Young Iranian Scientists’ Innovative Solution to Global Water Challenge Accepted at UN
“Iran's National Invention and Innovation Team presented an innovative plan in the field of water in the global innovation platform, and this plan was accepted during the reviews conducted by the SDG and released on the United Nations Sustainable Development website,” said Amir Abbas Mohammadi Koushki, the head of Iran’s National Invention and Innovation Team.
He added that the platform deals with all challenges in the field of waters and oceans and its environmental issues.
“This plan is a platform in the field of water, in a part of which, countries can present their challenges, and with the help of innovation and companies, innovative solutions will be provided to settle the challenge,” he added.
“In another part, this platform elaborates on the environmental fields and ways to prevent water and ocean pollution through training the young people,” Mohammadi Koushki said.
Iranian scientists have so far presented many plans to treat wastewater and save clean water.
In a latest development in September, Iranian researchers at Noushirvani University of Babol managed to optimize treatment of industrial wastewater by using nanotechnology.
"In order to increase the specific surface and porosity and the absorption capacity, cavitation agents can be used. Therefore, during the preparation of composite absorbents by adding materials like cassava starch granules and calcium carbonate and then removing them from the absorber can increase the size of the holes and correct the distribution of holes in the absorber,” said Meysam Sadeqi, a PhD graduate of chemical engineering from Noushirvani University of Babol.
He added that materials like nickel, titanium oxide, stainless steel, glass and silica-zirconia can be used as absorbent condensing core in cellulose composite.
“Also in order to reduce costs for preparation of cellulosic composite resin, a cheaper solvent can be used to dissolve cellulose,” Sadeqi said.
He noted that to achieve industrial production and its use in the fields of biotechnology, DNA isolation biology, centrifugation, filtration, cell destruction, separation, surface absorption, deposition, electrophoresis, crystallization, etc., there is a need for assessing the feasibility of using sorbents in semi-industrial scales and industrial downstream processes, optimization of effective parameters on ligands to achieve optimal efficiency in the developed platform and studying their performance in larger scale columns.
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