The project is focused on two main environmental problems:
1. pulp and paper industry discharges, containing refractory compounds;
2. pollution of soil and groundwater with the residues of rocket propellants.
The research objective is to establish optimum conditions for oxidative strategies in eliminating refractory compounds from water by combination of chemical treatment methods, including ozone-associated advanced oxidation technologies, heterogeneous Fenton reagent, catalytic wet air oxidation and photocatalytic oxidation, with aerobic biologic oxidation. The objectives in working with gas-phase photocatalysis include the study of reaction routes and kinetics for mercaptans and hydrazines.
Sites of the research: Lappeenranta University of Technology in co-operation with Boreskov Institute of Catalysis, Novosibirsk.
Associated parties: Helsinki Technical University, University of Oulu, Tallinn Technical University, University of Colorado at Boulder, Clausthal Technical University and University of Barcelona.
Financing: Academy of Finland, Russia in Flux –program.
Research leader: Prof. Juha Kallas, +358 5 621 2132, firstname.lastname@lut.fi