India

2010 EPP fellow in SANDEC, Ms.Elizabeth Tilley and Dr.Kai Udert

S.Ramesh Sakthivel
April-July , 2010
Ph.D Student, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India

At Eawag, under the EPP programme I carried out a study titled “Dissolution of Magnesium and Struvite Precipitation Kinetics from Stores Urine using Different Magnesium Sources”.

The study involved conducting dissolution and precipitation experiments using stored urine. Various magnesium sources including Bittern and Wood Ash were utilized for the experiments. I was also introduced to the chemical process modeling software Aquasim, software developed by Eawag, for analyzing results of the experimental data. The study outputs will be useful in designing reactors for struvite precipitation from stored urine. The work carried out will be published in an international journal and also will form a major part of my PhD thesis.

I would like to thank my supervisors, Ms.Elizebath Tilley and Dr.Kai Udert for their profound support and guidance. I take this opportunity to thank all the staff at Eawag for extending excellent cooperation to carry out the study and to the members of EPP committee for selecting me for the fellowship