Combined treatments based on advanced oxidation and adsorption of wastewater containing emerging contaminants

• Grant number: 25/04520-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: July 31, 2025
• End date: January 30, 2026
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Sanitary Engineering - Water Supply and Wastewater Treatment
• Principal Investigator: Patricia Prediger
• Grantee: Paula Mayara Morais da Silva
• Supervisor: Jan Hofman
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Tecnologia (FT). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Limeira , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: University of Bath, England
• Associated to the scholarship: 22/09912-1 - Preparation of new hydrogels containing mesoporous carbons from plastic waste and doped with metals: application in the removal of antibiotics from water and toxicological analysis, BP.DR

Abstract

Pharmaceuticals are emerging contaminants currently found in the aquatic environment. The necessity of improving the effluents treatment is an urgent matter. With this context, the objective of this project is to study the combination of advanced oxidative process and adsorption treatments of a multicomponent system of emerging contaminants. The proposal of combining water treatments technologies is to improve the treatment and combine the best advantages of each treatment. This project will also be divided in two subprojects: (1) combination of these water treatment to treat a multicomponent system of emerging contaminants (antipyrine, carbamazepine, and iopamidol); (2) combination of these water treatment to treat a mixture of two beta-blockers (propranolol and metoprolol), whose effluent will be study through their toxicity in the University of Aveiro (Portugal). (AU)