Difference between revisions of "Team:Aix-Marseille/Integrated Practices"
| Line 15: | Line 15: | ||
Thanks to bibliography and [https://2016.igem.org/Team:Aix-Marseille/Integrated_Practices/Environment Mr. Triboit], (an ecologist engineer), we learn that bacteria are able to be in symbiosis with plants roots cells and improve their metals recovery, especially thanks to their siderophore. | Thanks to bibliography and [https://2016.igem.org/Team:Aix-Marseille/Integrated_Practices/Environment Mr. Triboit], (an ecologist engineer), we learn that bacteria are able to be in symbiosis with plants roots cells and improve their metals recovery, especially thanks to their siderophore. | ||
This technique is actually developed in some laboratory but for the realization of our project this would have been a problem with environmental laws too. | This technique is actually developed in some laboratory but for the realization of our project this would have been a problem with environmental laws too. | ||
| + | |||
Mr.Triboit enlighten us about the current situation: many process involving plants and phytoremediation are being developed and our process could appear elsewhere to connect with all these solutions. We realized pretty soon that if our process involve bacteria as we planned, there would be a need to confine it. | Mr.Triboit enlighten us about the current situation: many process involving plants and phytoremediation are being developed and our process could appear elsewhere to connect with all these solutions. We realized pretty soon that if our process involve bacteria as we planned, there would be a need to confine it. | ||
That's how we decided to design a process performed in a controlled environment that could be plugged to other processes occurring directly in environment. Controlled environment means here a bioreactor, at least a process occurring in a environment where parameters are set and controlled, downstream processes are connected, and releases containing organisms are destroyed. | That's how we decided to design a process performed in a controlled environment that could be plugged to other processes occurring directly in environment. Controlled environment means here a bioreactor, at least a process occurring in a environment where parameters are set and controlled, downstream processes are connected, and releases containing organisms are destroyed. | ||
If we were certain of the necessity of developing such a process we were not sure about which already existing biotechnological process (mainly phytoremediation processes) our process could be connected to. | If we were certain of the necessity of developing such a process we were not sure about which already existing biotechnological process (mainly phytoremediation processes) our process could be connected to. | ||
| − | [https://2016.igem.org/Team:Aix-Marseille/Integrated_Practices/Process Mr.Sigoillot], an process engineering expert, helped us to shape our project in a economical way: we decided our process should absolutely end on nanoparticle production in order to produce a highly valuable form. | + | [https://2016.igem.org/Team:Aix-Marseille/Integrated_Practices/Process Mr.Sigoillot], an process engineering expert, helped us to shape our project in a economical way: we decided our process should absolutely end on nanoparticle production in order to produce a highly valuable form. Bibliography had showed us that nanoparticles are indeed more and more used in [https://2016.igem.org/Team:Aix-Marseille/Integrated_Practices/Industry industry] and interest for nanoparticles are steadily growing. |
Moreover Mr. Sigoillot and Mr.Triboit brought us both a crucial aspect of platinum pollution: sewage sludge are so polluted than people would pay to get rid of it! Thus a process starting from sewage sludge as a basic raw material would have positive financial and environmental balance! | Moreover Mr. Sigoillot and Mr.Triboit brought us both a crucial aspect of platinum pollution: sewage sludge are so polluted than people would pay to get rid of it! Thus a process starting from sewage sludge as a basic raw material would have positive financial and environmental balance! | ||
