Air, water, and soil pollution is a problem present in industrial environments such as Tuzla Canton (TC). There are solutions, and they are offered by Tuzla professor and innovator Zehrudin Osmanovic, who has already received international recognition for his ideas.
Tuzla, Lukavac, and Zivinice are cities in the TC that are particularly affected by the negative impacts of industrial plants, and they are also burdened by the backlog of chemical processes that took place in pre-war years in companies such as HAK 1 and HAK 2.
In past years, Zehrudin Osmanovic, a professor at the Faculty of Technology at the University of Tuzla, has been trying to find solutions to the problem of environmental pollution from a scientific and professional point of view. All his ideas so far have been awarded at innovation fairs around the world, and the penultimate one has already found application in several companies.
It is about planting fast-growing trees on lands that are contaminated with various chemical elements, due to production processes that occur in industrial complexes. Through his research, this innovator found that the Asian paulownia tree is the best for this purpose.
“In two years, I conducted analyzes and the results showed that a larger amount of negative materials passed into the tree and its leaves. The project envisages that the tree, which becomes contaminated, is cut down and burned in cement plants after growing, eventually used as bio-fuel. Ultimately, all materials that are extracted from the soil in this way would be incorporated into cement in the form of ash, which is one of the raw materials, ” Osmanovic added.
He also focused his scientific skills on elaborating another idea, which he signed together with his colleagues Nisad Avdic, Damir Mulamehmedovic, and Nedzad Haracic.
Their patent, which was approved by the Institute for Intellectual Property of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), requires the allocation of significant financial resources, which is why the idea creators are trying to get closer to the European funds from which the implementation would be financed.
Even though these are projects that require larger investments, the interlocutor noted that they ultimately offer economic viability.
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Source: Klix.ba
