Team
This multi-disciplinary project has partners at the universities of Newcastle, Manchester, South Wales and Surrey.
Our project
We use microbes to obtain energy from organic matter in wastewater using bioelectrochemical systems. That energy is used to drive processes to recover useful metals from industrial wastewater and to synthesise useful compounds from carbon dioxide. We use life cycle sustainability assessments to inform our design decisions.
Our team consists of scientists from the universities of Newcastle, Manchester, Surrey and South Wales. As part of the METEORR project, we have formal collaboration with researchers at Glasgow, Penn State, Ghent and Harbin. We work closely with industrial partners who will benefit from our research findings.
Funding
The METEORR project is funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).
The project is part of NERC's Resource Recovery from Waste programme which aims to deliver the science needed to accomplish a paradigm shift in the recovery of resources from waste.
Our partners
The METEORR project has 5 industrial partners.
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