Chemical companies at the port of Antwerp investigate waste water reuse

12 companies are joining in with the research project

19-Sep-2024 - This month, the CHERISH2O (CHEmical industry water Reuse In a Sustainable Harbour) project starts at the port of Antwerp. Port of Antwerp-Bruges, VITO, essenscia, VMM and Antea Group will investigate whether industrial waste water from chemical companies in the port can be purified on a large ...

Do or dye: Synthetic colors in wastewater pose a threat to food chains worldwide

The ecological and health threats of synthetic dyes entering wastewater systems have been detailed in a new study

01-Nov-2023 - Dyes widely used in the textile, food and pharmaceutical industries pose a pressing threat to plant, animal and human health, as well as natural environments around the world, a new study has found. Billions of tons of dye-containing wastewater enter water systems every year, and a group of ...

Toilet paper is an unexpected source of PFAS in wastewater

03-Mar-2023 - Wastewater can provide clues about a community’s infectious disease status, and even its prescription and illicit drug use. But looking at sewage also provides information on persistent and potentially harmful compounds, such as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), that get released into ...

Scientists develop a method to turn hazardous acidic industrial wastewater into valuable resources

The process reducing the volume of wastewater by 90%

14-Sep-2022 - A research team of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev environmental scientists has developed a circular process for eliminating the risk posed by phosphoric acid plant wastewater. The process turns the environmentally toxic wastewater into clean water while recovering valuable acids. Phosphoric ...

Developing tech to eliminate ‘forever chemicals’ from water

Funding from DOE’s National Alliance for Water Innovation supports UIC research

03-Aug-2022 - Engineers at the University of Illinois Chicago have been awarded just over $1 million from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Alliance for Water Innovation to build a system that selectively removes and destroys poly- and perfluorinated substances, commonly called PFAS and referred to as ...

Going platinum: A non-toxic catalyst for clean, re-usable water

New treatment for harmful aldehydes in wastewater

20-Jun-2022 - Platinum has set a new “gold standard” in jewelry, and now it’s about to upscale the quality of your water. As wastewater treatment for potable – drinkable – reuse becomes a more viable and popular option to address water shortages, the question of what harmful byproducts might form in treatment ...

Rice process aims to strip ammonia from wastewater

Ruthenium and copper catalyze a more environmentally friendly way to produce essential chemical

04-May-2022 - A dash ofrutheniumatoms on a mesh of copper nanowires could be one step toward a revolution in the global ammonia industry that also helps the environment. Collaborators at Rice University’sGeorge R. Brown School of Engineering,Arizona State Universityand Pacific Northwest National ...

Taking the fight to microplastics with lasers

First laser-drilled filter for the filtration of microplastics from wastewater

05-Apr-2022 - Until now, wastewater treatment plants have not been able to sufficiently filter out tiny microplastics in wastewater, but this could soon change: The first laser-drilled microplastic filter is being tested in a wastewater treatment plant. It contains sheets with extremely small holes just 10 ...

New polymer detection method to turn the (pep)tide in the fight against water pollution

Machine-learning based discrimination of multiple signals can detect dissolved polymers

16-Nov-2021 - A peptide sensor to detect water-soluble polymers in wastewater, a major contributor to pollution on par with microplastics, has been developed by scientists from Tokyo Institute of Technology. The new technique takes advantage of the bonding that occurs between peptides and different polymers to ...

Combining sunlight and wastewater nitrate to make the world’s No. 2 chemical

UIC engineers convert nitrates to ammonia in sustainable electrochemical reaction with high solar-to-fuel efficiency

10-Sep-2021 - Engineers at the University of Illinois Chicago have created a solar-powered electrochemical reaction that notonly uses wastewater tomake ammonia — the secondmost-producedchemical in the world — but also achieves a solar-to-fuel efficiency that is 10 times better thanany ...