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Team
Nuno Gonçalves
Junior ResearcherDescription
Today's wastewater treatment process has evolved over many thousands of years, but there is still room for improvement. Modern wastewater treatment plants are not capable of removing substances such as Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria and Antibiotic Resistance Genes from the environment. In this context, the EU-funded project PURAQUA will work to improve wastewater treatment quality. Specifically, it will develop photoactive membranes with antifouling properties, through additive manufacturing. This can be applied as a post-treatment process after the conventional wastewater treatment. For instance, the project will produce new active and stable photoactive catalysts. It will prepare antifouling membranes by additive manufacturing. A prototype reactor for wastewater treatment at continuous flow will also be developed.
Coordinator
Coordination
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)
Partners
Instituto de Ceramica y Vidrio (ICV-CSIC); Universidade do Porto
Outputs
Simultaneous removal of multiple metal(loid)s and neutralization of acid mine drainage using 3D-printed bauxite-containing geopolymers
Gonçalves, NPF; da Silva, EF; Tarelho, LAC; Labrincha, JA; Novais, RMSmall concentrations, big results: μM addition of photoactive iron oxides with PMS, PDS, or H2O2, leads to enhanced removal of viruses at near-neutral pH
Jia, JL; Minella, M; Ruiz, MC; Decker, J; Li, D; Gonçalves, NPF; Prevot, AB; Lin, T; Giannakis, SEffective acid mine drainage remediation in fixed bed column using porous red mud/fly ash-containing geopolymer spheres
Gonçalves, NPF; Almeida, MM; Labrincha, JA; Novais, RMImpact of pyrolysis heating methods on biochars with enhanced CO2/N2 separation and their incorporation in 3D-printed composites
Correia, I; Ilkaeva, M; Castellino, M; Bocchini, S; Novais, RM; Mafra, L; Gonçalves, NPF; Lourenço, MAO3D-printing bauxite residue/fly ash-containing geopolymers as promising metal sorbents for water treatment
Almeida, MM; Gonçalves, NPF; Gameiro, T; Alves, Z; Labrincha, JA; Novais, RMSponsors
