{"id":199505,"date":"2024-11-15T05:25:11","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T11:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/engineers-create-self-healing-coating-to-cut-sewer-clogging-by-30"},"modified":"2024-11-15T05:25:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T11:25:11","slug":"engineers-create-self-healing-coating-to-cut-sewer-clogging-by-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/engineers-create-self-healing-coating-to-cut-sewer-clogging-by-30","title":{"rendered":"Engineers create self-healing coating to cut sewer clogging by 30%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fakpXj495C8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Fatbergs threaten sewers, but RMIT engineers have created a protective concrete coating to tackle the issue.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>This results in severe <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/photo-story\/londons-super-sewer\" rel=\"dofollow\">sewer<\/a> blockages, with data indicating that half of all blockages occur in the United States and 40% in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The annual cost of maintenance and rehabilitation for these blockages is estimated at US$25 billion in the United States and A$100 million in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>To tackle this problem, the researchers have developed zinc-enhanced polyurethane coating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fatbergs threaten sewers, but RMIT engineers have created a protective concrete coating to tackle the issue. This results in severe sewer blockages, with data indicating that half of all blockages occur in the United States and 40% in Australia. The annual cost of maintenance and rehabilitation for these blockages is estimated at US$25 billion in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199505","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\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}