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A wide range of research projects have been undertaken in both academic and commercial environments. Academic research spans from the early days, as a Research Student (PhD) and Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Kent at Canterbury, to the present, as Lecturer in Environmental Engineering at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. However, the longest period of research activity (10 years) has actually been conducted outside of the university environment, as Project Leader of a number of commercial R&D programmes for two Environmental Biotechnology companies, The International Institute for Biotechnological Studies, and Viridian Bioprocessing Ltd. These programmes were highly innovative near-market product and process development ventures that took fundamental research concepts through to patented, fully commercial processes.
A bioremediation process involving defined Bacterial strains, for the treatment of Paper Manufacturing Chemicals that contain Organohalogen (AOX) contaminants. This process has achieved high product quality to be achieved without altering the chemical manufacturing process, and has resulted in much improved effluent quality for Paper Mills using this new generation of low-AOX paper chemicals.
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This process represents the first sustainable biological system capable of fully effective control of fat, oil and grease deposits within sewer and drainage systems, the system is known as the GREASE DIGESTER. It has been adopted by major catering and fast-food chains in the UK in situations where conventional grease-control equipment has proved to be unsatisfactory.
Publications
Chelliapan S, Wilby T and Sallis P J, (2006). Performance of an up-flow anaerobic stage reactor (UASR) in the treatment of pharmaceutical wastewater containing macrolide antibiotics". Water Research (in press)
Anderson G K, Sallis P J, Uyanik S, (2003a). Anaerobic Treatment Processes. In: Mara D & Horan N (eds) Water and Wastewater Microbiology, Academic Press, London.
Sallis P J, & Uyanik S, (2003). Granule development in a split-feed anaerobic baffled reactor (SFABR). Bioresource Technology, in press.
Uyanik S, Sallis P J, Anderson G K, (2002a). The effect of polymer addition on granulation in an anaerobic baffled reactor (ABR) 1. - Process performance. Water Research 36 (4), pp 933-943.
Uyanik S, Sallis P J, Anderson G K, (2002b). The effect of polymer addition on granulation in an anaerobic baffled reactor (ABR) 2. - Compartmentalization of bacterial populations. Water Research 36 (4), pp 944-955.
Uyanik S, Sallis PJ, Anderson GK, (2002c). Improved split feed anaerobic baffled reactor (SFABR) for shorter start-up period and higher process performance. Water Science & Technology ,46 (4-5): 223-230.
Ince BK, Ince O, Sallis PJ and Anderson GK (2000). Inert COD production in a membrane anaerobic reactor treating brewery wastewater. Water Research, 34 (16), pp. 3943 - 3948)
Assis, H.M.S., Sallis P.J., Bull, A.T., Hardman D.J., (1998). Biochemical Characterisation of a Haloalcohol dehalogenase from Arthrobacter erithii H10a. Enzyme and Microbial Technology, 22(7), 568 - 574.
Armfield, S.J., Sallis, P.J., Baker, P.B., Bull, A.T., Hardman, D.J., (1995). Dehalogenation of Haloalkanes by Rhodococcus erythropolis Y2. Biodegradation.6, (3), 237-246
Sallis, P.J., Armfield, S.J., Bull, A.T., Hardman, D.J., (1990). Isolation and characterisation of a haloalkane halidohydrolase from Rhodococcus erythropolis Y2. Journal of General Microbiology, 136, 115-120.
Diaz, P.E., Sallis, P.J., Bunch, A.W., Bull, A.T., Hardman, D.J., (1989). Performance of a 2-haloalkanoate dehalogenase immobilized in a hollow fibre reactor, Enzyme and Microbial Technology, 11, 725-729
Tsang, J.S.H., Sallis, P.J., Bull, A.T., Hardman, D.J., (1988), A monobromoacetate dehalogenase from Pseudomonas cepacia MBA4, Archives of Microbiology, 150, 441-446.
Sallis,P.J., Baker, P., Bull, A.T., Hardman, D.J., (1988), A comparison of the biochemical and immunological properties of some 2-haloacid dehalogenases, Society for General Microbiology Quarterly,14 (4), M 32
Sallis, P.J., Burns, R.G. (1988) Characterization of Amidohydrolases in a Freshwater sediment. Microbial Ecology,17, 159-170.
Sallis, P.J., Burns, R.G., (1983), Amidase enzymes in Aquatic Sediments. Society for General Microbiology Quarterly, 10 (1), M 12
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