Innovation Anthology #636:
Dr. Mohamed Gamal El-Din currently holds the NSERC Senior Industrial Research Chair in Oil Sands Tailings Water Treatment at the University of Alberta.
He supervises many PhD and graduate students who working on innovative ways to detoxify tailings water.
DR MOHAMED GAMAL EL-DIN: We have actually a large number of projects. Some of them are focused on using physical approaches for treating the oil sands process water. Some are using chemical approaches such as applying things like ozone treatment. Some other projects use the approach of absorbing the contaminants from that process water on some absorbents. We have projects at the biological treatment approaches, so relying on the biology and relying on the microbiology and systems involving microorganisms. We are also having projects in the area of designing treatment reactors and modeling them. We have projects in the area of characterizing that very complex matrix, because if you know more about what’s in it, then you can actually predict the performance, and design a good treatment system.
Dr. Gamal El-Din says some of these projects are already showing successful results.
Thanks today to Syncrude
You can hear the full interview with Dr. Gamal El-Din at InnovationAnthology.com
I’M CHERYL CROUCHER
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Program Date: 2014-09-11