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Enviromental Policy and Governance

Project n° LIFE 11 ENV/IT/0075

FINAL REPORT

Rotating Bioreactors for Sustainable hydrogen sulphide Removal

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PART II: Dissemination

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DISSEMINATION: PRESENTATIONS The project has been presented at the follows workshops, conferences or seminars:

Exhibition conference Ecomondo 2012, Rimini (Italy) on the 7th November 2012.

PhD Seminar “Biomonitoring and characterization of microbial communities involved in innovative biological processes for civil and industrial wastewater treatment.”, Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Pisa (Italy) on February 2013. Organized by Department of Biology, University of Pisa

Workshop “La riduzione delle emissioni di gas serra nell’agricoltura della Regione Toscana”, Pisa (Italy) on the 19th April 2013. Organized by LIFE+ IPNOA Project.

Workshop “Soluzioni innovative per il trattamento e la gestione delle acque reflue”, Firenze (Italy) on 16th-17th May 2013. Organized by LIFE+ SHOWW Project.

Workshop “Technological innovation through LIFE project: the best solution compared”, Ecomondo 2013, Rimini (Italy) on 07th November 2013. Organized by LIFE+ SHOWW Project.

PhD Seminar “A sludge and solid waste managment strategy for a resilent Tuscany tannery district”, Plenary Meeting of International PhD, organized by University of Florence and Technische Universität Brauschweig, Engineering School, University of Pisa, Pisa (Italy) on 07th November 2013. Organized by Department of Biology, University of Pisa.

Seminar to bachelors students “The LIFE Project BIOSUR”, Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Pisa (Italy) on 10th December 2013. Organized by Claudia Vannini Unipi.

National Conference, XIII Congress of the Italian Federation of Life Sciences (FISV 2014). Pisa (Italy), 24th-27th September 2014; poster.

International conference, XI Latinoamerican Symposium of Anaerobic Digestion, La Havana, Cuba, 24th-27th November 2014; oral presentation and proceeding publication.

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Seminar for the students of Laurea Magistrale in Biologia, Dipartimento di Biologia dell’Università di Pisa, 10th December 2014; Pisa.

International conference, Euromed 2015 Desalination for Clean Water and Energy. Palermo (Italy), 10th-14th May 2015; oral presentation.

American Society for Microbiology, 115th General Meeting, New Orleans Louisiana (USA), May 30th June 2nd 2015; poster.

European conference, 6th Congress of European Microbiologists (FEMS 2015 Congress). Maastricht (Nederland), 7th-11th June 2015; two poster.

Symposium on Acquatic Microbial Ecology, Second EMBO Conference on Aquatic Microbial Ecology, Uppsula, Sweden, August 23th – 28th 2015; poster.

Società Italiana di Microbiologia Generale e Biotecnologie Microbiche, XXXI Meeting, Ravvenna, Italy, September 23th - 26th 2015; poster.

Società Italiana di Microbiologia Agraria, Alimentare e Ambientale, 3rd International Conference on Microbial Diversity, Perugia, Italy, 27th – 29th October 2015; poster.

Workshop “Air: la gestione e il controllo delle emissioni odorigene” Ecomondo 2015. Rimini (IT), 3rd - 6th November 2015; oral presentation and poster.

International conference, 6th IWA Conference on Odours & Air Emissions. Paris (France), 16th-18th November 2015; oral presentation. Conference deleted after the terrorist attack of Paris in the 14th of November; Proceeding publication;

International conference, 14th World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion. Vina del Mar (Chile), 15th-18th November 2015; poster.

Workshop project META “Matter and Energy from Tannery Sludge”. Santa Croce sull’Arno (Pisa), 18th June 2015; oral presentation.

International conference, THE 8th Eastern European Young Water Professionals Conference, Gdańsk University of Technology – Poland, 12-14 may 2016; oral presentation.

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International conference, 3rd IWA Specialized International Conference “Ecotechnologies for Wastewater Treatment” (ecostp16), Cambridge (UK), 27-30 June 2016; poster.

International conference, SIDISA 2016 International Symposium of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering, Rome (Italy), 19 – 23 June 2016; oral presentation.

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DISSEMINATION: PUBLICATIONS

Five scientific publications (1 in national magazine and 4 in peer review papers) have been produced.

1. C. Giordano, F. Spennati, A. Melone, G. Petroni, F. Verni, G. Munz, G. Mori, C. Vannini. Biological sulfur-oxidizing potential of primary and biological sludge in a tannery

wastewater treatment plant. Published on “Water, air and soil pollution”.

2. F. Spennati, A. Mannucci, G. Mori, G. Munz. Moving Bed BioTrickling Filter for hydrogen sulphide removal from gas streams. Submitted to “Desalination and water treatment”.

3. C. Giordano, F. Boscaro, G. Munz, G. Mori, C. Vannini. Summer holidays and seasonality shape a tannery sludge microbial community around a stable core microbiota. Submitted to “Scientific Reports”.

4. Rimozione dell'idrogeno solforato dagli effluenti gassosi in un nuovo reattore a letto rotante. “Hi-Tech Ambiente”, 08-10-2015.

