Difference between revisions of "Team:Aix-Marseille/Integrated Practices"
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Before and during the conception of our process we investigate many subject in order to design a optimal and relevant process. To do so we pick up the advice of many specialists. | Before and during the conception of our process we investigate many subject in order to design a optimal and relevant process. To do so we pick up the advice of many specialists. | ||
| − | We wished first to investigate the platinum mining issue. To do so we asked the iGEM team of Pretoria to provide us some [https://2016.igem.org/Team:Aix-Marseille/Integrated_Practices/Mines information] about condition and consequences of platinum mining. Thanks to these data and bibliography we realized what consequences platinum mining can involve in terms of sustainability, ecology, and social issues and that reinforce our determination find a way to recycle platinum. Dialogue with an [https://2016.igem.org/Team:Aix-Marseille/Integrated_Practices/history historian PhD student] showed us how metals issues have always been a central problematic throughout history. This had strengthen again our feeling that our process was a wise and relevant project to achieve. | + | We wished first to investigate the platinum mining issue. To do so we asked the iGEM team of Pretoria to provide us some [https://2016.igem.org/Team:Aix-Marseille/Integrated_Practices/Mines information] about condition and consequences of platinum mining. Thanks to these data and bibliography we realized what consequences platinum mining can involve in terms of sustainability, ecology, and social issues and that reinforce our determination find a way to recycle platinum. Dialogue with an [https://2016.igem.org/Team:Aix-Marseille/Integrated_Practices/history Mr Minvielle historian PhD student] showed us how metals issues have always been a central problematic throughout history. This had strengthen again our feeling that our process was a wise and relevant project to achieve. |
As we deigned our bio-synthetic project we wonder how our project could be applied for real. We though we could spread our engineered bacteria directly along the roads. But many laws forbid the release of engineered organism in the environment so we decided to change our strategy. | As we deigned our bio-synthetic project we wonder how our project could be applied for real. We though we could spread our engineered bacteria directly along the roads. But many laws forbid the release of engineered organism in the environment so we decided to change our strategy. | ||
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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. | ||
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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. 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. | [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. | ||
