Professor Hudson-Edwards awarded NERC Pathfinder grant to develop antimony remediation technology
NERC Pathfinder grant will fund evaluation of Tripuhyite Technology as a means of relieving antimony-contaminated waters.
Professor Karen Hudson-Edwards has been awarded a £14.8 k Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)Pathfinder grant for 6 months for the project titled: Development of the Tripuhyite Technology for remediating antimony-contaminated waters and recovering antimony. NERC Pathfinder grants are innovation awards that aim to realise the commercial potential of NERC-funded research.
The funding will support a market assessment to evaluate the market opportunity and commercial need in order to develop a business model for developing the Tripuhyite Technology and 'Technical Milestone I' experimental work to determine the feasibility of the Tripuhyite Technology. Tripuhyite is iron antimonate oxide, a mineral with low solubility that takes up antimony very readily.
Professor Hudson-Edwards’ research focuses on the use of environmental geochemical and mineralogical techniques to understand the processes and products of the biogeochemical cycling of contaminants in mine wastes, waters, dusts and contaminated land.