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Have you ever seen wastewater from a factory? This usually looks very clean, thanks to wastewater treatment. Yet it may still contain many traces of drugs, pesticides, or cleaning agents. These so-called microcontaminants end up in rivers and cause damage to the environment. In the lab, Sara Feijoo Moreira and her colleagues at KU Leuven developed a method that uses ...

For the second year in a row, Ardiana Kajtazi (Ghent University) wins the 3rd place in the HPLCTube competition with her video on Analytical Tools to Help You Identify Pollutants in Water. Image credit: https://www.hplc2023-duesseldorf.com

“From a very early age, we learn that water is the most important element for life, both for humans and for the other living beings that accompany us on the planet. It is even curious that 70% of the Earth and 70% of our body is water. The supply of clean and abundant water is so essential in all areas ...

Elena Bandini (Ghent University) is the 2nd place winner of the HPLC TUBE 2022 competition with her video on Water pollution. Ardiana Kajtazi (Ghent University) is the 3rd place winner of the HPLC TUBE 2022 competition with her video Micropollutants in water.

InnovEOX Podcast #4: Endocrine Disruption assessment at Watchfrog Host: Rafael Reis Guests: Gregory Lemkine and David du Pasquier (watchfrog) Thank you for listening, and please don’t forget to subscribe!  

Our ESR#1 Sara Feijoo Moreira attended the 6th International Conference on Water, Waste and Energy Management (WWEM-22), which took place in Rome on 20-22 July 2022. In her oral presentation, Sara introduced the topic of sulfate radical-based electrochemical Advanced Oxidation Processes together with her latest experimental findings. In Sara’s words, “with the critical climate situation we are living, it was ...

The 11th SPEA conference was organized from the 6th -10th June, 2022 in the historic city of Turin, Italy. Through plenary and keynote lectures, oral presentations, poster talks and poster sessions, the aim of the four-day SPEA11 conference was to report on the most advanced research progresses in environmental photocatalysis and photochemistry, and to pave the way for future research ...

Last weekend, our ESR1 Sara Feijoo Moreira was interviewed by the Spanish newspaper “Faro de Vigo”. In the article, she had the opportunity to talk about her current research on the degradation of micropollutants via electrochemical Advanced Oxidation Processes as part of the InnovEOX project. In her own words: “The best part of the Marie Curie actions is that they encourage ...

New paper by KU Leuven and INERIS researchers Sara Feijoo Moreira, Mohammadreza Kamali, Quynh-Khoa Pham, Azziz Assoumani, François Lestremau, Deirdre Cabooter and Raf Dewil on the electrochemical oxidation of carbamazepine. Highlights • Electrochemical degradation of carbamazepine via boron-doped diamond anode was completed in 5 min. • Taguchi optimization showed that pH was the most influencing operating condition. • Optimal results ...

InnovEOX Podcast #3: Life-Cycle Assessment Hosts: Barbara Brusca and Gema Amaya Santos Guests: Andrea Paulillo and Charnett Chou Thank you for listening, and please don’t forget to subscribe!

It was a pleasure to inspire the younger generations about becoming a researcher as well as working on wastewater treatment!

On 19 December 2021, Ardiana Kajtazi (researcher in InnovEOX project) gave the oral presentation „In Silico Chromatographic Retention Time Prediction for Enhanced Identification of Unknown Micropollutants in Wastewater“ at the International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin societies 2021, Honolulu, Hawaii.

InnovEOX Podcast #2: InnovEOX Work Package 2 is about integrating photo-catalytic systems in eAOPs Hosts: Rebecca Dhawle and Agha Zeeshan Ali Guests: Prof. Jan Peter van der Hoek, Prof. Henri Spanjers and Prof. Dionissios Mantzavinos Thank you for listening, and please don’t forget to subscribe!

InnovEOX Podcast #1: Introduction to InnovEOX Hosts: Ardiana Kajtazi and Rafael Reis Guests: prof. Raf Dewil and prof. Deirdre Cabooter Thank you for listening, and please don’t forget to subscribe!

InnovEOX Network-wide training event #4 and in Leuven, 13-17 September 2021.