South African Firm Treats Water with Special Bacteria
“We are here to display water treatment technology based on where we use bacteria to treat the water which has been infected with mining activities and the water which is not suitable to be discharged into the environment,” Mothusi Marumo, a senior technician at the MIKTEK company, told ANA.
“We have come up with a biological process that removes the hazardous materials from water and this method can be used in areas which have mining activities, and the treated water can be used for irrigation,” he added.
Noting that he has visited Iran for the first time, Marumo said, “If there is any interested party in Iran, we will be happy to cooperate with them.”
Bacteria are further categorized by how they get oxygen. In wastewater treatment, three different types of bacteria are used to treat the waste coming into the treatment plant: aerobic, anaerobic and facultative.
INOTEX 2024, the innovation and technology exhibition, opened at Tehran's Pardis Science and Technology Park on May 7 in the presence of Iranian Vice-President for Science and Technology Rouhollah Dehqani Firouzabadi.
Delivering a speech in the opening ceremony, Dehqani Firouzabadi described the INOTEX as a good event and a pivot for bringing all Iranian technological ecosystems together so that it could accelerate the rapid development of Iran's innovation.
He said that there are 10,000 knowledge-based companies in the country that have more than 530 billion tomans in sales and have had exports 3 times more than last year.
Knowledge-based companies have registered $2.5 billion of exports, Dehqani Firouzabadi added.
He noted that last year 43 foreign delegations were hosted by Iran, and underlined the country's readiness to share its knowledge-based experiences and cooperate to have joint tech parks.
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