5. Munz G., Mannucci A., J. Arrola, Alatriste F., Giaccherini F., Mori G. Nitrite and nitrate as electron acceptors for biological sulphide oxidation; Water Science and Technology (in press).

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DISSEMINATION: DIDACTIC WORK WITH LOCAL SCHOOL

The CB has organized, in collaboration with AB, several educational visits at the site of installation of the prototype, both with local schools (elementary and secondary) and with master students. During the visits, the BIOSUR the project was illustrated, with particular reference to the expected results. Local school children were informed about the process and how the microorganisms that grow in the bioreactor are able to remove odours. Master and bachelor students were informed more deeply about the treatment process and the innovative differences with similar technologies. The list of the organized visits are shown in the following table.

DATE ORGANIZATION PARTICIPANTS

09/05/13 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Florence;

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10/05/13 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Florence;

12

14/11/13 Department of Agricultural Sciences, Food and agri-environmental, University of Pisa;

11

29/11/13 Elementary school “G. Giusti”, La Scala San Miniato;

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29/01/14 Comprehensive School "Buonarroti", Ponte a Egola San Miniato;

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21/03/14 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Florence;

13

28/03/14 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Florence;

9

11/04/14

University of Florence, Department of Statistics, Computer Science. Masters in Environment and Energy: risks and opportunities. Economic, legal and technological;

5

23/05/14 Institute for Creative Leather Technologies, School of Science Technology University of Northampton (ENG);

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29/10/14 Training course: “Tecnico delle attività di analisi e monitoraggio di sistemi di gestione ambientale e del territorio” TiForma scrl;

12

06/11/14 Department of Agricultural Sciences, Food and agri-environmental, University of Pisa;

25

24/01/15 Comprehensive School "Buonarroti", Ponte a Egola San Miniato;

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05/05/15

Student delegation constituted by “Consorzio Vera Pelle Conciata al Vegetale” (Artez Olanda, Bunka Fashion College Giappone, Central Saint Martin UK, Fashion Institute of Technology USA, HAMIK Finlandia, HIKO MIZUNO Giappone, Koomin University ROK, London College of fashion UK, Rhode Insland School of design USA, SLEM Olanda);

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15/05/15 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Florence;

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12/11/15 Department of Agricultural Sciences, Food and agri-environmental, University of Pisa;

13

26/11/15 SCAD – Savannah College Georgia USA. Student delegation constituted by “Consorzio Vera Pelle Conciata al Vegetale”;

10

Table 2 – List of the visits at the plant.

More than 450 visitors have participated to the visits of the prototype. Furthermore, from January 2014 to date, the prototype was presented to several small delegations visiting the Cuoiodepur’s WWTP, for commercial, technical or institutional visits or meetings, coming not only from Italy, but also from European and extra Europe countries.

Figure 25 – Consorzio Vera Pelle Conciata al Vegetale visit at the plant (1/2).

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Figure 26 – Consorzio Vera Pelle Conciata al Vegetale visit at the plant (2/2).

Figure 27 – Comprehensive School "Buonarroti" visit at the plant.

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Figure 28 – Elementary School "G.Giusti" visit at the plant.

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DISSEMINATION: GUIDE BOOK

It is an instrument full of information about the BIOSUR LIFE project; different from a typical “Guide book”, generally referred to a book full of details about places, designed for the use of visitors or tourists. In this case we developed a guide with the aim of providing a friendly-user instrument in which are described the mostly important things about our project:

WHO we are; WHY this project was born; WHERE the prototype is situated; The FEATURES of the reactor; HOW it’s work; the MANAGEMENT and the MONITORING plan; a biology CHARACTERIZATION of the biomass; the EFFICIENCY and the EFFECTIVENESS of the processes; some PRESENTATIONS of conferences; the VIDEO we made; some PICTURES.

This guide has been produced with the program called "AutoPlay Media Studio 8 Professional"; which allowed to create in very handy interactive CD that immediately extract the required information with few clicks, as the pictures below shown.

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Figure 29 – ElemPicture from the Guide Book.

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Partner di progetto / Project partner

Consorzio Cuoiodepur Spa Via Arginale Ovest, 81 – 56020

San Romano – San Miniato - Pisa - Italy http://www.cuoiodepur.it

Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Ambientale Università degli Studi di Firenze Via di Santa Marta, 3 – 50139

Firenze - Italy http://www.dicea.unifi.it/isa/

Italprogetti Engineering Srl Lungarno Pacinotti, 59/A - 56020

Montopoli in Val d'Arno - Pisa - Italy http://www.italprogetti.it

Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Pisa Via L. Ghini, 5 – 56126

Pisa – Italy http://www.biologia.unipi.it

CONSORZIO CUOIODEPUR SPA: Gualtiero Mori Project Manager

DIP. DI ING.CIVILE E AMBIENTALE (Univ. di Firenze) Giulio Munz Team Leader

ITALPROGETTI ENGINEERING Srl: Gabriele D’Elia Team Leader

DIP. DI BIOLOGIA (Università di Pisa): Claudia Vannini Team Leader