{"id":133888,"date":"2022-01-11T02:23:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T10:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/making-light-work-of-emerging-micropollutants"},"modified":"2022-01-11T02:23:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T10:23:17","slug":"making-light-work-of-emerging-micropollutants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/making-light-work-of-emerging-micropollutants","title":{"rendered":"Making light work of emerging micropollutants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/making-light-work-of-emerging-micropollutants2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Carbon-based organic micropollutants in water can be removed by treatment with high-intensity pulses of light in a procedure developed and demonstrated by researchers at KAUST.<\/p>\n<p>This photodegradation process was already known to be feasible, but its use was limited by the long <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/treatment\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">treatment<\/a> times it required. Luca Fortunato, Thomas Anthopoulos and colleagues have demonstrated that this photodegradation treatment can be dramatically accelerated with high-intensity <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/light\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">light<\/a> pulses generated from a xenon flash lamp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn interesting aspect of this work is that we combined the expertise and technologies of two different fields,\u201d says Fortunato. He explains that the collaboration between the two different research departments\u2014KAUST\u2019s Solar Center and Water Desalination and Reuse Center\u2014allowed the team to adopt a pulsed light system that was previously used to process semiconductor materials for transistors and solar cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carbon-based organic micropollutants in water can be removed by treatment with high-intensity pulses of light in a procedure developed and demonstrated by researchers at KAUST. This photodegradation process was already known to be feasible, but its use was limited by the long treatment times it required. Luca Fortunato, Thomas Anthopoulos and colleagues have demonstrated that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}