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.

饮用水污染是一个紧迫的全球健康问题，特别是在农村地区，与穷人和弱势群体密切相关。这一挑战需要一种简单、易于操作和低成本的解决方案，能够在一个简单的锅中将病原体、化学和放射性危害的水平降低到可容忍的水平（从玻璃上的吸附剂到更强大的冷等离子体技术）。此外，气候变化、自然灾害和乌克兰的实际战争促使人们采取快速有效的解决方案，以避免水媒鱼类的传播，避免其暴露在不安全的重金属或危险有机污染物水平下。这种污染物的复杂性包括有机/无机物质、阳离子/阴离子物质、不同的尺寸和形状等，需要片剂或单块形式的多组分系统和/或装置，其能够立即专门处理这些危险中的每一种。此外，除了解决水中的问题之外，这种多组分系统还可以被制备和/或改性为生物相容性的，使得它也可以用作膳食补充剂以减轻/消除人体中的所有这些危害（作为肠吸附剂）。基于这些前提，CLEANWATER项目的主要目标是设计和开发由安全材料（例如，活性炭、骨炭、果胶等）能够在单个罐中消除饮用水中的这些污染物或与冷等离子体组合以完全破坏。此外，这种吸附剂将被相应地改性，以作为膳食补充剂应用于人体，一旦在体内被吸收，就将这些物质去除。