Engineering defect-intensive ozonation catalysts to degrade micropollutants

该项目旨在设计含有缺陷密集表面的独特颗粒，旨在加速被药物和其他顽固污染物污染的水的催化臭氧化。这将能够使用简单且廉价的催化剂材料及时处理工业废水以及污水处理厂废水。基于湿法和火焰的颗粒制造技术与独特的合成后处理策略（包括耦合氢化-照明方法或等离子体曝光）相结合，将用于缺陷处理，从而生产出更便宜、稳定和高性能的新型催化剂，用于激活臭氧，在不同的工艺条件下处理含有药物和内分泌干扰微污染物的水。

This project aims to engineer unique particles containing defect-intensive surfaces which are designed to accelerate the catalytic ozonation of waters contaminated with pharmaceuticals and other recalcitrant pollutants. This will enable timely treatment of industrial waste water as well as sewerage treatment plant effluents using simple and cheap catalyst materials. Wet- and flame-based particle fabrication technologies paired with unique post-synthesis treatment strategies, including either a coupled hydrogenation-illumination approach or plasma exposure, will be implemented for defect manipulation so as to produce new cheaper, stable, and higher-performing catalysts for activating ozone to treat water containing pharmaceutical and endocrine disrupting micro-pollutants under different process conditions.