{"id":2335,"date":"2017-10-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-909\/"},"modified":"2018-03-22T21:41:47","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T21:41:47","slug":"innovation-anthology-909","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2017\/10\/31\/innovation-anthology-909\/","title":{"rendered":"#909: Dr Mohamed Gamal El-Din: Active &#038; Passive Systems Reclaim Oil Sands Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 909.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<div>Working with Mother Nature is one of the cornerstones of Dr. Mohamed Gamal El-Din&rsquo;s holistic approach to environmental engineering.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>His work on waste water treatment for oil sands combines engineered solutions with natural processes &#8211; what he calls active and passive systems.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>These include the use of end pit lakes, artificial wetlands and bio-filtration.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">DR MOHAMED GAMAL EL-DIN: <\/span>&nbsp; <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">For example, we could look at end pit lakes. &nbsp;It&rsquo;s engineered. &nbsp;They are engineered at the beginning, supervised for awhile, and hopefully, eventually they can be independent. &nbsp; But those end pit lakes, they might require some pretreatment, such as ozone, or advanced oxidation, this could be an approach. &nbsp; &nbsp;Or maybe engineered wetlandsthat you can engineer and design them to be as efficient as you can based on the fundamentals of some &nbsp;aspects of contaminant removal that we worked on in the first six years. &nbsp;And then once they are designed and supervised for a short while, they can independent. &nbsp; So these are all could be looked at as engineered passive systems.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Dr Gamal El-Din also suggests using bio-filtration through engineered soil systems to biologically reclaim oil sands water.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Thanks today to<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> SYNCRUDE<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Learn more at Innovation Anthology.com &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">I&rsquo;M CHERYL CROUCHER<\/span><\/div>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3> , <\/h3>\n<h4>, , , , <\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.syncrude.com\">Syncrude<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/SyncrudeLogo.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02017-10-31<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASTech finalist Dr. Gamal El-Din takes a holistic approach to engineering waste water treatment for oil sands &#8211; combining active and passive systems, with a good dose of Mother Nature. (Sync rude)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,29,59,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-oil-sands","category-syncrude","category-water","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2335"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5287,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335\/revisions\/5287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}