{"id":1604,"date":"2014-09-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-636\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:30:55","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:30:55","slug":"innovation-anthology-636","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2014\/09\/11\/innovation-anthology-636\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #636:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 636.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n<!--\n \/* Font Definitions *\/\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:Arial;\n\tpanose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4;\n\tmso-font-charset:0;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:auto;\n\tmso-font-pitch:variable;\n\tmso-font-signature:-536859905 -1073711037 9 0 511 0;}\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:\"Cambria Math\";\n\tpanose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;\n\tmso-font-charset:0;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:auto;\n\tmso-font-pitch:variable;\n\tmso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;}\n \/* Style Definitions *\/\np.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal\n\t{mso-style-unhide:no;\n\tmso-style-qformat:yes;\n\tmso-style-parent:\"\";\n\tmargin:0cm;\n\tmargin-bottom:.0001pt;\n\tmso-pagination:none;\n\tmso-hyphenate:none;\n\tmso-layout-grid-align:none;\n\tpunctuation-wrap:simple;\n\ttext-autospace:none;\n\tfont-size:12.0pt;\n\tmso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\";\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";}\n.MsoChpDefault\n\t{mso-style-type:export-only;\n\tmso-default-props:yes;\n\tfont-size:10.0pt;\n\tmso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt;\n\tmso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;}\n@page WordSection1\n\t{size:612.0pt 792.0pt;\n\tmargin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt;\n\tmso-header-margin:36.0pt;\n\tmso-footer-margin:36.0pt;\n\tmso-paper-source:0;}\ndiv.WordSection1\n\t{page:WordSection1;}\n-->\n<\/style>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Dr. Mohamed Gamal El-Din<\/span> currently holds the NSERC Senior Industrial Research Chair in Oil Sands Tailings Water Treatment at the University of Alberta.<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"> <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"> <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">He supervises many PhD and graduate students who working on innovative ways to detoxify tailings water.<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"> <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"> <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">DR MOHAMED GAMAL EL-DIN:<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/strong><em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: black;\">We have actually a large number of projects.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Some of them are focused on using physical approaches for treating the oil sands process water.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Some are using chemical approaches such as applying things like ozone treatment.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>Some other projects use the approach of absorbing the contaminants from that process water on some absorbents.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>We have projects at the biological treatment approaches, so relying on the biology and relying on the microbiology and systems involving microorganisms.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>We are also having projects in the area of designing treatment reactors and modeling them.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>We have projects in the area of characterizing that very complex matrix, because if you know more about what&#8217;s in it, then you can actually predict the performance, and design a good treatment system.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <br \/><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"> <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: black;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"> <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: black;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\"><\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\"><\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"> <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: black;\">Dr. Gamal El-Din says some of these projects are already showing successful results.<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"> <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; 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