With more than 80% of global wastewater discharged into the environment untreated, this research provides an opportunity to turn this environmental liability into boosted productivity.
With more than 80% of global wastewater discharged into the environment untreated, this research provides an opportunity to turn this environmental liability into boosted productivity.
The team’s approach harnesses some of the contaminants in wastewater to speed up hydrogen production and overcome high contaminant loads that normally makes wastewater unusable.
The team’s latest work – which involved the University of Melbourne, Australian Synchrotron and University of New South Wales – builds on previous breakthroughs, including an innovation that rapidly removes microplastics from water using magnets and a technique boosting hydrogen production using seawater.
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The team's experimental set up of hydrogen production using partially treated wastewater. (Photo Credit: Shu Shu Zheng, RMIT University)
