Anatoxin-a degradation by using titanium dioxide
- Submitting institution
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Robert Gordon University
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- Edwards_3
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143590
- Title of journal
- Science of The Total Environment
- Article number
- 143590
- First page
- 143590
- Volume
- 756
- Issue
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- ISSN
- 0048-9697
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- An international collaboration study funded by Jagiellonian University (Poland) demonstrated, for the first time, the efficiency of TiO2 photocatalysis for rapid destruction of anatoxin-a, the producer, Dolichospermum flos-aquae, along with released toxins and provides a significant step change to actual application in water treatment. Anatoxin-a, a neurotoxic alkaloid, is a potent global water contaminant produced by blue-green algae which contaminates drinking water supplies. COGERH, a Brazilian water company, has exploited this output in new improved reactors for deployment in water reservoirs in Brazil to eliminate the toxins before water enters the drinking water treatment plant (Dr Mario UG. Barros, mario.barros@cogerh.com.br).
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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