Renovation of the Environmental Engineering BioProcessing Laboratory

几十年来，大量水和废水的处理一直依赖于在集中处理设施中使用廉价的生物反应器。更常见的是，污染土壤的处理是通过微生物处理技术来完成的，通过开发土壤中污染物的微生物降解条件，或通过注射化学品或微生物来刺激能够降解污染土壤和地下水含水层中目标污染物的微生物的原位降解。亚利桑那大学的几个小组参与了基础和应用研究，在这些研究中，新的基于微生物的技术和工艺被开发出来，以减少修复成本和清理所需的时间。目前参与这项研究的小组，代表了化学工程、环境工程和土壤、水和环境科学的学科，分散在几个地方。来自ARI项目和该大学的资金将用于翻新现有的实验室，将支持设施合并为一个单一的环境工程生物处理实验室（EEBL）。EEBL的目标空间位于20世纪70年代初建造的土木工程大楼的地下室。现有的条件使实验室不适合进行现代研究。装修将包括：安装实验室工作台，修改电气和管道系统，并改善暖通空调。新的内置设施将包括：通风柜，步入式冰箱，水软化系统，酸和碱存储柜，挥发性化学品存储柜。将环境相关的生物反应器工作集中到一个设施中，将为对微生物过程感兴趣的研究人员提供重要的资源。该项目将有助于促进对生物修复和其他基于微生物的过程感兴趣的教师和学生之间的协作互动，并最终在大学的环境微生物学和生物处理以及一般生物技术活动方面产生高质量的研究。

The treatment of large quantities of water and wastewater has relied for decades upon the use of inexpensive biological reactors in centralized treatment facilities. More frequently the treatment of contaminated soils is accomplished by microbial treatment technologies by developing conditions for microbial degradation of pollutants in soils, or by stimulating in-situ degradation of microbes capable of degrading target pollutants in contaminated soils, and ground water aquifers by injecting chemical or microorganisms. Several groups at the University of Arizona are involved in basics and applied research in which new microbial- based techniques and processes are developed to reduce remediation costs and the time required for cleanup. Currently groups participating in this research, representing the disciplines of Chemical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, and Soil, Water and Environmental Science, are dispersed among several locations. Funds from the ARI Program and the University will be used to renovate an existing laboratory to consolidate support facilities into a single Environmental Engineering BioProcessing Laboratory (EEBL). The targeted space for the EEBL is located in the basement of the Civil Engineering Building constructed in the early 1970's. Existing conditions make the laboratory unsuitable to conduct modern research. Renovations will consist of: installing lab benches, modifying electrical and plumbing systems, and improving the HVAC. New built-in facilities will include: a fume hood, a walk in refrigerator, a water softening system, acid and base storage cabinets, and a volatile chemical storage cabinet. Centralizing environmentally related bioreactor work into a single facility will provide an important resource for researchers interested in microbial processes. The project will be instrumental in promoting collaborative interactions among faculty and students interested in bioremediation and other microbial-based processes, and ultimately produce high quality research in environmental microbiology and bioprocessing and general biotechnology activities at the University.