方不可持续的集中做法发生根本性变化，因此将是互利的。慈善机构和政府机构在开发新型废水处理技术方面进行了大量投资，许多技术现已接近市场准备就绪。泰国的亚洲理工学院正在试验一套由比尔和梅林达盖茨基金会资助开发的新型市场驱动的分散式生物废水处理技术。这些技术是有效的，但它们的性能是可变的。有证据表明，这是由处于技术核心的微生物种群的变异性造成的，而人们对微生物种群的了解甚少。我们将与美国在台协会合作，优化微生物处理群落的结构和功能。其目的是通过改进AIT设计并提供快速的低技术补救策略来降低故障风险，以便客户在发生故障时部署。

项目成果

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• DOI: 10.3390/w11122660
• 发表时间: 2019-12-01
• 期刊: WATER
• 影响因子: 3.4
• 作者: Connelly, Stephanie;Pussayanavin, Tatchai;Koottatep, Thammarat
• 通讯作者: Koottatep, Thammarat

Cross-sectional study of antimicrobial resistance and ecology in gastrointestinal and oral microbial communities of urban Pakistani adults

• DOI: 10.1101/2022.11.05.515288
• 发表时间: 2022-11
• 期刊: bioRxiv
• 作者: Maria Batool;C. Keating;Sundus Javed;A. Nasir;M. Muddassar;U. Ijaz

Microbial electrosynthesis of acetate from CO2 in three-chamber cells with gas diffusion biocathode under moderate saline conditions

• DOI: 10.1016/j.ese.2023.100261
• 发表时间: 2023-04-07
• 期刊: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND ECOTECHNOLOGY
• 影响因子: 12.6
• 作者: Dessi, Paolo;Buenano-Vargas, Claribel;Farras, Pau
• 通讯作者: Farras, Pau

A prospective study on linking diarrheagenic E. coli with stunted childhood growth in relation to gut microbiome.

• DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-32491-x
• 发表时间: 2023-04-26
• 期刊: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
• 影响因子: 4.6
• 作者: Aziz, Israr;Noreen, Zobia;Ijaz, Umer Zeeshan;Gundogdu, Ozan;Hamid, Muhammad Haroon;Muhammad, Nazir;Khan, Abdullah;Bokhari, Habib
• 通讯作者: Bokhari, Habib

Autotrophic denitrification of nitrate rich wastewater in fluidized bed reactors using pyrite and elemental sulfur as electron donors

• DOI: 10.1016/j.eti.2022.102878
• 发表时间: 2022-08-29
• 期刊: ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION
• 影响因子: 7.1
• 作者: Carboni, Maria F.;Mills, Simon;Lens, Piet N. L.
• 通讯作者: Lens, Piet N. L.