Conveners
Water Treatment
- Gregor Primc (Jožef Stefan Institute)
Water Treatment: Summary and Discussion
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Water scarcity is among the most pressing problems of the modern world. Water usage estimates vary, but about 70% of worldwide water is used for irrigation for growing crops [1]. With the latest advancements in climate change and shortage of food, pressing issues with water scarcity will only escalate. Stated facts point to minimizing agricultural water usage, which can be achieved by...
Removal of micropollutants (MPs)/emerging contaminants (ECs) is crucial for ensuring water quality and safeguarding human and environmental health due to their carcinogenic, mutagenic and endocrine disruptive effects on living organisms (i.e. humans and animals) (EU Directives 2013/39/EU). These contaminants include pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs) [1], heavy metals, and xenobiotic...
The interaction between low-temperature plasmas and liquid surfaces is a critical problem in many emerging plasma applications including plasma medicine, chemical processing, and water treatment, where precise control over the generation of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species, as well as solvated electrons, is essential. However, comprehensively characterizing the plasma-liquid interface...
A promising approach for removing methylene blue (MB) in wastewater is the plasma liquid interface (PLI). Indeed, PLI can destroy contaminants at room temperature without adding chemicals due to PLI's ability to provide abundant environmental oxidation at the interface, including OH, O, H2O2, radicals, excited species, electrons, and ions. Herein, the removal of MB in water was investigated by...
