{"id":137710,"date":"2022-04-04T16:02:20","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T21:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/new-laser-drilled-filter-can-remove-microplastics-from-wastewater"},"modified":"2022-04-04T16:02:20","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T21:02:20","slug":"new-laser-drilled-filter-can-remove-microplastics-from-wastewater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/new-laser-drilled-filter-can-remove-microplastics-from-wastewater","title":{"rendered":"New laser-drilled filter can remove microplastics from wastewater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-laser-drilled-filter-can-remove-microplastics-from-wastewater2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microplastics have been a persistent environmental problem, and it is now known that microplastics have permeated the terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems. Water treatment plants provide a viable solution for the removal of microplastics from the environment. However, until now, these plants have not been able to sufficiently filter out tiny microplastics in wastewater.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In the SimConDrill project, Fraunhofer ILT has joined forces with industrial partners to build a maintenance-free filter that stops microplastics in wastewater treatment. The challenge was to drill as many holes as possible, as small as possible, in a steel foil in the shortest time possible, says project manager Andrea Lanfermann.<\/p>\n<p>Fraunhofer ILT engineers used the multi-beam process \u2013 in which a matrix of identical beams is generated from a laser beam via a special optical system \u2013 with an ultrashort-pulse <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inceptivemind.com\/tag\/laser\/\">laser<\/a> (TruMicro 5,280 Femto Edition) to drill holes simultaneously with 144 beams.<\/p>\n<p>In the first test, the fine powder from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inceptivemind.com\/tag\/3D-printer\/\">3D printers<\/a> was filtered from contaminated water. The setup is now being tested in a wastewater treatment plant under real conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microplastics have been a persistent environmental problem, and it is now known that microplastics have permeated the terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems. Water treatment plants provide a viable solution for the removal of microplastics from the environment. However, until now, these plants have not been able to sufficiently filter out tiny microplastics in wastewater. In [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137710","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\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}