New technique could help decontaminate oilsands waste water
The method also helps speed up a process that would otherwise take decades for nature to complete, explained Mohamed Gamal El-Din, a professor who specializes in waste water remediation and led the new study.
“Instead of this process taking 10 to 20 years to occur naturally,
ozonating the contaminated water breaks down the organic compounds,
within minutes, into a source of energy and food for the bacteria
present in the biofilter,” Gamal El-Din said.