Revolutionary new wastewater treatment technology from KAUST spinout Al Miyah successfully proven at Saudi NWC zawya.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from zawya.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The plant is the fruit of five years of research by KAUST professor, Pascal Saikaly and his team, and addresses the issues of access to clean water and sanitation as guided by Vision 2030.
A biological approach that creates metal nanoclusters with the electroactive bacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens could offer an economical and sustainable solution to high-performance catalyst synthesis for wide range of applications like water splitting.
Conventional biological wastewater treatment plants use microorganisms in the form of small, suspended aggregates referred to as bio-flocs to break down and remove pollutants such as ammonium and phosphate in the wastewater.