Multifunctional sustainable adsorbents for water treatment assisted with plasma technologies and for health protection from xenobiotics

多功能可持续吸附剂，用于等离子体技术辅助的水处理和外源性健康保护

• 批准号: EP/Y037170/1
• 负责人: Rosa Busquets Santacana
• 金额: $ 13.4万
• 依托单位: Kingston University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FY037170%2F1
• 关键词: Multifunctional; sustainable; adsorbents; water; treatment

Contamination of drinking-water is an urgent global health concern, preferentially in rural areas, and is highly related to the poor and vulnerable population. This challenge requires a single, easy to handle and low-cost solution able to decrease the levels of pathogens, chemical and radiological hazards to tolerable levels in a single and simple pot (from a sorbent on a glass to a more powerful cold plasma technology). Furthermore, climate change, natural disasters and the actual war in Ukraine urges having available fast effective solutions to avoid the spread of waterborne epidemies and being exposed to unsafe levels of heavy metals or hazardous organic pollutants. The complexity of such contamination including organic/inorganic species, cationic/anionic species, different size and shape, etc., requires a multicomponent system and/or device, in the form of a tablet or monolith, able to tackle specifically each of these hazards at once. In addition, this multicomponent system, besides tacking the problem in water, can be prepared and/or modified to be biocompatible so that it can also be used as a dietary complement to mitigate/remove all these hazards in human body (as enterosorbent). Based on these premises, the main goal of the CLEANWATER project is the design and development of multicomponent sorbents prepared by the combination of safe materials (e.g., activated carbons, bone-chars, pectins, among others) able to eliminate these contaminants in drinking water in a single pot or in combination with cold plasma for complete destruction. Furthermore, this sorbent will be modified accordingly to be applied in human body as a dietary complement to remove these species once assimilated in the body.

饮用水的污染是在农村地区优先考虑的全球健康问题，并且与贫困和脆弱的人口高度相关。这项挑战需要一个易于处理的单一挑战和低成本解决方案，能够将病原体，化学和放射学危害降低到单个简单的锅中的可耐受水平（从玻璃上的吸附剂到更强大的冷等离子技术）。此外，气候变化，自然灾害和乌克兰的实际战争敦促使用快速有效的解决方案，以避免水传播的流行病的传播，并暴露于不安全的重金属或危险的有机污染物中。这种污染的复杂性，包括有机/无机物种，阳离子/阴离子物种，不同的大小和形状等，需要以片剂或整体形式的形式进行多组分系统和/或设备，能够一次具体解决这些危害。此外，除了解决水中的问题外，还可以准备和/或修改以生物相容性，以便它也可以用作减轻/消除人体中所有这些危害（作为肠吸附剂）的饮食补充。基于这些场所，清洁水项目的主要目标是通过安全材料组合（例如活性碳，骨头，果胶，果胶等组合）制备的多组分吸附剂的设计和开发，能够消除单个锅中的饮用水中的这些污染物，或者与冷等离子体混合在一起，以使其完全破坏。此外，这种吸附剂将相应地修改为人体，作为饮食中的补充，以去除体内的这些物种。