Intelligent remediation system for removal of harmful contaminants in water using modified reticulated vitreous carbon foams

Organic contaminants in the form of drugs, antibiotics, hormones or dioxins are one of the basic problems of advanced water management and its secondary use for business purposes. Pollutants can be effectively eliminated by electrocatalytic processes. The main goal of the project is based on constructing a water remediation system, based on an electrochemical reactor, with an implemented artificial intelligence system that allows increasing the efficiency of the process. The high performance of the electrochemical reactor will be guaranteed by the creation of dedicated electrodes based on glassy carbon foams, with a high degree of surface development, surface-modified using metal oxides and diamond layers. During the implementation of the project, electrode materials of high application and implementation importance will be produced and improved. The project will contribute to the development of material and electrochemical laboratories located at the faculties of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics, and the Chemical University of Gdańsk. The direct effect of the project will be the creation of technology allowing the construction of electrochemical reactors for purifying water from soluble and toxic organic pollutants, ready for further commercialization. In addition, the conducted research will result in the form of numerous publications in magazines included in the Q1 JCR List (not less than 100 Ministry of Science and Higher Education points). The research project will be carried out in a scientific consortium together with the Institute of Biotechnology and Molecular Medicine (leader), the SensDx company and a partner from Norway - the Norwegian Institute for Air Research. Broad and interdisciplinary scientific cooperation will contribute to an increase in the attractiveness of the scientific offer of the Gdańsk University of Technology.

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Project's acronym:

i-CLARE

Financial Program Name:

EEA and Norway grants - Applied Research Programme

Organization:

Narodowe Centrum Badań i Rozwoju (NCBR) (The National Centre for Research and Development)

Agreement:

NOR/POLNOR/i-CLARE/0038/2019-00 z dnia 2020-10-19

Realisation period:

2020-10-01 - 2024-04-30

Research team leader:

dr hab. inż. Robert Bogdanowicz

Team members:

researcher dr hab. inż. Jacek Ryl

Realised in:

Department of Metrology and Optoelectronics

External institutions participating in project:

Norwegian Institute for Air Research (Norway)
SensDX (Poland)
Instytut Biotechnologii i Medycyny Molekularnej (Poland)

Project's value:

6 930 210.68 PLN

Request type:

International Research Programmes

Domestic:

International project

Verified by:

Gdańsk University of Technology

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Year 2022

Electrocatalytic performance of oxygen-activated carbon fibre felt anodes mediating degradation mechanism of acetaminophen in aqueous environments
Publication
- P. Jakóbczyk
- G. Skowierzak
- I. Kaczmarzyk
- M. Nadolska-Dawidowska
- A. Wcisło
- K. Lota
- R. Bogdanowicz
- T. Ossowski
- P. Rostkowski
- G. Lota
- J. Ryl
- CHEMOSPHERE - Year 2022
Carbon felts are flexible and scalable, have high specific areas, and are highly conductive materials that fit the requirements for both anodes and cathodes in advanced electrocatalytic processes. Advanced oxidative modi- fication processes (thermal, chemical, and plasma-chemical) were applied to carbon felt anodes to enhance their efficiency towards electro-oxidation. The modification of the porous anodes results in increased...

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Nonconventional 1,8-Diazafluoren-9-One Aggregates for Green Light Enhancement in Hybrid Biocompatible Media
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- A. Lewkowicz
- M. Pierpaoli
- K. Walczewska-Szewc
- M. Czarnomska
- P. Bojarski
- R. Bogdanowicz
- S. Pogorzelski
- L. Kułak
- J. Karczewski
- Materials - Year 2022
Organic aggregates currently play a prominent role, mainly for their unique optoelectronic properties in the aggregated state. Such properties can be related to the aggregates’ structure and the molecular packing mode. In the literature, we have well-established models of H and J aggregates defined based on the molecular exciton model. However, unconventional aggregates, the most unrecognized forms, have been generating interest...

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Year 2023

Engineering boron and nitrogen codoped carbon nanoarchitectures to tailor molecularly imprinted polymers for PFOS determination
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- JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS - Year 2023
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have gained significant attention as emerging contaminants due to their persistence, abundance, and adverse health effects. Consequently, the urgent need for ubiquitous and effective sensors capable of detecting and quantifying PFAS in complex environmental samples has become a priority. In this study, we present the development of an ultrasensitive molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP)...

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Year 2024

Enhanced electrochemical activity of boron-doped nanocarbon functionalized reticulated vitreous carbon structures for water treatment applications
Publication
- I. Kaczmarzyk
- M. Banasiak
- P. Jakóbczyk
- M. Sobaszek
- G. Strugała
- T. Seramak
- P. Rostkowski
- J. Karczewski
- M. Sawczak
- J. Ryl
- R. Bogdanowicz
- DIAMOND AND RELATED MATERIALS - Year 2024
An extraordinary charge transfer kinetics and chemical stability make a boron-doped diamond (BDD) a prom- ising material for electrochemical applications including wastewater treatment. Yet, with flat geometrical sur- faces its scaling options are limited. In this study, the reticulated Vitreous Carbon (RVC) served as a substrate for boron-doped diamondized nanocarbons (BDNC) film growth resulting with complex heterogeneity carbon structures...

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