BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY
H-1111 Budapest, Szt.
Gellért sq. 4.
Project Co-Director: Dr.
Katalin Gruiz
Tel/Fax: 463-2347/
463-2598
E-mail: gruiz.mkt@chem.bme.hu
Short
description of the Department of Agricultural Chemical Technology
The BUTE, as one
of the largest Hungarian higher education institutions regards its mission the
differentiated, multilevel, wide based quality education, research and
development.
The Department
of Agricultural Chemical Technology belongs to the Faculty of Chemical
Engineering, and has been involved in the research and teaching for 25 years in
the field of biotechnology, environmental biotechnology and microbiology. The
Department plays main role in the education of bioengineers, chemical
engineers, environmental engineers and medical-biological engineers at graduate
and postgraduate levels.
The research of
the Department refers to several domains of bioengineering and biotechnology as
well as environmental engineering such as:
A
microbial cell type culture collection is maintained at the Department.
Innovative technologies connected to waste water treatment, hazardous waste
treatment, soil and sediment remediation have been developed. Pilot scale
experiments are carried out in the Environmental Innovation Laboratory and the
Biotechnological and Fermentation Pilot Hall of the Department.
Short
decsription of the group, which participates in the project:
Focal point of
the ongoing research is the design of remediation technologies and the
intensification of bioremediation by increasing the bioavailability of organic
compounds and the activity of the microorganisms. Application of CDs in
bioremediation is one of the technologies of great promise. Basic and applied
research is performed in cooperation with CYCLOLAB on the effect of CDs on remediation
of contaminated soil
On the other
hand the group deals with the establishment of scientific basis of ecological
and human risk assessment and give guidance for decision making.
The group
organises international courses for students and researchers, and participates
in international research projects. In the last 5 years environmental
assessment of 12 contaminated sites has been carried out with risk assessment
and risk characterisation. Our aim is to establish the scientific basis of
ecological and human risk assessment and give guidance for decision making.
Basic and applied research is going on on the field of soil remediation and
ecotoxicological testing of soil and sediment.
Bioremediation
is considered as a technology of basic importance in contaminated soil
treatment. Decision support system for the selection of bioremediation
technologies is searched, included aspect of economics and ecology. Criteria
for “humbled” soil remediation (environmentally and ecologally acceptable) is
to be established.
International
and Hungarian projects:
OMFB-PHARE -
TDQM - Eco-Chem Risk, No. 1111
PHARE 101
Ecological risk assessment of micropollutants in the Danube sediment
University of
Bologna - Soil bioremediation, risk assessment of contaminants
Water Quality
Institute, Horsholm, Denmark – Risk assessment of Danube sediment
University of
Zürich – Bioremediation of contaminated soil: research and summer courses
NATO Sfp-973720
A new bioremediation technology for contam. military sites: pilot and field
application
OMFB-Biotechnologia
2000- Terra Humana BIO-00096/2000
OMFB-Biotechnologia
2000 – Methods to monitor bioremediation processes BIO-00066/2000
HPCFCT-1999-00159:
EU5-Improving of Human Potential Programme, High Level Scientific Conference
Studies and research reports:
Microbial
upgrading of waste water treatment I.-II., 1987
Investigation
of the microflora of tannery waste-water containing heavy-metals, 1988
Technology
for biological treatment of waste-waters with high fat-content, 1989
Biotechnologies
for upgrading waste water and sludge treatment I.-II., 1989 - 1990
Biological
treatment of soils contaminated with oil, 1990
Heavy-metal
contam. in Toka-valley: identificaton of main sources, recultivation of soils
and surface waters, 1991
New
ecotoxicological test methods of soil and sediment, containing heavy-metal,
1993
Decontamination
of wastes containing chlorinated hydrocarbon, 1993
Bioremediation
of contaminated soil, 1993
Biotechnologies
for in situ soil treatment at the Tatabánya Mines I-II., 1992 - 1993
Risk
assessment of the World EXPO site, Hungary, Budapest, 1994
Environmental
survey of galvanisation plant in Csepel, 1994
Assessment,
pilot experiments and a remediation plan of a site contamin. with transformer
oil in Hejôcsaba, 1995
Ecotox. and
microbiol. investigation of an industr. waste disposal site in Csepel, Hungary,
Budapest, 1995
Assessment,
pilot tests and remediation plan of a site contaminated by breaking of a
heating oil pipe, 1995
Ecol. risk
assessm. of pollution by heavy metals and org. micro-pollutants in the Danube
area, EU Project, 1996-97
ECO-CHEM
RISK; Risk assessment on Danube sediment, a PHARE Project, 1996-97
Soil
remediation - Course Lecture, Bologna, Italy, 1998
Environmental
Risk Assessment - Course Lecture, Bologna, Italy, 1998
Survey on a
waste disposal site in Budapest, Hungary, 1998
Risk
Assessment of the tailing dump of a former uranium mine, 1998
Bioremediation
of soil contaminated with coal-tar oil, 1998-99
Contaminated
land policy and risk management – Course lecture, Ravenna, Italy, 1999
New cyclodextrin biotechnology for the remediation of contaminated soil,
1998-99
Bioleaching
type technology for soil contaminated with heavy metals, 1998-99
Integrated
monitoring system for a catchment area at Gyöngyösoroszi, 1999