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15 - General Engineering
University of Edinburgh (joint submission with Heriot-Watt University)
Molecular microbial and chemical investigation of the bioremediation of two-phase olive-mill waste using laboratory-scale bioreactors
This Spanish Government funded work (£70K) developed molecular microbial tools allowing the optimization of the established bioremediation approach (DoI:10.1016/j.envpol.2005.08.066) to render olive mill processing waste non-hazardous. The work resulted in international academic and industrial collaborations (Prof Gonzalez-Lopez, Grenada, jgl@ugr.es; Scottish Water, Donald MacBrayne (email available)). It led to an invited paper (DoI:10.1007/s00253-008-1801-y) which was influential (Italy, DoI:10.1016/j.biortech.2013.03.155; Greece, DOI:10.1007/s00284-011-0049-4) and contributed to the development of the 4.5M€ NOVEDAR project (Spanish Government), PhD studentships (EPSRC, Scottish Water, Greek Government, £210k) and a second paper received the Water Engineering Award 2010, The Worshipful Company of Engineers (http://www.see.ed.ac.uk/news/Archive/news130.html) and attracted media attention (http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/09/algal-energy).
