Descrizione del progetto
Migliorare la sostenibilità delle navi sotto il profilo economico e ambientale
Le grandi navi per la navigazione mercantile dispongono di ampi spazi destinati ai macchinari dove sono utilizzate grandi quantità di combustibili, lubrificanti e altre sostanze chimiche oleose. Durante il funzionamento o le attività di manutenzione è possibile che alcuni di questi prodotti fuoriescano dalle tubazioni o dai macchinari. Questi materiali oleosi, uniti all’acqua salata e a qualsiasi altra sostanza risultante dal lavaggio della sala macchine (tra cui sostanze chimiche di lavaggio, ruggine, perdite dalle fognature, nerofumo, polveri e batteri), costituiscono l’acqua di sentina. È necessario mettere a punto metodi migliori per il trattamento di queste acque reflue prima dello scarico in mare. Il progetto ElectroSAnMBR, finanziato dall’UE, sta sviluppando un metodo biologico per il trattamento dell’acqua di sentina volto a tutelare l’ambiente e a ridurre i costi di trattamento.
Obiettivo
Bilge water is the main pollutant of shipboard wastewater; it can be briefly defined as saline, oily and greasy wastewater with a high COD (> 3-15 g COD L-1). The discharge of oil residue to marine environments is prohibited according to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) regulations (MARPOL 73/78) and the European directive 2000/59/EC. However, due to the fact that the major part of the oil in bilge water is emulsified, the physical methods may fail to satisfy the targeted treatment levels and contribute significantly to operational cost. Few studies are so far available for the use of biological methods for real bilge water treatment.
Electro-SAnMBR” project will develop an innovative technology consisting of an electrolysis cell (EC) inside a Submerged Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactor (SAnMBR) for the treatment of real bilge water. The electrochemical system will be consisted by a pair of electrodes (anode and cathode, without an ion exchange membrane) inside a SAnMBR. This e-SAnMBR system will be developed and optimized at a laboratory scale at Environmental Engineering Laboratory (EEL) Cyprus University of Technology (CUT), then it will be operated at pilot scale at Ecofuel Cyprus Ltd and the microbial profile in bioreactors will be examined at Environmental Bioprocessing laboratory (EBL) at CUT. The electrodes will be constructed at the Nano/Micro Mechanics of Materials Lab (NMML) at CUT
The research will be mainly implemented by Dr Gatidou and will involve novel aspects from many disciplines such as molecular microbiology, material science, environmental biotechnology, chemical engineering and environmental analysis and will also involve testing of bioreactors at industrial pilot scale level (Ecofuel Ltd). In addition, potential success of the project could lead to immediate application of the research findings by the company (Ecofuel Ltd) but also to future commercialization of the results
Campo scientifico
CORDIS classifica i progetti con EuroSciVoc, una tassonomia multilingue dei campi scientifici, attraverso un processo semi-automatico basato su tecniche NLP.
CORDIS classifica i progetti con EuroSciVoc, una tassonomia multilingue dei campi scientifici, attraverso un processo semi-automatico basato su tecniche NLP.
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwater treatment processeswastewater treatment processes
- engineering and technologyenvironmental biotechnologybioremediationbioreactors
- natural scienceschemical scienceselectrochemistryelectrolysis
- engineering and technologychemical engineering
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesmicrobiology
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Meccanismo di finanziamento
MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EFCoordinatore
3036 Lemesos
Cipro