Industrial wastewater treatment within the "design space" scientific framework

该研究计划将开发新的检测和处理技术，用于处理来自工业和商业设施（ICFs）的工业废水。该项目所描述的工作与工业的相关性非常高——《废水系统排放条例》（WSER）是一套新的国家污水质量标准，于2015年7月生效，并将逐步实施，第一个合规截止日期（针对“高风险”设施）定于2020年12月。该研究项目的合作伙伴Aevitas运营着一个专门的处理设施，从数百个不同的icf网络中接收工业废水。收到的WW的质量因原始来源而异，因此与Aevitas的合作为麦克马斯特团队提供了一个独特的机会，为各种工业WW类型开发新技术。预计研究成果将对整个工业废水处理领域产生重大影响，包括以下方面：-在检测，识别，去除工业废水中的杀菌剂-通过去除有机含量和有毒重金属实现废水质量的数量级改善-通过提高工艺效率和改善工艺稳定性来降低运营成本该研究计划主要受到制药行业最新趋势的启发，即“设计空间”概念。这种方法依赖于新技术的开发和集成，这些新技术的性能通过高通量研究得到优化。拟议的研究预计将全面改善污水的水质，从而使水生生态系统更加健康。

The research program will develop new detection and treatment technologies for the processing of industrial wastewater (WW) from industrial and commercial facilities (ICFs). The industrial relevance of the work described in the project is overwhelmingly high - the Wastewater Systems Effluent Regulations (WSER), a new set of national effluent quality standards, came into force in July 2015 and will be phased-in with the first compliance deadline (for 'high risk' facilities) set for December 2020. Aevitas, the partner for this research program, operates a specialized treatment facility that receives industrial WW from a network of hundreds of different ICFs. The quality of the received WW varies considerably depending on the original source and thus the partnership with Aevitas gives the McMaster team a unique opportunity to develop new technologies for a wide range of industrial WW types. The research outcomes are anticipated to have significant impact on the entire field of industrial WW treatment including the following:- Developing excellence in the detection, identification, and removal of biocides from industrial WW- Achieving an order of magnitude improvement in effluent quality via removal of organic content and toxic heavy metals- Decreasing operational costs via higher process efficiencies and improved process stabilityThe research program is principally inspired by recent trends in the pharmaceutical industry known as the 'design space' concept, an approach which relies on the development and integration of new technologies whose performance are optimized via high-throughput studies. The proposed research is expected to yield an overall improvement in WW effluent quality which would lead to healthier aquatic ecosystems.