Within the activities of the cultural season of the Environmental Research Centre, the assistant teacher of Marwa Khaled Razak gave a lecture entitled (Synthesis of nanoparticles and silver with the use of the syx of the synthe plant and the study of their effect on the models of the methylation of genes that make up the biofilms in the pseudo-Aerospra). Through the lecture, she showed how to treat the pseudo-Aeronacula bacteria with silver nanoparticles, then the analysis of the methylation of the pslA and pslB gene catalysts using the treatment of then MS-PCR and that the silver nanoparticles stop the excessive methylation of the pslB gene catalyst, which may explain the decrease in gene expression after treatment with these nanoparticles.

As part of the activities of the cultural season of the Environmental Research Center Dr. Zahraa Zahrao Farhan gave a lecture entitled Bio Render, where she discussed how to use the online software tool Bio Render, which helps researchers create and share beautiful and professional scientific shapes and drawings in minutes, as well as create shapes for scientific results, presentations, and scientific posters. This application also enables you to collaborate with other scientists and export your results in high-quality formats. Bio Render is used by thousands of trusted institutions and has been featured in numerous scientific journals.

Within the activities of the Environmental Research Center and the activities of the cultural season, Asst prof Dr. Rana Riyad Khalil gave a lecture entitled (Reliability of the Environmental Research Center’s laboratories), as she touched on the Iraqi standards for the quality of the laboratories of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research and the reliability of laboratories according to the international specification ISO/IEC 17025:2005. The adoption of these standards in Iraq aims to raise the level of confidence in the results of tests and calibration. Produced by laboratories, and promoting the international exchange of goods and services by ensuring their compliance with international standards.

As part of the activities of the Environmental Research Center and the activities of the cultural season, the researcher and academic, Dr. Muwaffaq Hussein Al-Lami - a lecturer at the center, carried out a discussion seminar entitled (The Climate Conference of the Parties: International Visions and Analysis) that included an international analysis of the outcomes of the twenty-eighth edition of the Climate Conference of the Parties, which was held in the United Arab Emirates for the period between November 30 and December 11, 2023, which represents one of the most important international conferences organized periodically by the United Nations Climate Change Organization. The lecturer stressed the importance of intellectual cross-fertilization and knowledge and technical exchange to address and limit the phenomenon of the increasing rise in global temperatures and the worsening of unexpected weather conditions, on the basis of which the Climate Conference of the Parties emerged in this session to play a pivotal role in raising concerns and taking necessary measures to limit the consequences of these steady changes.

In line with the university’s approach to achieving sustainable development goals, especially the sixth goal (Clean Water and Sanitation), the Environmental Research Center holds a scientific symposium on wastewater treatment using MBBR technology.

Under the patronage of the President of the University of Technology, Professor Dr. Ahmed Muhammad Hassan Al-Ghaban, the Environmental Research Center at the university held a scientific symposium on the occasion of Earth Day entitled Wastewater Treatment Using the Moving Membrane Technology (MBBR), delivered by the Director of the Center, Professor Dr. Zainab Bahaa Muhammad, in the presence of teaching staff and employees of the Center and the University.
In it, I mentioned that recently, water resources in Iraq have witnessed a deterioration in terms of quantity and quality. Moreover, the current central wastewater treatment plants are unable to meet the increasing demand due to the high rate of population increase. She added that Halvard Odegaard is the name of the Norwegian professor who founded the biomembrane reactor transfer technology. .
Bahaa touched on the definition of MBBR, which is a biofilm reactor to create a fixed form, where the biomass is created with a density slightly higher than water on small carrier components. The approach focuses on the carriers in which the biomass is connected and grown, and the impact of the production of carrier materials, especially for wastewater plants loaded with Large in size and shape. As for the benefits of MBBR, biomembrane processes generally require less space than activated sludge systems because the biomass is more concentrated and the efficiency of the system is less dependent on the final separation of the sludge. MBBR systems do not require sludge recycling as is the case with activated sludge systems. They are often installed MBBR system as a retrofit of existing activated sludge tanks to increase the capacity of the existing system and the filling degree of the tankers can be adapted to the specific situation and required capacity thus the existing treatment plant can increase its capacity without increasing the space by building new tanks.