An Innovative Sorption Technology for Removing Microplastics from Wastewater
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985858%3A_____%2F23%3A00569558" target="_blank" >RIV/67985858:_____/23:00569558 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/15/5/892/review_report" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/15/5/892/review_report</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w15050892" target="_blank" >10.3390/w15050892</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
An Innovative Sorption Technology for Removing Microplastics from Wastewater
Original language description
This study is focused on technology development for microplastic removal from wastewater using a sorption process, which would be suitable not only as a tertiary stage of purification in wastewater treatment plants but also for other waters, e.g., process water and surface water. Therefore, cheap natural materials such as zeolites and bentonites were tested as possible sorbents. This study aims not only at sorbent selection but also at their possible modification by a special water regime improving sorption efficiency and lifetime. Microplastic particles of the majority of common types of plastics were prepared by a newly developed abrasion technique from various plastic items used at home, thus microplastic particle sizes and shapes corresponded to the real microplastics found in waters. Based on results with high reproducibility, a novel method for microplastic characterization based on Raman spectroscopy in combination with SEM/EDX was developed. The removal of microplastics from waste water was tested not only at the laboratory scale but also in a developed semi-operational sorption unit at a real wastewater treatment plant throughout the year with the efficiency of over 90%.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
20402 - Chemical process engineering
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/FV40126" target="_blank" >FV40126: Advanced sorbents for separation of microplastics and micropollutants from water</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Water
ISSN
2073-4441
e-ISSN
2073-4441
Volume of the periodical
15
Issue of the periodical within the volume
MAR 2023
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
892
UT code for WoS article
000948034900001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85149927963