General Objective: Design and implement an integral system composed of a physical-chemical pre-treatment connected in series to a sulfate-reducing bioreactor on a pilot scale for the treatment of acid rock drainage from metal mining activities in Ecuador.
Specific objectives
- Sampling and characterizing acid rock drainages (ARDs) generated from metal mining activities in Ecuador.
- Develop and evaluate two different types of physical-chemical pre-treatments (pre-treatment I and II) depending on the removal of Fe (III) and other metals present in the real DARs.
- Install and operate the integral system composed of the physical-chemical pre-treatment that registers the highest removal efficiency that will be connected in series to a pilot-scale sulfate-reducing bioreactor for the remediation of real DARs.
- Monitor the performance, dynamics and changes in the microbial composition of the integrated physical-chemical-biological system on a pilot scale for the treatment of real DARs
- Disseminate and present the results of the investigation.
Participating Institutions:
USFQ, ESPE, UTA.
Participants:
Project Director Eng. Valeria Ochoa Herrera PhD.
- Valeria Ochoa Herrera
- Gabriel Trueba Piedrahita
- Aracely Zambrano Romero
- Natalia Carpenter Salvador
- Luis Cumbal Flores
- Dario Bolanos Guerron
- Erika Llumiquinga
- Rodny Penafiel Ayala
- Celia Margarita Mayacela Rojas
Awarded budget: $63066
Project status: Signing of agreements.
