| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/N00012/01 |
| Title: |
PREDICTING AGRICULTURAL BENEFIT OF NOVEL BIOSOLIDS PRODUCTS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Smith, Professor SR |
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| Department: |
Civil & Environmental Engineering |
| Organisation: |
Imperial College London |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
30 September 2000 |
Ends: |
29 June 2004 |
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414,565
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| Water |
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New, advanced treatment technologies are being quickly introduced by the UK Water Industry to alloy concerns about the potential risk of transmitting disease from recycling urban wastewater biosolids on farmland, which is the single most important outliet for biosolids management in the UK. The new treatment technologies radically alter the physical, chemical and microbiological properties of buosolids. Howeverl nothing substantive is known about the use of these materials in crop production, which is fundamental to the basis of recycling on farmland. Additional wastewater treatment to remove phosphorous to avoid impacts of discharged effluents on surface water wil also change the phosphate status of biosolids and, again, the significance of this for agricultural application is uncertain. For the first time, this project provides a fundamental, comparative, integrated and multidisciplinary study of the effects of advanced and nutrient removal treatment processes on agronomic value and the potential environmental impacts associated with recycling advanced bosolids products on farmland. Microbiological aspects are also considered to assess the potential risk to health and of disease transmission from land application of advanced biosolids products. Advanced treatment may extend the opportunities for recyling biosolids in the horticulture sector and these will also be investigated.
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http://www.imperial.ac.uk |