Application of advanced oxidation processes and nanostructured oxide materials for the removal of pollutants from the environment, development and optimisation of instrumental techniques for efficiency monitoring

Activities within the project will include the development of new advanced oxidation processes for the removal of pollutants from the environment. Planned research could be divided in three basic parts: (i) Application of advanced oxidation processes, (ii) Synthesis and application of nanostructured materials as sorbents and heterogenous catalysts and (iii) Development and optimization of instrumental analytic techniques for studying the efficiency of the process of removal of toxic substances. The first part will include the use of DBD which will be used in pretreatment of raw water and treatment of waste water with high content of organic pollutants and toxic microelements, mostly the arsenic. Efficiency of DBD reactor will be compared with classic ozone generator. They will be both used in combination with UV photolysis, use of new type of homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts based on the nanostructured materials. The second part is related to the synthesis of new nanostructured oxide materials and their application. The third part of the research will include the development and optimization of electrochemical, spectroscopic and separation techniques for the studying of the efficiency, introduction of new type of electrochemical sensors, lowering of detection limit with spectroscopic techniques as well as the improve the efficiency of separation techniques. Results obtained in this research will be presented in international scientific journals.