Monitoring of estriol index in water after bioremediation treatment

• Grant number: 19/25836-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: June 01, 2020
• End date: January 31, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Sanitary Engineering - Environmental Sanitation
• Principal Investigator: Ivana Cesarino
• Grantee: Francisco Contini Barreto
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Agronômicas (FCA). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Botucatu. Botucatu , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The presence of some hormones in spring water that can cause harm to health are not easily removed by the conventional processes of flocculation, decantation, filtration, disinfection and fluoridation. Currently, financial resources are being invested in some countries in a process known as bioremediation for the treatment of water contaminated with different hormones. This scientific initiation project aims to reduce the levels of estriol in contaminated water. For this, the construction of a bioremediation device on a laboratory scale and the monitoring of the variation of the estriol hormone through analyzes based on a specific electrochemical technique are being proposed.

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

BARRETO, FRANCISCO CONTINI; LEME SILVA, MARTIN KASSIO; CESARINO, IVANA. An Electrochemical Sensor Based on Reduced Graphene Oxide and Copper Nanoparticles for Monitoring Estriol Levels in Water Samples after Bioremediation. CHEMOSENSORS, v. 10, n. 10, p. 13-pg., 2022-10-01. (19/25836-0)