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Enhancement of the biological treatment of contaminated waters by increasing microbial diversity ('BIOENHAN')

Reference	BBS/B/13772
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Tom Curtis
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors	Professor Ian Head
Institution	Newcastle University
Department	Civil Engineering and Geosciences
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	270,796
Status	Completed
Type	Research Grant
Start date	01/11/2003
End date	30/06/2007
Duration	44 months

Abstract

We hypothesise that enhancing the microbial diversity in a bioremediation system will enhance the stability and capacity for biodegradation in that system. Exploiting recent theoretical developments in the estimation of microbial diversity we seek to measure and manipulate the naturally occurring biodiversity in bioreactors treating waters contaminated with challenging pollutants. To this end we propose: adapting the published theory (to permit the use of variable data), conducting baseline studies on diversity and factors controlling diversity, heuristically manipulating diversity in bench scale reactors. The lessons learnt at the bench scale will be evaluated at the pilot scale both for reproducibility and impact on function.

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Committee	Closed Committee - Engineering & Biological Systems (EBS)
Research Topics	X – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	LINK: Bioremediation (BRM) [2002-2004]
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

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