Innovative technologies for phosphorus recovery from sewage sludge containing metals

• Auteur / Autrice : Lobna Wael Fahmy Mohsen Amin
• Direction : Mathieu Sperandio, Anna Mikola
• Type : Projet de thèse
• Discipline(s) : Génie des Procédés et de l'Environnement
• Date : Inscription en doctorat le 14/06/2022
• Etablissement(s) : Université de Toulouse (2023-....) en cotutelle avec Université Aalto
• Ecole(s) doctorale(s) : École doctorale Mécanique, énergétique, génie civil et procédés (Toulouse)
• Partenaire(s) de recherche : Laboratoire : TBI - Toulouse Biotechnology Institute, Bio & Chemical Engineering
• Partenaire(s) de recherche : établissement délivrant conjointement le doctorat : Institut national des sciences appliquées (Toulouse ; 1961-....)

Mots clés

Mots clés libres

Boues d'épuration

Phosphore

Vivianite

Sewage

Phosphorus

Vivanite

Résumé

The project will be carried out as a 4-year doctoral study project in cotutelle leading to a Doctoral thesis from both partner universities. The research methods will be laboratory scale bioreactor experiments, full-scale experiments and modelling. The work will be realized half time in Toulouse University (INSA, Toulouse Biotechnology Institute), and half-time in Aalto University Department of Built Environment Water and Environmental Engineering Research group. The experimental work will be done in collaboration with the SIAAP Innovation research teams and HSY wastewater treatment plants. The project starts during Spring 2021 and will be partially supported by the Mocopée Research Programme. INSA-Toulouse is a french academic engineering school of Toulouse University, with 8 engineering specialisations, including computer sciences, civil engineering, mathematical engineering and biochemical engineering. The INSA-Toulouse community is made of 2,900 students, 450 permanent staff, with 450 MSc engineering graduates each year, and 55 PhDs. Courses are linked to the latest scientific advances, supported by the activity of leading-edge research laboratories and research institutes. Toulouse Biotechnology Institute (TBI) is a multidisciplinary research institute linked to INRAE, CNRS and INSA with 350 employees in multiple disciplines: microbiology, biocatalysis, bioprocesses, separation techniques, environmental assessment. The research group named Symbiose (Microbial Ecosystem and Bioprocesses for wastewater and waste management) is managed by Professor Mathieu SPERANDIO (78 International articles, 23 PhD supervised). The group has developed research on biological systems for industrial and municipal wastewater management for the last 40 years, and focused in the last decade on resource recovery from waste and wastewater, including nutrients recovery based on combined biological and physico-chemical technologies. Aalto-korkeakoulusäätiö sr, operating as Aalto University, is a Finnish multidisciplinary university in the fields of science and technology, economics, architecture, and art and design. The Aalto community consists of about 19000 students (of them, about 12% international) and more than 4600 employees, including ca. 400 professors. Aalto University produces ca. 2000 peer-reviewed journal articles and over 200 doctors yearly. The cornerstones of Aalto University research are four fundamental competence areas: ICT and digitalisation, materials and sustainable use of natural resources, global business dynamics, and arts and design. University comprises six schools and will participate in this project with two of them: the School of Engineering (Aalto-ENG) and the School of Arts, Design and Architecture (Aalto-ARTS). The School of Engineering's strengths include application oriented systems know-how and its tradition of experimental research, societal interaction and impact, and expertise in engineering. Aalto's contribution from Aalto-ENG is managed in the Department of Built Environment's Water and Environmental Engineering Group by Professor of Practice Anna Mikola. The group has focused on nutrient removal in municipal wastewater treatment since 1980s and more recently the research and development efforts are directed to nutrient recovery. The group operates the reactor hall in Water laboratory of Aalto University including e.g. also temperature-controlled reactor rooms.