IDAHO FALLS â Every year, it takes millions of gallons of water to clean, peel and slice Idahoâs potatoes before theyâre processed into any number of products from tater tots and animal feed to industrial starch.
As a result, Idaho potato processors must treat and dispose of a large amount of wastewater that contains organic matter, silt and sand.
But now, new research from Idaho National Laboratory suggests that potato wastewater might serve well as a low-cost food source for a special bacterium that could be used to recycle high-tech devices, industrial catalysts and other sources of rare earth elements.
Potato wastewater could feed bacteria used to recycle high tech devices
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IDAHO FALLS Every year, it takes millions of gallons of water to clean, peel and slice Idaho’s potatoes before they’re processed into any number of products from tater tots and animal feed to industrial starch.
As a result, Idaho potato processors must treat and dispose of a large amount of wastewater that contains organic matter, silt and sand.
But now, new research from Idaho National Laboratory suggests that potato wastewater might serve well as a low-cost food source for a special bacterium that could be used to recycle high tech devices, industrial catalysts and other sources of rare earth elements.
First Cobalt secures funding from U.S. Department of Energy s Critical Materials Institute
First Cobalt Corp (CVE: FCC- OTCQX: FTSSF) CEO Trent Mell joined Steve Darling from Proactive to share details the company has been awarded funding from the US Department of Energy s Critical Materials Institute for research on innovative mineral processing techniques for the Iron Creek copper-cobalt project in Idaho. First Cobalt was one of only four projects selected for funding.
Mell telling Proactive the funding will be for 600,000 over a two-year period to work with the Kroll Institute for Extractive Metallurgy at the Colorado School of Mines to optimize the recovery of cobalt. First Cobalt was one of only four projects selected for this funding.
First Cobalt to get $600,000 in US DoE funding over two years for collaborative mineral processing research program
The funds will go towards research conducted in conjunction with the Kroll Institute for Extractive Metallurgy at the Colorado School of Mines, to identify efficient and environmentally friendly methods to process cobalt ore from pyrite More than 200kg of drill core material has been shipped to the Colorado School of Mines, which will work to further characterize the physical properties of cobalt ore
First Cobalt Corp (CVE:FCC) (OTCQX:FTSSF) (FRA:18P) announced that it has been awarded funding from the US Department of Energy s Critical Materials Institute (CMI) to research innovative mineral processing techniques for its Iron Creek copper-cobalt project in Idaho.
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