Project Details
Grant Program
Faculty Development Competitive Research Grant Program (General) 2024-2026
Project Description
The main aim of the project is to address the UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 “Clean Water and Sanitation” challenge of protecting health, environment and natural resources from persistent and emerging pollutants and pathogens by developing environmental catalysts and adsorbents from natural kaolin via extrusion, providing an innovative solution and a new market in Kazakhstan – a significant kaolin producer – in the context of circular economy.
In Kazakhstan, huge amounts of wastewater are generated as a result of urbanization and population growth. This creates environmental risks as the wastewater contains chemical pollutants and pathogens [1,2]. The management of contaminated wastewater is a major issue for the country, since industrial, urban and commercial activities have led to elevated concentrations of a wide range of contaminants in surface- and ground-waters, such as organic contaminants, and heavy metals.
This project aims at contributing to a sustainable solution for a pressing environmental problem by developing innovative and low-cost catalysts and adsorbents for water remediation process through the utilization of locally occurring kaolin in Kazakhstan. Also, the methodologies and technologies developed will be transferable and applicable to other regions that face similar problems.
The main objectives of the project can be summarized as follows:
1. To prepare adsorbent and catalyst pellets from kaolin by extrusion;
2. To investigate the effects of the extrudate size, pH, calcination temperature and time as well as the effect of doping on the properties of the extrudates;
3. To investigate the adsorption capacity, the catalytic efficiency and the antimicrobial properties of the kaolin-based extrudates.
In Kazakhstan, huge amounts of wastewater are generated as a result of urbanization and population growth. This creates environmental risks as the wastewater contains chemical pollutants and pathogens [1,2]. The management of contaminated wastewater is a major issue for the country, since industrial, urban and commercial activities have led to elevated concentrations of a wide range of contaminants in surface- and ground-waters, such as organic contaminants, and heavy metals.
This project aims at contributing to a sustainable solution for a pressing environmental problem by developing innovative and low-cost catalysts and adsorbents for water remediation process through the utilization of locally occurring kaolin in Kazakhstan. Also, the methodologies and technologies developed will be transferable and applicable to other regions that face similar problems.
The main objectives of the project can be summarized as follows:
1. To prepare adsorbent and catalyst pellets from kaolin by extrusion;
2. To investigate the effects of the extrudate size, pH, calcination temperature and time as well as the effect of doping on the properties of the extrudates;
3. To investigate the adsorption capacity, the catalytic efficiency and the antimicrobial properties of the kaolin-based extrudates.
| Status | Active |
|---|---|
| Effective start/end date | 1/1/24 → 12/31/26 |
Keywords
- kaolin
- wastewater treatment
- catalysis
- SDG 6
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