Moscow-Sana
Scientists from the Siberian Federal University of Russia have created a sorbent that can clean sewage water based on live bacteria and has a bio-oxidation property that enables it to digest components of petroleum products.
The Russian Novosti Agency quoted the assistant professor in the Engineering Systems Department of Buildings and Structures at the Siberian Federal University, Dr. Olga Dubrovskaya, as saying: “We decided, through physical and chemical analysis, to create a file for petroleum products in the wastewater of different institutions and then test the sorbent material capable of catching toxic substances. Which are not caught by the "traps" currently in use.
Dubrovskaya explained that the new method was tested in the washing water of thermal power equipment at the Krasnoyark Thermal Power Plant, and the experts were able to identify a group of basic pollutants and then expose them to the material that contains bacteria capable of oxidizing the petroleum materials, so that the last process of absorption and wastewater cleaning of toxic substances begins. .