Development of remediation techniques for heavy metal species

水和土壤的质量是全球关注的主要问题，它们受到工业活动的极大影响，例如向环境中排放废水沃茨。这些行动对整个生态系统产生了广泛的影响。据预测，在不久的将来，世界范围内将严重缺乏清洁和饮用水，可用于耕作和/或畜牧的土地将继续减少。这些限制是由于生态系统中存在重金属污染物以及其他类型的污染物。将通过DELTA Remediation（一家加拿大公司）和不同的科学家团队之间的伙伴关系，共同开发适用于沃茨和土壤的新净化技术，以解决这些环境问题，确保获得饮用水源和可用的农田。在这个合作项目中，将开发成本效益高和生态友好的解决方案，以消除水和土壤系统中的重金属污染。在清理溢漏和泄漏以及大规模诊断水和土壤质量方面仍然存在挑战。DELTA补救和西蒙弗雷泽大学的拜伦盖茨博士的研究小组将共同努力，展示用于评估重金属污染和物种形成的简单技术，以及从水系统中去除这些物种（例如，开放水系统和/或土壤结合水），适用于环境样品和工业相关规模。该项目的目标包括交流专门知识和专门知识，以创造简单的解决方案，解决自然水和土壤系统中的重金属污染问题。

Water and soil quality are of primary global interest, which are greatly affected by industrial activities such asthe release of waste waters into the environment. These actions have a widespread impact throughout theecosystem. It is predicted that in the near future there will be a severe lack of clean and drinkable waterworldwide, as well as continued decrease of land that is accessible for cultivation and/or pasturable forlivestock. These limitations exist due to the presence of heavy metal pollutants in the ecosystem, among othertypes of pollutants. New purification techniques with applicability to waters and soils will be jointly developedthrough a partnership between a DELTA Remediation, a Canadian company, and diverse team of scientistswith the goal of addressing these environmental concerns and ensuring access to drinkable water sources andusable farm land.In this collaborative project, cost-effective and eco-friendly solutions will be developed for removing heavymetal contamination from water and soil systems. Challenges still exist when it comes to the clean-up of spillsand leaks, as well as for diagnosing water and soil quality on a large scale. DELTA Remediation and theresearch team of Dr. Byron Gates at Simon Fraser University will work together to demonstrate simpletechnologies for use in the assessment of heavy metal contamination and speciation, as well as the removal ofthese species from aqueous systems (e.g., open water systems and/or soil bound water), with applicability toenvironmental samples and at industrially relevant scales. The goals of this project include an exchange ofknow-how and expertise to create simple solutions to address the contamination of heavy metals in naturalwater and soil systems.