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dc.contributor.authorGunaratne, Nimal
dc.contributor.authorPestana, Carlos
dc.contributor.authorSkillen, Nathan
dc.contributor.authorHui, Jianing
dc.contributor.authorRajendran, Saravanan
dc.contributor.authorEdwards, Christine
dc.contributor.authorIrvine, John Thomas Sirr
dc.contributor.authorRobertson, Peter
dc.contributor.authorLawton, Linda
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-09T00:38:55Z
dc.date.available2021-01-09T00:38:55Z
dc.date.issued2020-04
dc.identifier267283387
dc.identifier1cace93b-8546-439c-ba52-d650536b50df
dc.identifier85083090486
dc.identifier000525041900024
dc.identifier.citationGunaratne , N , Pestana , C , Skillen , N , Hui , J , Rajendran , S , Edwards , C , Irvine , J T S , Robertson , P & Lawton , L 2020 , ' ‘All in one’ photo-reactor pod containing TiO 2 coated glass beads and LEDs for continuous photocatalytic destruction of cyanotoxins in water ' , Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology , vol. 6 , no. 4 , pp. 945-950 . https://doi.org/10.1039/c9ew00711cen
dc.identifier.issn2053-1400
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-8394-3359/work/71954821
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/21252
dc.descriptionAuthors wish to thank EPSRC Global Challenges program for providing the funding for this project (Grant number EP/P029280/1). NS wishes to thank ‘Energy Pioneering Research Program (PRP)’ at QUB. JTSI and JH wish to acknowledge EPSRC Capital for Great Technologies (Grant EP/LP017008/1and EP/R02375/1).en
dc.description.abstractBlooms of blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) in water reservoirs frequently produce highly toxic secondary metabolites including microcystins which have resulted in both human and animal fatalities. To tackle this global problem, we present here a viable solution: utilising the photo-catalytic power of TiO2 immobilised on glass beads that are encased in ‘photo-reactor pods’, equipped with UV LEDs, for the photocatalytic destruction of cyanotoxins. These reactor pods are designed in such a way that they can be used continuously with the aid of a power supply to facilitate the photocatalytic process. This process could be used to address one of the Global Challenges: providing safe drinking water around the globe.
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dc.format.extent1095571
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofEnvironmental Science: Water Research & Technologyen
dc.subjectQD Chemistryen
dc.subjectDASen
dc.subjectSDG 6 - Clean Water and Sanitationen
dc.subject.lccQDen
dc.title‘All in one’ photo-reactor pod containing TiO2 coated glass beads and LEDs for continuous photocatalytic destruction of cyanotoxins in wateren
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.sponsorEPSRCen
dc.contributor.sponsorEPSRCen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Chemistryen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Designer Quantum Materialsen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. EaSTCHEMen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1039/c9ew00711c
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2021-01-09
dc.identifier.grantnumberEP/P029280/1en
dc.identifier.grantnumberEP/R023751/1en


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