With the “FOTOCATGRAF – Fotocatalisadores based on graphene and semiconductors for a water supply system sustainable and safe: advanced technology for removal of emerging pollutants” is intended to “ensure a system of secure water supply and sustainable”.
The project involves 17 researchers and staff of the REQUIMTE/LAQV – research centre of the Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto (FCUP) and Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (INESC-TEC) and CICECO, University of Aveiro, portugal.
according To the professor at the FCUP, technology-based, fotocatalisadores of graphene (one crystalline form of carbon) nanomaterials and semiconductors, and serves to remove emerging pollutants from wastewater treatment plant of the wastewater of the municipalities of the Lys, in the region of west-central Portugal.
“Currently there has been a growing number of new pollutants detected in drinking water and wastewater, which the existing technologies in treatment plants can’t remove, namely the drugs, hormones and their metabolites”, said the researcher.
at This time, the team is carrying out the monitoring of drugs to the input and to the output of the treatment stations of waste water, in order to determine the pollutants most persistent and harmful to the environment and its seasonal variation.
The project counts with the partnership of the company Águas do Centro Litoral, S. A. (AdCL), the group Águas de Portugal, which will enable “the transfer and implementation of the technology developed in the stations of treatment of waste water from the regions north and centre of Portugal”, and also of researchers from the University of Texas at Austin (USA).
Is funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) under the program UT Austin/Portugal, in the area of Emerging Technologies.
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