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Energy and Environmental Engineering(CEASE PUBLICATION) Vol. 1(2), pp. 55 - 61
DOI: 10.13189/eee.2013.010203
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Purification of Sewage Water through the Protection of the Environment from Radioactive Contamination
Emad Y. Moawad*
Faculty of Engineering, Ain shams University, Cairo, Egypt
ABSTRACT
There is a double need for better ways of processing both of the radioactive waste water and sewage water. This presentation aims to get rid of the risks of the radioactive wastes instead of being isolated from the environment besides to sewage-water purification. By utilizing transmutation of the radioactive waste products (RWP) in growing the biological cultures contained in sewage-water into stable isotopes of chemical elements to be isolated, protect the environment from the radiation contamination and sewage-water would be purified to be valid once again. During the primary stage of sewage-water purification, RWP dose is added to be transmutated into stable isotopes of chemical elements through growing the associations of the biological cultures contained in this stage. The transmutated active radionuclide should be selected of half-life time less than half the applied primary stage duration and allow the possibility to replace Calcium of the biological cells. Those organisms will react in primary stage by re-programming specific cell functions that may confer resistance to radiation. The radiation burden (Decay energy/cell) of the transmutated RWP dose is the measure of the internal adaptation for the mutagene change occurred in the biological culture. Thus, estimating the required activity of RWP should takes into account that the energy of the administered RWP dose should not exceeds that of the associations of the biological cultures contained in the primary stage. After reaching the NBR level and sedimentation of transmutated RWP for reprocessing, sewage-water should be discharged to the second stage. In the second stage, the bacteria and protozoa consume biodegradable soluble organic contaminants. The biomass grows on media and the sewage passes over its surface prior to discharge to third treatment. In the final treatment a physical disinfection through a nuclear transmutation by electric current passes through the sewage to cause electro-coagulation of the contaminants to separate precipitates from waste water by an electro-magnetic filtering unit.
KEYWORDS
Deinococcus Radiodurans, Nuclear transmutation, Microbial Catalyst-transmutator, Growth energy, Emad formula.
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(a). IEEE Format:
[1] Emad Y. Moawad , "Purification of Sewage Water through the Protection of the Environment from Radioactive Contamination," Energy and Environmental Engineering(CEASE PUBLICATION), Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 55 - 61, 2013. DOI: 10.13189/eee.2013.010203.
(b). APA Format:
Emad Y. Moawad (2013). Purification of Sewage Water through the Protection of the Environment from Radioactive Contamination. Energy and Environmental Engineering(CEASE PUBLICATION), 1(2), 55 - 61. DOI: 10.13189/eee.2013.010203.