Sara

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 ...

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 ...

The Young Water Professionals BeNeLux Conference (4-6 April 2022) has gathered enthusiastic professionals working on water-related topics in research, public sector and industry under the motto “At the forefront of the design, development and implementation of current change processes, IWAs activities for Young Water Professionals aim to empower the next generation of water leaders”. During this conference, our Project Coordinator ...

In this day and age, billions of people are still unacceptably lacking access to sufficient and safe water resources, including not only water needed for sanitation and hygiene services, but also drinking water. If we take a look at the numbers for 2020, 2 billion people lacked safely managed drinking water, 2.3 billion people suffered from poor basic hygiene and even up to 3.6 billion people lacked safely managed sanitation [1]. Moreover, 1 in 3 people worldwide lacked from soap and water at home, leaving them especially vulnerable to the spread of diseases such as the COVID-19 virus [2].

Despite the few days remaining until the long-awaited end of this unprecedented year, we unfortunately know that there is no magic spell that will make the COVID-19 pandemic disappear when the clock strikes midnight. We are now busy waiting for an effective worldwide vaccination campaign that will allow us to go back to our daily routines – what we used ...