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91av Live: How massive sewer-clogging fatbergs are made

Rafaella Villa will explain at 91av Live this month how fat, oil and greaseÌýcan become huge underground fatbergs
Raffaella Villa is an environmental engineer at De Montfort University
Raffaella Villa is an environmental engineer at De Montfort University

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Fat, oil and grease (FOG) in sewers, like in our blood vessels, can accumulate and produce hard deposits which interfere with the sewage flow. will explain at 91av live how these deposits grow bigger over time and can become huge underground fatbergs, composed of saponified fats congealed with non-flushable products.

Based at De Montfort University, Villa is an expert on microbial bioengineering and uses her particular expertise in microbial and enzymatic processes in the environmental sectors.

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