The interactions we had here was really more focused in the scientific aspect of our project.

As we investigated on the wide range of available techniques able to perform our purpose (recover platinum) we wonder what would be the imperative in our process... While searching among uses of platinum in industry we found that nanoparticles was a very valuable form a platinum and increasingly used. So we focused our process in order to have nanoparticle as a final product.  

The main question that we wondered was how to transpose our process (designed on a scale up) to the industrial scale. This is a tough question, and theoretical knowledge is not enough to answer the question. That why we contacted a expert in process engineering and biotechnology to advise us to determine the feasibility of our project. Hence he was really interested in our project we could have had fruitful conversations... Thanks to him we have been able to assess and estimate representative values of our project applied on a industrial scale (such as, yields, cost, prices, concentration factors, amount of raw materials needed .....). Moreover his recommendations has shape our project as we focused on the platinum recovery from sewage sludge which is a very advantageous process financially speaking.  

As we didn't really know what was the actual situation in environment and what solutions are being developed to face metal pollution, we asked for advice to an ecologist engineer. He showed us to what extend the situation could be critical about metals pollution, that why we found our project relevant. Thanks to him we have chosen to design a process able to be connected to other process occurring in the environment. Indeed we made us discover a wide range of already existing environmental processes that could be followed by our process.

Thanks to all those people we had very interesting interactions