An Innovative Sorption Technology for Removing Microplastics from Wastewater
This study is focused on technology development for microplastic removal from wastewater using a sorption process, which would be suitable not only as a tertiary stage of purification in wastewater treatment plants but also for other waters, e.g., process water and surface water. Therefore, cheap na...
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| author | Marketa Spacilova Pavel Dytrych Martin Lexa Lenka Wimmerova Pavel Masin Robert Kvacek Olga Solcova |
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| description | This study is focused on technology development for microplastic removal from wastewater using a sorption process, which would be suitable not only as a tertiary stage of purification in wastewater treatment plants but also for other waters, e.g., process water and surface water. Therefore, cheap natural materials such as zeolites and bentonites were tested as possible sorbents. This study aims not only at sorbent selection but also at their possible modification by a special water regime improving sorption efficiency and lifetime. Microplastic particles of the majority of common types of plastics were prepared by a newly developed abrasion technique from various plastic items used at home, thus microplastic particle sizes and shapes corresponded to the real microplastics found in waters. Based on results with high reproducibility, a novel method for microplastic characterization based on Raman spectroscopy in combination with SEM/EDX was developed. The removal of microplastics from waste water was tested not only at the laboratory scale but also in a developed semi-operational sorption unit at a real wastewater treatment plant throughout the year with the efficiency of over 90%. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-189f63708f5a46ad93d5ba123b6e7b112023-11-17T08:54:28ZengMDPI AGWater2073-44412023-02-0115589210.3390/w15050892An Innovative Sorption Technology for Removing Microplastics from WastewaterMarketa Spacilova0Pavel Dytrych1Martin Lexa2Lenka Wimmerova3Pavel Masin4Robert Kvacek5Olga Solcova6Department of Catalysis and Reaction Engineering, Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals of the CAS, Rozvojova 135, 165 00 Prague, Czech RepublicDepartment of Catalysis and Reaction Engineering, Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals of the CAS, Rozvojova 135, 165 00 Prague, Czech RepublicDepartment of Wood Processing and Biomat, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamycka 129, 165 00 Prague, Czech RepublicDepartment of Applied Ecology, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamycka 129, 165 00 Prague, Czech RepublicDEKONTA a.s., Dretovice 109, 273 42 Dretovice, Czech RepublicPrazske Vodovody a Kanalizace, a.s., Ke Kablu 971, 102 00 Prague, Czech RepublicDepartment of Catalysis and Reaction Engineering, Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals of the CAS, Rozvojova 135, 165 00 Prague, Czech RepublicThis study is focused on technology development for microplastic removal from wastewater using a sorption process, which would be suitable not only as a tertiary stage of purification in wastewater treatment plants but also for other waters, e.g., process water and surface water. Therefore, cheap natural materials such as zeolites and bentonites were tested as possible sorbents. This study aims not only at sorbent selection but also at their possible modification by a special water regime improving sorption efficiency and lifetime. Microplastic particles of the majority of common types of plastics were prepared by a newly developed abrasion technique from various plastic items used at home, thus microplastic particle sizes and shapes corresponded to the real microplastics found in waters. Based on results with high reproducibility, a novel method for microplastic characterization based on Raman spectroscopy in combination with SEM/EDX was developed. The removal of microplastics from waste water was tested not only at the laboratory scale but also in a developed semi-operational sorption unit at a real wastewater treatment plant throughout the year with the efficiency of over 90%.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/15/5/892microplasticswater treatmentsorptionscale upbentonite |
| spellingShingle | Marketa Spacilova Pavel Dytrych Martin Lexa Lenka Wimmerova Pavel Masin Robert Kvacek Olga Solcova An Innovative Sorption Technology for Removing Microplastics from Wastewater Water microplastics water treatment sorption scale up bentonite |
| title | An Innovative Sorption Technology for Removing Microplastics from Wastewater |
| title_full | An Innovative Sorption Technology for Removing Microplastics from Wastewater |
| title_fullStr | An Innovative Sorption Technology for Removing Microplastics from Wastewater |
| title_full_unstemmed | An Innovative Sorption Technology for Removing Microplastics from Wastewater |
| title_short | An Innovative Sorption Technology for Removing Microplastics from Wastewater |
| title_sort | innovative sorption technology for removing microplastics from wastewater |
| topic | microplastics water treatment sorption scale up bentonite |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/15/5/892 |
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